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...their requests. Otherwise, Harvard tends to follow its initially determined path, ignoring the requests and needs of students and employees. Whether disregarding the 4,000-plus signatures on the petition to change the Core, ignoring PBHA's (and other student groups') requests for increased student empowerment and decreased top-down management of student groups, or stalling on a satisfactory resolution of the HUCTW workers' contract, Harvard College has repeatedly proved that it will not respect the articulated needs of its community...
...move public service at the College since the beginning of her tenure just over a year ago. All three are harmful not only to PBHA but also to the nature of undergraduate service in its entirety. These issues are the attempted merging of different public service organizations, a top-down, staff-driven management style, and a politically-motivated reallocation of resources...
...second major trend involves the top-down, staff-driven management style the Assistant Dean has attempted to impose on PBHA. PBHA has always thrived on the groundswell of student energy created when students are given both true ownership over their programs and substantive leadership opportunities. This is in direct contradiction to the Assistant Dean's corporate approach--a hierarchical one without student or client input...
Already such top-down TV powerhouses as MSNBC and ABC Online are testing it. C-SPAN is "Webcasting" gavel-to-gavel congressional coverage. Fox TV is using it for a two-week Net trial of its 24-hour news program...
Rheingold, who has been online since there was a line to go on, has learned from other people's mistakes. He says he watched in growing dismay as the World Wide Web was put to what he views as precisely the wrong use: old-fashioned, top-down publishing. "I had a strong feeling early on that this ought to evolve into a communications medium," he says...