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...response, the Undergraduate Government of Boston College (UGBC) Senate passed a resolution this weekend, condemning the measure and objecting to changes made without student input...
...selection of a president is many months away. But the time to act is now. The nine-member search committee—made up of the six members of the Corporation and three members of the Board of Overseers—has decided to focus on gathering student input during the next month. Before choosing a discrete list of candidates, the search committee wants to know what principles should guide their selection, and student input will play a key role in formulating those principles. Should our new president be an academician or a statesman? A bold and unilateral visionary...
...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...
Three decades later, we’ve come full circle. A six-member faculty committee produced this latest set of recommendations shrouded in secrecy, and student input was limited to two undergraduates brought in late in the process. Since its release, the draft has had more of an impact on campus paper waste than on students’ thinking, simply because nothing has been done to mobilize student opinion. There has not been another forum, no response from UC leaders, no roundtable discussions. The curricular review may be old news, but these recommendations could well be voted into reality soon...
...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...