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...Some [SAC members] definitely were [satisfied with Pryor's justification], but the majority...
...mind Pryor has made the right change at the IOP--he has chosen to make the Institute a place where all students can participate in the decision making process. Furthermore, he had little option but to take action without first consulting the students on the Student Advisory Committee (SAC...
...SAC was very unlikely ever to implement that necessary change of its own volition. As a senior and a SAC member myself (until December 1), I am confident that we as a group would never have consented to democratic elections...
Three issues in particular are essential to this discussion. First, Sen. Pryor's decision means there will be more, not less, student voice and involvement at the IOP. Democratic elections and the reconstitution of SAC were necessary moves in order to increase student involvement at the Institute. Secondly, the IOP Student Advisory Committee should accept this reconstitution as part of the ongoing movement to improve the Institute. Last year the IOP staff was restructured, and now it is time for the student leadership to go through the same process. Third, although the IOP has been compared to student organizations...
Three years ago a few SAC members suggested implementing democratic elections at the IOP, but SAC as a whole rejected the idea. Furthermore, many SAC members have rightly stated that we have spent much of the past year working to make the Institute more inclusive for Harvard's undergraduates. Unfortunately, during that time period the idea of democratic elections was never once considered...