Word: pbha
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...answer time for the powers-that-be in Harvard's public service crowd. After a three-year debate between Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) student leaders and University administrators, the question of whether the organization will become independent from the University is closer to being answered...
...noted in my e-mail to the Cabinet on Aug. 11 (which you cite in this article), reporting is an incredibly complex topic. The nature of finding a compromise is to define what areas Harvard needs reporting from PBHA's executive director and what areas PBHA needs to effectively maintain its programs. A compromise is an ideal situation that both sides have been working on, not an "imperfection" to which one has to "capitulate...
According to the Cabinet resolution of April 30, 1997, PBHA voted for a PBHA hired-staff that would enhance our programming, and that the Board should supervise the executive director with guidelines that were helpful for mutual understanding between Harvard and PBHA. However, you quizzically claim that I moved to "retract the organization's demands. " I am not clear on what you are paraphrasing. What I did was move to accept an agreement-on which the Board of Trustees has been working diligently for the last six months-that coincide with Cabinet's demands...
Again in my Aug. 11 e-mail, which I am sure you have read with deliberate scrutiny, this agreement on the table is substantively and operationally better than the agreement signed in 1996. PBHA does have de facto control of the search process for the executive, and numerous other auspicious changes have been made, ranging from changing the composition of ex-officio university board members to provisions that-allow PBHA to manage the program support staff...
...reporting this story. When interviewed after the Board meeting, not one single comment that I made was used. Rather, you decided to rely on paraphrasing my position and actions, disregarding my direct input. I can only view insidious strategy to spin the story so my position "directly opposes" other PBHA students, and make my stance of constructive compromise seen as "capitulation. " Both acts I find completely inaccurate and reprehensible. -Michael W. Ma '98,Vice President, Phillips Brooks House Association...