Word: trust
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From a Harvard standpoint, it might not seem so odd that the College administrators have employed a closed-door process for choosing the undergraduate representatives to a new committee which will oversee the Trust. The Trust, a powerful group created in the wake of the merger, will dole out nearly $20,000 in annual funding to student groups interested in women's and gender issues...
...contrast, the students on the committee for the Ann Radcliffe Trust are being chosen in a manner which seems capricious at best and, at worst, a dangerous threat to the future of true undergraduate participation and interest in women's issues on campus. A single administrator, Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery '87, has quietly been contacting specific members of the student body with an invitation to sit on the committee. Some of these individuals are directly linked to women's groups, while others have been chosen seemingly at random...
...that these individuals will not do a good job on the committee. Many of the students might be extremely experienced or otherwise qualified for the position. Still, the fact that there has been no open application process for the positions, nor any real disclosure about how exactly the Trust will be run, is deeply troubling. Will these handpicked student representatives be voting members of the committee with equal status to the other members? Who will preside over the committee? What kind of criteria will they employ for dispensing funds...
...that the answers to some of these questions might be several months in coming. As with any new organization, there are probably many procedural details that still need to be straightened out. And we are encouraged that Harvard is interested enough in undergraduate input to appoint students to the Trust committee in the first place...
...manner in which they have conducted their business is all wrong. If the administration is truly concerned about how we feel, why don't they just ask? The dispensation of information is the best place to start; let us know exactly what the Trust is, what its goals purport to be and how it fits into the grand scheme of funding Harvard student groups. Most importantly, the Trust needs to give anyone who is truly motivated the opportunity to become involved. By appointing a select group of students, an instant wedge is driven between the representatives and the people whom...