Word: openings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN President Bok last spring asked all upperclass students to fill out a questionnaire about Harvard life, students and officials said the results would probably shape the College's agenda for the next few years. At that time, officials said they would hold an open forum to discuss the survey once the findings were tabulated. "The results will be made available in a public forum late in the spring," wrote Bok in a cover letter to the questionnaire...
...there is no hope in sight that the administration will keep its promise of an open meeting. At a session of the Committee on College Life earlier this semester, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 said he did not think a forum in Sanders Theater would be a good idea. But he added that if students said they wanted the meeting, an agreement could be worked...
THUS far, no one has asked for it--not the council members involved in the committees, nor the faculty, nor the administration. The Undergraduate Council has not called for an open meeting and has not even discussed the results in its meetings...
Harvard has let down its students by not releasing the rest of the survey results and by backing down on an open forum. It is too late for the approximately 720 seniors who answered the questionnaire to get the forum they were promised. But it is not too late for the rest of the students. The University should hold a meeting at which all information can be discussed...
SECURITY for the Science Center, which is open to the public 24 hours a day, is all too lax. A guard is usually sitting at the first floor elevator after 5 p.m. But a student told me that even the night following Wednesday's rape, the guard did not even ask for identification. In fact, the guard did not even bother to look up from his book, and only muttered, "Sign in," according to the student. The student could have easily penned any name into the log. And during the evenings, the doors to the stairs are often left unlocked...