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Bok’s message signaled the resurrection of a debate that led to a 2004 report from a University-wide committee chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba ’53. The committee recommended coordinating the calendars across all of the University’s schools and completing the fall semester before winter break...
...Verba said that he was delighted with Bok’s decision to return to the discussion...
...It’s a very wise move on the President’s part to send a letter now,” Verba said...
...glad it’s not dead,” Harvard Law School professor Harry S. Martin ’65, who was on the Verba committee, said about the report...
...remain firmly in favor of calendar change,” Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ‘71 wrote in an e-mailed statement earlier this week. “There are pros and cons to any reform, but I think the UC proposal and the Verba report make a good case...