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...seems unreasonable for students now to complain that Sen. Pryor should have consulted SAC before making a change that will transform the IOP into an open, democratic institution. SAC would have refused the very change that will help end the favoritism and exclusion inherent in its particularly self-selecting system...
...being interested in student input, Sen. Pryor has made himself as open as possible for input from all students. He has not laid out a complete plan and does not intend to do so by himself. Rather, he has asked that all interested students come to the IOP and help create and flesh out a new system. Recognizing that it will take a great deal of time to do this, he is planning to appoint next semester's committee chairs. This is not an effort to take away student control, but an acknowledgement that it is necessary to have...
Furthermore, one major complaint from many SAC members is that it is unfair for the director and staff to demand that SAC change. However, reconstituting the IOP student leadership is merely part of a two-year transition process that has affected the entire Institute. Last year the IOP staff was restructured--some staff members were given additional tasks while some had their responsibilities diminished or changed. Overall, the staff has been restructured much to the improvement of the Institute. Now it is time for the same measures to apply...
Finally, the purpose and the status of the IOP must be clarified. The IOP is unlike other groups on campus in that it is not funded by Harvard College or the Undergraduate Council, but rather by the Kennedy Library Corporation. The members of that Corporation therefore have ultimate control over what goes on at the IOP. That students in the past have had a substantial amount of control in programming does not mean they were ever entitled to that control or that it necessarily should be extended or maintained...
...addition, the Institute has a full professional staff, with decision-making power and the ability to create and run programs, and a senior advisory board composed of Senators, House members, business leaders, journalists and other public servants. Both groups wield considerable power at the IOP, and very few other student organizations have such entities. The IOP is distinct in that its members must work with and answer to the staff and senior advisory board...