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...students that are gay, or end their policy of supporting apartheid through investments. In a sense, then, alumni are already putting on pressure, and Harvard is already conforming to what it perceives as their wishes. You—alumni of years past, and those that will become alumni after today??s ceremonies—have a great opportunity. Continue to apply pressure, but make it overt and conspicuous, like the pressure recently and effectively applied by the city government. And make it on the side of human rights and basic liberties. Write Harvard and explain to them that...
...lost semester, students have begun studying abroad in record numbers. Summers also helped establish a Chilean office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and upon his recent visit to India, indicated that a similar initiative will soon be underway in Mumbai.Summers combined his astute sense for today??s big ideas with an unprecedented dedication to undergraduate education. He suggested in his inaugural address that students at the College were being shortchanged, recalling the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Class of 1861, who asserted that “it is our task to set their minds...
...undergraduates would support.1. UC-student disconnect. Not once in my four years here have I been asked by the Undergraduate Council (UC) or by any other student organization to complete a comprehensive survey about my undergraduate experience. The College recently made me fill one out to get tickets for today??s ceremonies, but the results will never be released. No one has any idea whatsoever what undergraduates as a group think about the proposed changes to general education, or a system of staggered dining hall hours, or the appropriate allocation of funds under the UC?...
Jess R. Burkle ’06 is a veteran of the Harvard stage, but even so, he won’t feel adequately prepared when he gets behind the podium to give today??s male Ivy Oration. And that’s the way he likes it. “I have a tendency to improv in public speaking, which can sometimes lead to disastrous consequences,” says Burkle, leaning back in a chair in Quincy courtyard. “I feel like as long as I don’t make a racial slur...
...Arts and Sciences (FAS), such as the curricular review and the Faculty’s long-term growth plans. Members had become more vocal in their criticisms of the perceived failures of the central administration.In many ways, McDonald had helped build the foundation for the group that exists today??a more-permanent body that now even plans to expand after the resignation of Summers, with the potential to become one of the main players in FAS politics far into the future. “Christie had a very tough job in the fall and did a great...