Word: inputs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School students will try to interview faculty candidates for dean despite President Bok's rejection two weeks ago of student requests for formal input into the choice of a successor to Albert M. Sacks, current dean of the Law School...
...Howard, board director, said this week that if Bok is "serious about having student input, he must recognize that the student body has as much interest as anyone in who the next dean...
...private meeting with student leaders last Wednesday, Bok rejected requests for student input, including the Board of Student Advisers' for a student committee that would nominate and interview candidates for the post...
With Bok's decision, law students will have to return to writing letters, and hope Bok pays attention to them. As Marjorie president of the Law School Council, said after the meeting, "We are not going to get the input we wanted. Basically, the decision will be left to Bok." But students are not completely left out of the decision; as another student said, "I doubt Bok will choose a person he has gotten bad letters about...
Like any responsible entrepreneur, Harvard should systematically pass some of the savings that result from cost-cutting measures on to its customers. It also has the responsibility to solicit consumer input so that it can refine the product it offers. That means more than a token student or two on administrative committees. Idealistic and worn as the thought may be, the University must listen. Not only because a student might just have something valuable to say, but, more basically, because he has the right to say it. He has paid...