MAN ABOUT TOWN
Coming straight from a Government class, Glazer arrives nearly an hour late to a meeting hosted by the Coalition for an Anti-Sexist Harvard. By now, the snow is whipping around the Yard, initiating the six inches that would accumulate that night.
“I guess there are things that I don’t have to do, but I still like to. Like I go to student group meetings, and I eat at different dining halls. That stuff, it’s not necessary, but it really helps me understand what’s going on on-campus,” he says.
His friends say he can’t go anywhere without being stopped.
“It’s gotten to the point where it’s hard to have a public conversation with him because there are so many people who want to talk to him,” Golis says.
Today’s special appearance is with a mostly-female group—sitting in a circle of folding chairs in the Loker Coffee House, Glazer leans in, listening closely.
Glazer speaks up when the subject of a Women’s Center is mentioned—something the UC has been drafting position papers on for the past semester. The crowd is less than enthusiastic.
“Don’t reinvent the wheel!” one member implores in frustration.
Glazer appears unfazed and talks to some of the members after the meeting ends.
Unfortunately, the pizza was almost all gone by the time he arrived to this meeting, making it yet another day without dinner.
“Well, ironically we’re working on dining hall extension hours this week,” Glazer jokes.
But after catching a basketball game and splitting time in two UC committee meetings, Glazer opts for some late-night Felipe’s, where he frequently ends up with Chadbourne for more UC-talk. After prepping with Chadbourne for a meeting with University Hall the following morning, Glazer stays up until a modest 3:30 a.m. catching up on communications, looking over drafts of bills, and checking in with more UC members.
In a day with nine meetings, two classes, and hundreds of e-mails, Glazer hardly sounds tired.
“I mean, I think there is so much to do, and like I said, you can’t miss a day and you have to be six places at once and thinking about ten different things. But I really like what I’m doing—it’s a lot of fun,” Glazer says. “It’s great when we make progress and it’s still fun when you’re just working to make the progress. I really believe in what we’re doing, making it better,” says the UC President, without a trace of irony.
—Staff Writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu.