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...audience member asked Rudenstine if he thought it would be possible to get the entire University to follow the same academic calendar...
Rudenstine said there are academic reasons for each school's particular calendar, joking, "Next to parking, the most difficult thing to change on campus is the calendar...
First, from personal experience in dealing with the Registrar, Dean Jewett and other administrators on this issue, I know that they required such a survey before they would even consider making such an unprecedented calendar change. Indeed, the survey enabled what this same editorial lauds as one of the "limited successes" of the year. At the time, literaly dozens of administrators, UC members and students--including Crimson editors--applauded the survey and said that such contract with constituents was precisely the way to make the UC a "truly representative body." If we had not conducted the survey, The Crimson probably...
Nonetheless, the council can claim limited successes: the UC-PBH book sale, calendar reform, and the Yale Game cookout...
Fourth, the council should trumpet its successes more. They should talk about how much money they raised for Philips Brooks House and how important calendar reform was to students. They should talk about the extracurriculars that would have had to find money elsewhere had they not received funding from the council. And they should try to make undergraduates understand that the council can only do so much since it has a very limited scope of authority compared to a municipal, state or federal government...