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...promote public service, a move that conveyed student resentment at what many considered the administration’s unilateral decision to eliminate the position of Director of Public Service.“There was zero communication from the administration,” said Student Government President Benjamin M. Polk at the time. “It illustrated this lack of engagement between student leaders and major decisions at the Kennedy School that I think students need to have some sort of representation in.”The resolution also asked that Ellwood reconvene the Dean’s Committee...
...Shafrin’s penalty was to replace his Sunny Delight prop with the real deal and then drink the entire gallon on stage. W. Brian C. Polk ’09, who plays frat boy Brometheus, had to eat a full pizza and a large bag of Funyuns on stage. Thankfully, all the singing and dancing burned off the extra calories...
...student Benjamin M. Polk said he thought the increase was important for the Kennedy School, “This is an unequivocally positive sign that the Kennedy School has made itself an unbelievably important institution,” he said...
...departure of four prominent Kennedy School professors—John P. Holdren, Jeffrey B. Liebman, Lawrence H. Summers, and Samantha Power—resulted in the cancellation of three spring term classes. The trimming of the course list has disappointed many students, according to student government President Benjamin M. Polk, who said that some students are now being forced to take their third and fourth-choice classes. Polk said Kennedy School administrators did not officially notify students of professors’ departures, leaving students to find out through the news media. “Some of the frustration students feel...
When he’s not acting in Hasty Pudding burlesques, you might find W. Brian Polk hanging out with his pals from the improv group On Thin Ice or performing in comic operas with the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players; he’s also been spotted performing in several Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club shows. Polk—actor, singer, writer—has contributed an enormous amount of his time at Harvard to the arts. For Polk, theater isn’t just a passion; it’s an incredible community. The San Diego native first found...