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Sure—that only 21 people actually ran for CUE spots does not per se mean that, of those who did not run, none care about educational and academic issues, or that none are interested in the CUE’s activities. But I am fairly certain that very few of the 299 out of 300 people could even report, if asked, the names of the CUE members, or what their priorities and platforms...
After all, when we deal with the CUE, we are not talking about whether or not there will be an Outkast concert in Sanders Theatre this year; we are talking about issues like whether or not there will be a Core Curriculum at Harvard. And the student members of the CUE play a very active and influential role on the committee. As Mark Schiefsky, assistant professor of the classics, recently told me: “When the CUE students speak at general FAS faculty meetings, what they say is taken very seriously...
...student body really gave a hoot about educational issues here, then things like the CUE elections would be public, and much discussed, affairs. But they are, instead, conducted in private, followed with even the slightest interest by very few, and particpated in by even fewer...
...laziness-generated opinions which it tends to produce—is only human nature, and indeed it is hard to imagine its being any other way. But it does have one very important, and not necessarily obvious, implication: when Dean Kirby, the students on the CUE, and the Harvard Faculty make important decisions about the future of academic life here, they should do so based almost entirely on their own instincts, and on however many thoughtful individual responses they receive to their solicitations of student opinion...
This spring, upperclass students will help advise first-years as they pick their concentrations, thanks to a measure approved by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) yesterday...