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...This would have led to more sophisticated electoral platforms, and consequently, more devoted representatives in all committees, rather than just one. Regrettably, it got shot down. Despite support from experienced delegates like President John S. Haddock ’07 and burly backing of the ad hoc Undergraduate Council Reform Commission (UCRC), freshmen UC representatives had a very strong role in tipping the vote against reform. Why? Because they feared that they would not have any chance of victory if there were three distinct, well, popularity contests in a House instead of a single ranked election. If all first-years...
...chairman Charles Miller suggest that he is now backing away from his earlier call for nationalized standardized testing. This is a welcome turn of events that we hope will lead to an official abandonment of the proposal and a move to more constructive approaches to higher education reform. Rather than wasting human and financial resources on the creation of more bureaucracy, the government should redirect and refocus its efforts on actually improving higher education. This can be done by further developing its financial assistance programs to enhance the accessibility of higher education to students across the nation. In the meantime...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted yesterday to revamp the life sciences program and move concentration choice to the middle of sophomore year, capping a month of curricular reform and setting the stage for an uncertain debate on the future of the Core.The extension of the concentration choice deadline, which will go into effect for next year’s freshmen, follows the secondary fields legislation approved two weeks ago in bringing the structure of the College curriculum more in line with Harvard’s peers.Empty seats early in the session left some wondering whether the requisite one-sixth...
...staff turnovers that lead to new policies tend to work best. Those that just change names don't. In the case of Reagan, the arrival of Washington fixer Kenneth Duberstein as chief of staff coincided with a push for arms control with Mikhail Gorbachev and new initiatives like welfare reform. In Carter's case, no policies really changed...
While the Senate prepares to return to the thorny issue of immigration reform next week, states are fast becoming a major battleground over the divisive issue. Earlier this week, just as Arizona's Democratic Governor Janet Napolitano vetoed a bill that would have increased criminal penalties and arrest powers over illegal immigrants, Georgia's governor, Republican Sonny Perdue, signed into law one of the nation's toughest. It includes provisions requiring residents who are seeking state social welfare benefits to prove their legal status, as well as mandating that the police check the legal status of everyone they arrest...