{"id":592,"date":"2016-05-16T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hr1981.org\/?p=592"},"modified":"2016-05-16T14:07:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T18:07:07","slug":"psa-last-chance-to-vote-in-crucial-overseers-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Last chance to vote in crucial Overseers election."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>REMINDER: Ballots must be RECEIVED in Cambridge by noon on May\u00a020.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The HAA Nominating Committee developed a slate of\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/elections-2016\">candidates<\/a><\/u>\u00a0for the Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Directors. \u00a0As you may know, in addition to the HAA-nominated slate,\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2016\/02\/petitioners-challenge-harvard-governance\">five petition candidates qualified for ballot placement<\/a><\/u>\u00a0in the Board of Overseers election.<\/p>\n<p>Please read more about how their positions challenge Harvard&#8217;s current college tuition and admissions practices in\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/2016\/03\/contested-harvard-overseer-election-begins\">this Harvard Magazine article<\/a><\/u>. The article includes a letter from five past Board of Overseers presidents sharing their concerns about the petition candidate platform.\u00a0 See also this Crimson\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2016\/1\/26\/staff-tuition-overseers\/\">editorial<\/a><\/u>\u00a0and the website of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diverseharvard.org\/\">Coalition for a Diverse Harvard<\/a>\u00a0for more info.<\/p>\n<p>Please vote for a full slate (five Overseers, six HAA Directors).\u00a0 If you have questions, the\u00a0<u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/haa-elections-faq\">elections FAQ<\/a><\/u>\u00a0may be helpful.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: Please <a href=\"mailto:Webmaster@HR1981.com?subject=WebmasterWebQuery\">let us know<\/a> if there are better summaries of the controversy over this election, or ones that represent other important points of view.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REMINDER: Ballots must be RECEIVED in Cambridge by noon on May\u00a020. The HAA Nominating Committee developed a slate of\u00a0candidates\u00a0for the Board of Overseers and HAA Elected Directors. \u00a0As you may know, in addition to the HAA-nominated slate,\u00a0five petition candidates qualified &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/?p=592\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-35th-reunion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":595,"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr1981.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}