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Chait said that BU’s board should consider waiting to renew its search for a new president so that the board can reform itself and show possible presidential candidates that BU has addressed its governance problems...
...supporter of the original rent control law, I twice proposed a series of City Council actions to reform the worst aspects of rent control. I said at the time that if we didn’t take action on reform, forces outside the City would do it for us. And I was correct...
...need to allow the new superintendent the time to reform our system and get the outstanding public education that we’re paying for. Meanwhile, we need to have a more transparent budget so that we know that the funding is making it to teachers and classrooms, rather than the central administration. Cambridge also needs to take advantage of Harvard and MIT’s potential as a resource, both for their expertise and their students with interest in public service...
...class on the Jacksonian Era during my sophomore year showed me how dedicated a Harvard professor could be to undergraduates. In a section that met at 9 a.m. on Fridays, Professor Gienapp kept us laughing at election cartoons and convinced us that nearly every future reform movement had its roots in the Jacksonian period. In addition, his office in the upper reaches of Robinson Hall was a haven for discussing research papers and career plans...
10/18/03—Upon returning from a day outing of the Boston chapter of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) to the Pink Floyd Laser Light Show, I was greeted by a pair of tutors in he Quincy courtyard. Again, I did not return the hello but I did expound, at length, on my theory of universal origins...