Unlike the Princeton University Council--which is comprised of undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and administrators--the Harvard group is as yet unrecognized by any non-student group. And Yale University has no permanent university-wide student group, although committees which include students and faculty from throughout the University have been convened from time to time, according to student government leaders.

Everybody's Got Problems

If anything has been learned from the group's meetings, it is that each school has its own problems and is hoping to use the coalition to back its fight.

John Chittick, president of the Ed School Student Association Cabinet, has repeatedly pushed for the group to act on the issue of financial aid and debt ceilings. The low debt ceilings at the Ed School relative to the rest of the University have forced students to drop out of the school, Chittick added.

Issues

Divestiture, which is a major issue at the College and the Divinity School, has not received as much attention elsewhere, and the anti-nuclear movement is less active in some of the schools than it is in others.

Although the coalition has broken quickly from the starting gate, organizational problems may soon begin to weigh it down. As one representative joked at last week's meeting: "Congratulation! We've given birth to another headache.