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Granting a tiny respite from the confidentiality of the presidential search, Harvard's presidential search committee has asked for letters of student input regarding our wishes for the next president. This request pokes a small chink in the closed doors of the committee's meetings and offers students an opportunity to voice opinions over the next president. Thus, we have composed a short wish-list of objectives that we would like to see undertaken by the next president. The areas that we wish to see improved fall primarily into three categories: spending on students, changes to the faculty and communication...
More important, there needs to be more student input with respect to academics, administrative decisions and decisions over student life. This communication has been decidedly lacking since the termination of an acting Dean of Students at the College, whose primary responsibility was to act as an advocate for students in the administration. The administration cannot make effective policy decisions on student life if they do not seek and heed student opinion...
Nowhere has the lack of student input in administrative decisions been more apparent than in the presidential search itself. Although the search committee has recently invited groups of students to meet with them, these meetings have been informal and provide no guarantee that student input will be used in the actual selection process. The next president should be more vocal about allowing students and faculty to participate in the choice of his successor...
Last week, the city held the first in a series of six meetings to solicit public input into the city's overarching goals. And the City Council recently mailed a survey to all the city's residents asking them to identify important city issues and to say how city services could be improved...
...Hampshire Supreme Court in the state's first impeachment trial of a judge. Brock was accused of perverting justice on several occasions--in particular when he allowed fellow justices to comment on cases from which they had been disqualified; when he allowed Justice Stephen Thayer to provide input as to who would sit on a special panel to hear Thayer's own divorce case; and when, in a 1986 phone call to a Superior Court Judge, Brock tried to influence a case she was hearing. Many New Hampshire state senators, who acted as a jury at the trial, believed that...