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...word position paper documenting their proposed calendar changes. A UC-sponsored undergraduate referendum on calendar reform followed, in which 84 percent of the 3,467 students who participated voted in favor of the Council’s proposal. The UC plan drew heavily upon that of the Verba report, but it did not endorse a J-term—instead citing language from the earlier report providing for an alternate configuration...
...Verba oversaw the creation of a formidable digital infrastructure for the libraries, a book preservation program, and a massive storage facility...
...Sidney Verba ’53 led a busy triple life over more than three decades at Harvard...
...Public policy professor Robert D. Putnam calls Verba “probably the leading political scientist in the world in the second half of the 20th century...
...Verba also served as the go-to man for dealing with many hot-button Harvard topics, responding to contoversies over ROTC, the calendar, and faculty hiring, and mending fences after Lawrence H. Summers’ presidency...