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...easy to forget that the jovial Mike Huckabee is campaigning as a Christian-right candidate. But his latest TV ad is a pretty good reminder. The words Christian Leader flash across the screen while Huckabee explains that "faith doesn't just influence me, it really defines me. I don't have to wake up every day wondering, 'What do I need to believe?'" He also exhorts religious conservatives to "live or die" by the belief that life starts at conception. Evangelical support has led to a recent Huckabee surge in Iowa, and this ad could boost those numbers further...
Thankfully, reform may be underway. Last week, Interim Dean of the College David Pilbeam announced the creation a committee to consider Ad Board reform, bringing the call made last spring for Ad Board reform from former-Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to fruition. But as progressive as this may sound, it seems that the Dean Pilbeam has already reinforced the status quo of Ad Board opacity: he named only three anonymous faculty members and no students to the committee. Without undergraduate representation, this committee cannot legitimately purport to reform the Ad Board, an organization...
Legitimate student involvement is especially important for the review of the Ad Board. Ironically, though the Ad Board makes decisions that directly affect student life, it fosters insular secrecy. The Ad Board considers all its cases in closed sessions, and even students who are being Ad Boarded are frequently confused about their cases. Students see and experience frustrations with the Ad Board and its lack of transparency that administrators and faculty may not even fully realize...
...reform occurs in a mysterious vacuum, removed from students whose interests reformers claim to be considering, it will never be able to legitimately address the Ad Board’s weaknesses, nor the criticism against its secrecy. Even if one feels that students should not be on the Ad Board itself due to privacy reasons—a view with which we disagree—such concerns do not apply to the reform committee. There is thus no defensible reason to exclude students from the committee...
...Ad Board, its processes, and its transparency are a pressing concern to undergraduates. Though Harvard may not be a democracy, students should have a voice on issues that so seriously impact them. The College’s attention to this concern is crucial to build unity and trust between the administration and the students. Dean Pilbeam should recognize this by including students on the currently ridiculously secretive Ad Board reform committee...