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...Following a Sunday council meeting, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the primary advocate of the proposal, said that “unlike any other time in the last 50 or 60 years when students have been talking about this issue, this is a time when change can and will happen if this referendum goes through...
...referendum, accessible at uc.fas.harvard.edu, will gauge student sentiment on a new version of the academic calendar endorsed by the UC earlier this month. A successful referendum would represent an advocacy tool for Petersen, who is urging Harvard’s governing boards to change the calendar...
...final decision on the calendar will fall to the seven-member Harvard Corporation—the University’s top governing board—as well as to the alumni-elected Board of Overseers. Petersen sent a letter to the Corporation last week urging them to revisit the calendar...
...same time, Petersen says, he is hoping to bolster his case by gaining backing from professors...
...Petersen can count Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 as a key supporter of his push. Gross said in an interview Friday that he hoped the UC’s calendar campaign “got the attention of the president and Corporation...