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...Petersen went on to organize a referendum in which 84 percent of the 3,467 undergraduates participating called for the calendar to be changed. Two weeks later, Interim President Derek C. Bok e-mailed the Harvard community to reopen a University-wide conversation on the calendar. A decision on the matter was expected Commencement week...
...calendar campaign illustrates Petersen’s bifurcated method of lobbying the administration: while raising the rhetorical ante in public, he appears to have been successful in cajoling University leaders in private...
...Ryan and his colleagues have presented the case for calendar reform in a most thoughtful and reasonable manner without threatening demonstrations, building take-overs or other pressure tactics of the kind I experienced in the early 1970s,” Bok said in an e-mailed statement. “All my encounters with them have been entirely civil and constructive...
With 2 key supporters, calendar debate is back
...Harvard’s unusual academic calendar, with fall finals falling in January and the spring term lasting well into May, has been the subject of debate and dismay for at least a generation...