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...Petersen used his brief minutes on stage to stress students’ struggles to become active decision-makers in the face of “limitations from above...
Adding a dose of campus politics to the inaugural ceremony Friday, Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 fired criticism at University administrators and called for a “new era of student citizenship” in his speech in Tercentenary Theatre...
...This process of decisions made behind closed doors, this disempowerment of students, this denial of citizenship must end now!” Petersen said, his voice rising with each phrase. His declaration was greeted with scattered hoots and applause...
...Petersen argued that students deserve a greater say in decisions that the University makes, and implied that we are oppressed by the faculty and administration. “I refuse to accept that this is a faculty and administrator’s world,” he said. Harvard students should certainly have a place at the table during the discussion of important decisions, but the final call should always rest with administrators, as does the responsibility of their decisions. The UC does have a voice in decisions made. It passes an innumerable number of resolutions, which state its official...
...Although Petersen appears to think that the College deciding not to buy alcohol for underage students amounts to oppression and denial of citizenship, this minor issue is not worth the disrespectful image of Harvard students that was projected during the ceremony. Even worse, all of the Harvard alumni and representatives from other universities have no background in the disagreements between University Hall and the UC, and were thrown in the middle of an argument over a minor issue that does not display the students here in the best light. Our student representatives should learn that moaning about denial of citizenship...