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...undergraduate education, and we are grateful for their efforts. But there is much work still to be done in this campaign, and it will require the cooperation of the full Faculty—not only those dedicated few who sit on committees and attend Faculty meetings—to succeed. We hope that the Faculty at large will rise to this challenge next year...
...interaction.Regardless of the source of the problem, the University needs faculty, administrators, and students alike to work toward a cultural transformation from top to bottom. It’s time to remember that at the heart of a great university is a great college, and that undergraduate education cannot succeed without attention to undergraduates. For too long Harvard has ignored this fact. Now we’re paying the price.Stephen M. Marks ’06, an economics concentrator in Dunster House, was managing editor of The Crimson...
...school today in a speech that comes just a week after he was nominated by President Bush to serve as the next Treasury secretary, the post that Lawrence H. Summers held before becoming Harvard’s president. The Senate is widely expected to confirm Paulson, and he could succeed John W. Snow at the position as early as the beginning of July. But when students wrote down Paulson’s name last year on ballots handed out to the graduating class, they were choosing him as a representative of the private sector—not a public official...
...with these failings of the Student Assembly in mind that we view the Dowling report on student governance released earlier this month. And it is this example that makes us skeptical that a student government reconstituted along the lines suggested by the committee will ever succeed. The most striking similarity between the assembly and the Dowling proposal is that again students are placed in merely an advisory role—all their efforts can be ignored or vetoed by the Faculty and the administration. If students will remain powerless in the new system—and if, as is likely...
...things Summers brought with him from Washington D.C.—his sense of urgency and his knack for pursing the right ideas—Summers lacked the diplomatic grace of a versed politician, which proved to be fatal to his presidency. While a brusque and bold tact might succeed in an environment where politicians are scurrying for accomplishments before the next election, Summers faced faculty members with lifetime tenures who had little tolerance for his prodding ways. Perhaps one of the great ironies of Summers’ presidency will prove to be the stark contrast between his ability...