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...think the Undergraduate community has spoken that they want the calendar to change,” Petersen said in an interview. “I hope this discussion can be broadened to include members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the President and Fellows of Harvard College...
Petersen's letter to Bok said there was a "near-record turnout" for the calendar referendum. The total of 3,467 students voting this week is just less than the 3,519 who participated last semester's UC presidential election, and 518 fewer than the record turnout in the December 2004 presidential vote...
...horrified that the possibility of significant calendar reform (“Vote Yes On Calendar Reform, editorial, Apr. 18) can be contemplated without a full and informed discussion in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where it is well known that a wide range of opinion obtains on this subject. That the Undergraduate Council could suggest that student opinion and a decision of the Governing Boards serve to settle this matter in favor of the Council’s own proposal fails to take into account that faculty have fully as much at stake in the calendar discussions...
There are pedagogical matters to be considered in any proposed calendar change, and these are matters that concern faculty. We should not be presented with a fait accompli, but we should insist upon a formal process of consideration and review, the same kind of quality debate that would be given to any proposed reforms in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. As it is now mid-April, and we as a faculty do not operate with the same apparent efficiency as the Undergraduate Council, the matter of calendar reform should await another academic year, a new Dean of the Faculty...
It’s early evening, four days before the vote opens on a referendum that would reform Harvard’s academic calendar, and Undergraduate Council (UC) Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09—one of the two men on campus for whom the issue represents a key campaign promise—is just hitting his stride. Sitting on a couch in the Leverett House Junior Common Room, the lanky Sundquist holds a cell phone to his ear, while conversing with a reporter to his right, and researching HPV vaccines on his laptop...