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Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen '08 described Gross as a "friend to Harvard undergraduates," adding that those who graduated the year of his appointment as well as those who just graduated this year can "all appreciate and identify in their own lives where Dean Gross has improved Harvard College...
Gross's successes during his tenure came particularly from his efforts to work collaboratively with students, Petersen said, from the creation of the peer advising program, the Lamont Library Café, to the Cambridge Queen's Head...
...Petersen also agreed that the position of the College dean relative to other University deans tied Gross's hands: "It's unfortunate that the restrictions on his position often made it difficult for [Gross] to do even more," he said...
...Next semester, Petersen will be dealing with a new set of administrators, but his plans are no less far-reaching than they were this spring. By the end of December, he says, Petersen would like to see a reformed Administrative Board and, perhaps, the institution of an honor code. He also wants students to sit on the secretive and influential Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resources Committee...
...Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 organized a College-wide referendum in which 84 percent of the 3,467 undergraduates who participated called for the calendar to be changed. And last month, Interim President Derek C. Bok used a letter to the community to reopen the calendar debate across Harvard, signalling that he intends to make headway on the issue before handing over the reins to Drew G. Faust on July...