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...foundation in May 1980, the Committee to Review College Governance—more commonly known as the Dowling committee, after Committee Chairman and Gund Professor of Neuroscience John E. Dowling ’57—issued its report in March of 1981. Among the recommendations was the creation of a centralized, representative, funded body for student government. The seed for the Undergraduate Council had been planted: the fruit that would follow is still in existence today...
...After initially denying the demands of students and faculty for the creation of an Afro-American studies concentration—instead of the creation of a committee—University administrators finally reneged on their decision on April 22, 1969 after protests by student and faculty. While this creation story is well-publicized both in Harvard history and on the Af-Am department’s Web site, what is largely obscured in the department’s history is the way these debates continued to inform the creation of the struggling department throughout the seventies and early eighties...
...responding to e-mailed questions from The Crimson, would not elaborate on the details of his announcement and declined to say whether he will propose a specific calendar or simply give his approval to the creation of a University-wide calendar. Currently, many Harvard schools run on separate calendars, making cross-registration and collaboration more difficult between faculties...
...Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard but has not reached fruition in recent years. In September 2003, then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the University's deans publicly supported a universal calendar for Harvard's schools and announced the creation of a cross-school committee to “consider and propose calendar guidelines applicable to Harvard as a whole...
...unprecedented level of student participation in theater grew it became increasingly obvious that undergrads’ interest in the dramatic arts was here to stay. In light of this, the HDC and Student Council began to clamor for the creation of a student theater to house Harvard’s dramatic productions. The inconvenience of holding plays in dining halls and other unorthodox spaces, combined with the impossibility of producing every student production in Sanders, contributed to efforts to create not only a home for Harvard theater of the time, but also for generations to come. Harvard?...