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...recent petition by students at the Kennedy School for Government (KSG) against the selection of Mass. Gov. W. Mitt Romney as commencement speaker raises valid issues of student involvement in commencement day activities. But the petition’s demand—that Romney should not speak—is simply a partisan effort against a conservative leader that should not influence the administration to change this year’s speaker...
...best suited in deciding who embodies the knowledge they have gained and leads the career they hope to emulate. At commencement, students should get to hear a speaker with whom they are comfortable and from whom they can learn. The decision of Joseph McCarthy, senior associate dean at the KSG, to discuss with the student government future student involvement in the selection process is praiseworthy...
...wealthy criminals, many of whom have donated to institutions of higher education. Seton Hall University has buildings named for Dennis Kozlowski, Frank Walsh and Robert Brennan, known more for committing major corporate crimes than for their generosity. At Harvard, a significant portion of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) is housed in a building named for A. Alfred Taubman, the former chairman of Sotheby’s who went to jail last April after being convicted of a price fixing scheme that involved vast sums. It is an embarrassment that the facility of our school for ‘good...
...students, community members, Harvard administrators and alums, officially approved Corbin's selection. A subset of this committee— made up of the current and past PBHA student president and vice presidents, Dean of Public Service Judith Kidd and Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management at the KSG and PBHA trustee Mary Jo Bane—narrowed the candidates down and made their final decision on April...
...people haven’t heard of him and he hasn’t given them a reason to hear of him,” said Stephen L. Rabin, the petition author and a first-year student at KSG. He added that the school should “choose to honor someone with a universal message...