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...women, when they ask me about their future at Harvard?” King and Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson asked. “Do I tell them to ignore what they’ve read with their own eyes and focus instead on promises of reform...
...Macfarlane politely went through an exercise of nominating a number of issues requiring attention in order to increase supply capacity: infrastructure, skills development, welfare and tax reform, migration, and industrial relations. Although he repeatedly said such areas were "outside my area of expertise," it's disheartening that he should need to say such things at all. Four months ago the major parties fought a big-spending election, with economic management the decisive factor in John Howard's victory and scant debate about reform. From July, Howard's coalition will control the Senate and it's becoming clear that the climate...
...with the more difficult and complicated questions that prevent the IOP from fulfilling its campus-wide mission, SAC would do itself a service to remind people like me of how unfair and unrepresentative this stereotype is. That step, if combined with the already underway processes of outreach and structural reform, would go a long way to reminding the campus that politics should be and is a place for those who see the possibilities of a better world and want others to see them...
...proposed reform would not be difficult to achieve, and should be implemented as quickly as possible. Ideally, Houses would adopt these changes this year, as Houses cannot notify prospective tutors before Feb. 28. But even if this is not feasible, Houses should strive next year to work more collaboratively in the tutor selection process. Certainly, the tutor system is not the be all and end all of academic advising. Many other changes need to take place such as reviving a largely defunct student advisory system, where upperclassmen would offer recommendations to fellow students—a move that administrators...
Glazer also announced the 12 members of the UC’s newly-formed Reform Commission, which will investigate possible structural changes to the UC, first suggested by former President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 last month. Chair of the Election Commission Jon D. Einkauf ’06 will be the chair of the Commission, whose membership is divided evenly between UC and non-UC representatives...