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...they're not exactly open to criticism, either. Last January, FARC guerrillas waited until an anti-Marxist priest finished saying mass in the Putumayo district, then walked up to the pulpit and shot him dead in front of his congregation. Local justice is meted out by guerrilla "people's courts" whose judges seldom have a high school diploma. And while the FARC may earn most of its revenue from taxing the cocaine trade, any guerrilla caught sampling the product is executed by his comrades...
Others suggest that the Harvard presidency's virtually unrivaled bully pulpit could pull Sullivan, Varmus and other candidates away from previous engagements...
Maybe it will help if you boost your own visibility on campus. Show that you can be the leader we've been missing. The reason the Undergraduate Council feels compelled to free Mumia is because the University's bully pulpit looks up for grabs. Please, do us all a favor, and seize it back from our button-borrowing buddies in Holworthy. Call for broad national school reform. Save the whales. Do something! And let's put the arts first more than one weekend a year; regularly attend our opening nights. I, for one, was shocked when I didn...
Second, the university president should occupy a more prominent role in setting trends for higher education. Specifically, we feel Rudenstine has not used the "bully pulpit" nature that the Harvard Presidency allows often enough. Although Rudenstine's efforts on the national stage to lobby for affirmative action and funding for university research were memorable, his immense fundraising charge did allow him to provide a coherent vision of what a college education--or at least a Harvard education--should constitute...
...rare use of his bully pulpit, Rudenstine heads a nationwide coalition of 62 university presidents calling for diversity in higher education, following the Supreme Court's Hopwood decision restricting the use of race as a factor in admission...