Word: adding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what troubles the Ad Board is not a lack of student participation. Student grief at the institution is clearly directed—and justifiably so—at its notorious lack of transparency of process. Such intense secrecy has rendered students unable to propose meaningful suggestions to improve the board’s procedures—indeed, the mystery of the Ad Board operations has rendered even the council ignorant of the board’s workings...
...Ad Board is currently reviewing, at Chopra’s request, the potential of student membership on the Board, but Assistant Dean of the College and secretary of the Ad Board John T. O’Keefe has said directly, “I don’t think it’s the board’s top priority.” Indeed, O’Keefe is correct that such a superficial change is not a top priority; rather, a sweeping cultural change to the very nature of the Ad Board...
Students need to know how the Ad Board makes its disciplinary judgments. A demonstration of the Board’s judicial mechanism, including a mock demonstration of the process, would hugely benefit students at the College by offering an opportunity to observe all members of the Ad Board sit down, hear fake evidence and then issue a ruling in a manner that is realistic to the board’s actual proceedings...
Along with transparency, fairness in the decisions of the Ad Board is paramount—the move to a single fact finder for cases of sexual assault last year was an improvement in this realm. But judgment by a defendant’s peers may not produce more fairness in the Ad Board process. Adding token students to a board of dozens of administrators might bring to a quaint advisory capacity that helps the Ad Board nail down the reality of student life at Harvard, but their position as peers of defendants—rife with the potential of conflicts...
...Ad Board’s ability to dispense proper verdicts does not hinge on whether token students have membership within it. True change would be to demonstrate the true nature of the Ad Board’s processes—making salient reforms that remove its shroud of mystery...