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It was wonderful to hear from Professor Jay Harris about calendar implementation at the UC meeting on 4/6. Although the Harvard calendar has finally been reset so that students will finish exams before winter break, there is still a great deal of work to be done. Much of this work centers around the “J-term” issue, namely how best the College should structure the January time that used to be the reading and exam periods. These weeks are now open time in between the first and second semesters.
Citing space issues in the houses, the College has announced that it is not accepting any more transfer students for the next two years. This decision comes just a year after the College announced that it was slashing the number of transfer admits roughly in half -- from 75 a year to 40.
While it is true that in some years, for various reasons, the College has not accepted any transfer students (the most recent instance of this was 2003), this decision is nonetheless troubling.
Wednesday's Crimson Editorial "Illegitimate Reform" was spot-on in identifying the need to take a strong look at our current Administrative Board (Ad Board) and rightly called out the administration for continuing to operate behind closed doors without including students in the process of reviewing the student judicial board.
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The party fund controversy, for all the heat it’s generated, is really just indicative of a much larger issue here at Harvard: how to keep student voices heard on campus.