Then you make a decision about which one needs to prevail, and we do the same thing. We’re trying to balance the best interest of students, faculty, staff, and as a public institution, you’re weighing all those things. The points of view are valid, and the job is to weigh them and figure out in the long run, what’s best. What I love about the University is that we do respond when issues are raised. TMD: International students began paying an additional $500 fee this semester on top of tuition, and some have voiced displeasure surrounding the transparency of why this fee was instituted and what it will be used for. Can you provide some clarity on the issue? Harper: The challenge with the international fee is that not all the needs and what the calls will be for those have been worked out. So we are in the process of trying to figure out, given these resources, how do they need to be deployed in a way that benefits international students? And so students, if I hear you right, some of them are asking, ‘What are you going to do?’ And the answer is, that’s part of the work we have to do. So some students might say, ‘Well, then why are you requiring the fee if you don’t know?’, but what we do know is that there are needs for international students that are not being met, and we want to be able to meet those needs… The services that they need that might be unique to international students, that’s how the fee is going to be used. And we are in the process, then, of deciding what’s the best use, whether it is to help with internships, whether it’s a deeper, stronger orientation program, whether it is we need to do more send-outs where we actually go to the community and prepare students better for the transition, whether or not there are things that the International Center provides that they also will need. So there is an array of services that we want to make sure we have the resources to provide, so students have a fabulous educational experience here. But this is one situation where you’re trying to do both. You’re trying to make sure that the students’ needs are met, and we don’t want the cost to be so prohibitive that students can’t come. I think the challenge is for us, the administration, is if we stay open and allow international students to participate in the process of what would make the most difference to strengthen your experience here, then I can’t have the answer to exactly where it is the money’s going to go right now… So it’s much more of a give- and-take process that we’re using. So, I’m glad we have the resources to make sure that international students have a really exciting and robust education experience. TMD: Last week, students once again participated in a Climate Strike, joining strikers across the world to demand bolder action on climate change. Last year, 10 demonstrators were arrested at the Climate Strike, and six of them just recently appeared at pre-trial for trespassing. How important is student activism to the spirit of the University, and what advice do you have for students who want to make their voices heard? Harper: I think students protesting — and for me, protest means having a voice, whether you decide to have that voice with the sign or by sitting in — I think that’s critically important that the students think about what’s important to them, think about the kind of University they want to have because this is your University, and then give voice to it. I believe the climate work and the work we need to do around climate is going to change, but it’s going to change because students are talking about and advocating for right now. Here’s where I would pivot. It’s critically important that you have an orderly structure and organization. And if the time and if you choose to speak is in a building that closes at five, say, ‘Okay, I’ll be back in the morning to speak again’. This idea that I can speak my mind anytime, all the time, anywhere in any way, that’s where I think the fault lies. It’s not in the speaking of the voice, but doing it in a way that honors other voices, too. And to be quite frank, if you want me to hear you and you want me to think about what you’re saying, then you have to think about how am I doing that, in such a way that what’s so important can be heard. Some people speak for the theater of it, and sometimes students and community members speak because they’re really trying to have another point-of-view heard… So I think the strikes are important and I think the different points of views are important. The major changes I know about have come because somebody had the courage to open their mouth. There was a time when I would have had to sit in the back of the bus… So the issue is not in speaking the voice. The issue is not in the protesting. I think sometimes the tension comes when those who are speaking or want to have a voice don’t think about what the impact of that voice is on others. None of us listen, when we’re being yelled at. Very few of us listen if we are being called names. TMD: With Winter Recruitment for fraternities and sororities beginning this year, some students have raised concerns regarding how this could create complications with finding housing. How does the University plan to help students if they find themselves without housing for the following school year due to rushing? Harper: This is an issue that comes up for students all the time, this issue of, “Will I be able to find housing?” And so last year, before we put this in place, as part of the reason we started so early, we actually had staff in the office of Fraternity and Sorority Life do some work around housing. So housing is available, it will be available up until school starts. This place is never without adequate housing. So one of the things, we have changed the signup period in the residence halls with this in mind, so we have done that. 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