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...Bok explained his decision not to submit changes to a vote by describing calendar reform as “a University-wide question which affects everyone at the University and not a single Faculty alone...
...President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 swiftly followed the referendum results with a letter to Bok demanding an audience with the Corporation at which council representatives planned to present their proposal. While Petersen’s demand was denied, Bok soon threw his hat into the ring. Citing Verba’s committee and the UC report, he wrote in a message to the Harvard community that “it seems only appropriate and fair to offer all interested parties an opportunity to be heard so that we may have a full range of arguments and views...
...Bok said on Friday that he waited until late in his tenure as interim president to discuss calendar reform because “several precipitating events occurred late in the year,” including the completion of the general education portion of the undergraduate curricular review...
...light of these events, and the long history of debate on this issue, I felt that I could not simply do nothing but instead should actively consider the possibility,” Bok wrote in his statement...
...unclear what specific changes to the calendar Bok would propose. In April, University deans voted unanimously in favor of the Verba report; they have not weighed in publicly on the UC’s recommendations...