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...mission was to change that. Our mission was to build a campus-wide political community. Our mission was to root out the IOP??€™s insular character and open its doors to students all across this campus. Though we failed to win the election, this mission must not be lost...
...refuse to believe this is all that the IOP can be. We sought to transform the IOP??€™s relationship to Harvard students by reorienting its relationship with student political groups. Right now, the IOP stands, more or less, as one political group among many: there’s the Harvard College Democrats (Dems), the Harvard College Republicans (HRC), Student Labor Action Movement, Harvard Right to Life, Harvard Progressive Advocacy Group, various other issue-based and ethnic groups—and then there’s the IOP. And while some overlap exists between the IOP and members...
This represents a complete failure, an outright mockery, of the IOP??€™s mission: Often the students who care most about politics on this campus are staying farthest away from the Institute of Politics. And the IOP is not just another student organization; we have a full-time staff, a former Governor as our Director, a nearly $100 million endowment, Ted Kennedy on our Board, and the prestige to get keynote speakers with five-figure appearance fees begging for the chance to speak for free...
...from most Harvard students. Much of IOP programming is determined by staff, and student influence is limited almost entirely to a small group of insiders, 20-30 unrepresentative students, for whom the IOP is really home. We set out to tear down these walls under a simple belief: the IOP??€™s resources should be at the disposal of all Harvard students, rather than the province of a narrow...
...plan was to make the IOP a home for all politically related groups on this campus. We would give them meeting space in our building, access to the copier, the code to the student office, and the freedom to walk through the IOP??€™s halls with a sense of ownership, a real sense of belonging. This basic first step would recast the IOP as the hub of a campus-wide political community—a central resource through which student groups could carry out their distinct missions. And before long, the IOP would become a true center...