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...wasn’t always this way. In 1978, as the Core was being readied for Faculty approval, this campus was abuzz with controversy. 2,500 undergraduates signed a petition calling for more student input; a Crimson poll reported that 65 percent of students opposed the plan. Even freshman proctors issued a collective statement against the changes. This newspaper urged students “to engage in organized protest” against the Core, “for the sake of a better Harvard education and for opposing the elitist process used to formulate the proposal...
...Council should reimburse a portion of students’ termbill fees—even if it only means sending a couple of dollars to each student. The UC should not misinterpret its mandate from two years ago. At the least, it must hold a visible debate, with plenty of input from students, about where to spend the remainder of the money. If not, its databases have our campus addresses in them. We wouldn’t mind a few dollars back...
Even advising experts need advisers. Associate Dean of Advising Programs Monique Rinere will steer forward the overhaul of Harvard’s advising system this year, flanked by a bevy of advising bodies. In addition to counsel from the year-old Student Advisory Board, the dean will receive student input from “community fellows”—representatives of the Peer Advising Fellows (PAF) program who will attend monthly meetings with Rinere’s office, according to an e-mail from the program’s manager, Brooks Lambert-Sluder ’05. There...
...junior at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, said she was worried about the lack of student voice in the survey. “I have a sister who chose to attend private school and I chose to attend public school and our parents didn’t really have any input in our decisions,” she said. “It seems like you’re doing a parent survey when really parents don’t have that much time to be looking at things in-depth like this.” Ernie Paicopolos, a consultant...
Send in your top choice for the next University president, and you could win an iPod nano. The student advisory group for the University presidential search launched their official Web site yesterday, along with a survey soliciting input from students from all of the University’s schools. The survey, which will be up until Oct. 20, asks broad questions about what students like and dislike about their educational experiences at Harvard. Later questions solicit input about what challenges and strengths the University president should “build upon,” and the final question asks students...