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...When Bok sent a campus-wide e-mail to solicit thoughts on reform, making it clear that he would move on the calendar issue, Petersen was quick to credit the council’s efforts...
This has been an unprecedented year for the UC. Between the administration’s acceptance of calendar reform, universal freshman dorm swipe access, and even the hasty cancellation and reinstatement of the party fund, this has been a year that will echo throughout the history of student advocacy at Harvard like a dropped tray full of food, clattering to the floor in Annenberg...
...Like Ad Board reform and the cable television initiative, changing the calendar had been discussed fruitlessly for years before Matt and UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 were able to make it happen. Matt’s dedication to getting the job done, even when there was little glamour in his success, has continually impressed us. He spent last summer in Cambridge just to work on UC issues. Whether he was spearheading UC discount cards or stuffing envelopes to reach out to over 800 alumni, Matt’s passion and drive made last summer the most...
Even some of Chávez's allies want to put the brakes on the President's radical train. Many reform proposals, they argue, are less about empowering the people than about concentrating power in the hands of Chávez. Among the initiatives: eliminating presidential term limits; putting the now autonomous Central Bank under the President's control; and the creation of regional vice presidents. Provincial leaders like Ramón Martínez, Governor of eastern Sucre state and himself a socialist, consider the latter idea a lavish centralization of federal authority, as well as a betrayal of Ch?...
Still, despite polls that show tepid support at best for the reforms - as well as the growing anti-reform protest movement by university students, a cohort that used to be a reliable vanguard of Latin American leftism - Chávez is expected to win on Sunday. That's largely because the fiery anti-U.S. leader knows how to get out his base. His administration has politically and economically enfranchized the majority poor for perhaps the first time in Venezuela's history and he has been very skillful at whipping up that mass of his support by portraying contests like this...