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Harvard has the ability to neglect student opinions because of three factors. Students coming to Harvard made their choices for many reasons, the dominant being the opportunities offered by Harvard. Harvard's attention to student input is not relevant to most incoming students, and information on it may be hard to gather. College choice is apt to be "sticky": transfers are available only in the first and second year of college, and are hard to manage. Thus college choices tend to be irreversible, and the competition between schools is not expected to behave as a free market after the senior...
However, students input should be relevant to public service at Harvard. Harvard may engage in public service for altruistic reasons. It may also conduct public service to gain legitimacy in the community. Such legitimacy gives Harvard more room to negotiate settlements with the community in matters where Harvard and the community disagree. In order for one to be a legitimate member of the community, one has certain responsibilities. For Harvard, these responsibilities involve primarily its public service programs...
Members of PBHA have said that the administration did not adequately consider student input in choosing Kidd over long time PBH Executive Director Greg A. Johnson '72 Kidd. in fact, was the last choice of many students (including Ehrlich) who interviewed the four finalists for the new post. A rally on December 7 drew about 700 students and a multitude of community leaders in support of PBHA's stance against the administration...
...other, we contend that Harvard's mission includes incorporating student input and recognizing a responsibility to communities around Harvard as an institution. Even laying this aside, we furthermore argue that the College should have the dignity to carry forth its mission of veritas and not lie to its students and employees. The history of bureaucratic bungling of Core reform, calendar reform, House advising systems, and House randomization all illustrate this larger pattern of administrative deception. This history insults our intelligence...
...other physical changes will be made to the commons in anticipation of the grand opening, Engel said, although officials have been evaluating student input...