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...Council, led by Ryan A. Petersen ’08, brought the issue of calendar reform to the forefront of its agenda. Most significantly, its proposal sought to push fall semester final exams to before winter break...
...undergraduate votes cast were in favor of the proposal, and on June 6, Interim President Derek C. Bok announced that a University-wide calendar reform had been approved by Harvard’s governing boards. Petersen told The Crimson last year, “The undergraduates and the Undergraduate Council identified a problem and sought to address it, and the governing boards took our concerns seriously...
...When the UC was founded 25 years ago, a chairperson presided over Council sessions, and he or she was elected by the vote of the UC representatives. But in May 1995, the UC voted to change to a general election for a president and vice president, in which anyone can run and anyone can vote...
...Despite the organizational transformations of the past quarter-century, the function of the UC as an instigator of change has remained remarkably constant. Just as the Council responded to student demands for summer storage then, the recent UC-led effort has paved the way for the University’s calendar of the future...
...Twenty-five years after its foundation, the UC continues to evolve, and a new committee, again chaired by Dowling, is currently working on a report to address the strengths and weaknesses of today’s Council. The Committee to Examine the Role of the Student in College Governance, known informally as “Dowling II,” is set to release a report some time next year...