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...accomplishments of the council under Hyman are more than respectable: a united voice on the PBH fiasco, a united voice on the need for card-key access to different Houses and a promise for popular election of the council president...
...should be someone with whom students feel comfortable speaking and whom students believe will really listen to them. A dean of the College should be approachable. A dean of the College should not make statements that needlessly incense hundreds of people, such as his e-mailed question after the PBH rally: "Isn't [the turnout] at most fifth a of the number expected, and about half the number of students (1700) that are claimed as members of PBHA...
Having canvassed many PBH volunteers, I have found that they are nearly universally motivated by such empathy. It is important to cultivate such feelings in order to guarantee connections between Harvard students and surrounding communities. Yet there is another motivating factor for individual service which often gets neglected. "Ideologically" motivated volunteers respond to an overarching political, religious, or ethical understanding that dictates concern for the less fortunate or a desire to alter fundamental social structures. Last popular during the 1930s, ideological motivations have become less and less plausible for leaders in public service...
...understandings may develop if suitably cultivated and reinforced. However, such ideological motivation is inevitably a risky affair. On the systemic front, it risks our nonprofit status and potentially alienates volunteers. (I know that I constantly oscillated between educating and offending many of the more "moderate" volunteers at my own PBH committee). Yet, even more importantly, in our postmodern, market-driven age there are few students willing to privilege any structured account of social or economic oppression, and far fewer individuals capable of teaching...
...been following out a policy established before his tenure [but] he helped author it," Ehrlich said. "In terms of PBH, he probably had a fair amount of background...