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Under the current system, students have the opportunity to choose the professors who could best speak on their behalf??a luxury no longer afforded, given the changes. Whereas many colleges base PBK elections solely on grades, the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter prides itself on looking more holistically at students. Indeed, the current election system allows professors who know students well to make informed, nuanced recommendations. However, the new rules give this power to the directors of studies, who may not know each candidate well enough to have a firm basis for judgment...
University spokesman Kevin Galvin—who answered questions by e-mail on Hyman’s behalf??wrote that it is “too early” to rule out whether some libraries may close as a result of restructuring...
...Environmental sustainability and reversing catastrophic climate change may very well be the most crucial challenges of our generation. But the public-relations campaign the University is waging on its behalf??and the imperious impositions on the most mundane aspects of everyday life that such green activism forebodes—seems to be most excessive...
...front of the board. Currently there are no students on the 35-member panel, and those students called before the board are allowed only voiceless “advocates”—FAS affiliates who may be present but may not speak on the students’ behalf??as outside support...
However, the vast majority of spending is not going to victims themselves and is instead being spent “on their behalf?? by officials who are confident that they know best. This gravy train—more than twice the inflation-adjusted size of the Marshall Plan—will please politicians (and their friends) but won’t actually help victims. Instead, the government should directly give victims money, allowing them to escape or rebuild the Gulf Coast as they see fit. The government should give victims vouchers and let the private market supply housing...