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...first student-group leaders' summit, held two weeks ago, was important not so much because of what was accomplished (not much), but because it set a fine precedent for the future of decision-making at Harvard. We are pleased to see this new sort of cooperation on campus, in which student groups address collective concerns. Future meetings, to be convened two or three times per semester, will create a nurturing space for student leaders to share their ideas and to discuss institutional issues...
Kudos go to council President Robert M. Hyman '98 and Vice President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99--who included the student-leader summit idea in their Student Bill of Rights--and their team for helping to expand the understanding of student representation from that of provincial council politicos. When Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III or another administrator is interested in the opinion of student leaders, he or she will no longer be forced to turn to the unstable and currently unrepresentative Undergraduate Council. We couldn't be more pleased that the council has helped to undermine its own monopoly...
Perhaps the trickiest role belongs to Gephardt, the House minority leader. Clinton came back from his Little Rock economic summit in 1992 saying, "I love Dick Gephardt!" But after Gephardt opposed NAFTA and pushed Clinton away from centrist measures such as welfare reform, their interests diverged. A centrist who turned liberal when he ran for President in 1988, Gephardt has tacked back toward the center lately, promoting a distinctly moderate "families-first" agenda of baby steps such as portable pensions and health insurance for children. The two men could work together again, gluing Democratic votes to Republican moderates...
...unite the front combating AIDS, the summit's leaders called for greater communication and sharing of information among the participants to bring the issues home to their respective communities...
Although yesterday's summit attracted black leaders from academia, law, the media, medicine and religion, organizers said they were disappointed that blacks in business, entertainment and athletics were underrepresented...