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...heard from students who attended the Ivy Council conference two weekends ago. All four of the students who attended recommended that the council rejoin the organization. The Ivy Council is composed of student representatives from all of the Ivy League schools except Harvard. It is meant to be a forum for student governments to pool ideas on solving problems at their institutions...
...high turnout was dominated by students, many of them members of the Harvard Social Forum Labor Caucus, one of the event’s main organizers. Also present were representatives from the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM), the group which took over Mass. Hall—the site of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ office—in 2001 as part of the living wage campaign...
...town hall for legislators from around the globe. "Many of our problems are global--climate change, terrorism, trade. You can't solve them in one country alone," says Ury, above right, who is on the organization's board of directors. But, he adds, there had been no forum in which legislators could discuss shared problems, "no way for M.P.s to learn among themselves, no Google for politics...
...Congress. Though the group is still at what Ury calls "the level of experiments" as organizers figure out how best to harness email, web chats and intranets to serve members, several hundred lawmakers have already signed on, representing countries from Brazil to India. Nonlegislators can join a related forum, paying a fee that depends on the size of their organization. The goal: to devise common solutions to common challenges. Collective problem solving makes sense, says Dunlop, the body's secretary-general: "If you were a management consultant advising legislators, you wouldn't say, 'Divide up into 130 groups and solve...
...have “the best four years of your life”? Harvard was that place. The campus had a pulse: concerts by Busta Rhymes and Kuumba, Eleganza and the Freshman Musical, an ’80s dance in Leverett and a Black Men’s Forum party in Dunster, and Springfest. As a college, we had fun; it was the kind of weekend that goads a giddy sense of school pride, and it happened here at Harvard...