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...process] changed a bit, but we did it for a reason," Slichter said. By adding the Overseers, he said, "we thought we'd strengthen the input...
...cost of downloading titles was what made previous e-books prohibitively expensive. Why bother reading texts electronically if you're going to have to pay full price for each title you input? Thankfully, publishers' attitudes toward e-books have undergone a sea change. SoftBook says it will launch the new model with a shelfful of titles at 25% to 50% off. Its sister company, RocketBook, is also relaunching, with a monochrome device that will cost nothing as long as you pay $20 a month for a set number of downloads. If you're a voracious reader who doesn't care...
...Harvard Corporation, on the other hand, has shown no such respect for openness. To compensate for the structural absence of outside input, the Corporation has, in past searches, claimed to rely on informal indicators of community opinion. But these attempts are often token gestures with little real value. For example, the last presidential search committee agreed to only one face-to-face meeting with undergraduates--and that was a closed-door meeting with 15 members of the Undergraduate Council. To think that such a meeting could realistically bring the search committee close to the pulse of the student body...
...only way to ensure that the search for Harvard's 27th president includes a reasonable level of "student input" is to formally include students on the search committee. These students, entrusted with the formidable task of representing their peers, could accurately bring student concerns to the discussion table in a way no Board member alone ever could. The same applies to faculty and staff members, who have an equally vital interest in Harvard's future direction...
University President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a press release that the land will not be developed without the input of the Allston community and city officials...