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...Discontent] had been simmering for a while, but this was the straw that broke the camel's back," says Eric M. Nelson '99, a Crimson editor who was one of HSF's organizers...
...significant number of council members believed that time spent debating human rights and other activist concerns excluded other issues that affect Harvard undergraduates more. HSF was formed to strengthen that position, says Nelson...
...particularly disagrees with PUCC's off-campus focus, Nelson says. He points to the example of "Pinch the Grinch," a food and clothing drive the council held last Christmas...
...council recently passed the Nelson-Grimmelmann Act to institutionalize the administrative approval process, but to this point has been a transparent ruse for administrative inaction. As the respect and concern given to students by Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and his colleagues continues to decrease exponentially, it is encouraging to see the council acting as our advocate. We urge the council to use the Nelson-Grimmelmann act often and responsibly next year, forcing the administration to go on the record about these important student issues. Lewis' decisions should be exposed to public scrutiny...
Such numbers are not just a snapshot of how we live today. To experts who understand the trajectory of childhood development, the statistics predict a grim future for American society. As Douglas Nelson, executive director of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, puts it, "It may well be that the nation cannot survive--as a decent place to live, as a world-class power or even as a democracy--with such high rates of children growing into adulthood unprepared to parent, unprepared to be productively employed and unprepared to share in mainstream aspirations...