“The faculty said, ‘lets just take a vote,” Altshuler said.
The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of reverting the name back to the GSD. Altshuler was quick to point out that the school’s identity issues are under control.
“We are not shredding stationery,” Altshuler said. “There is no emergency here. People who like the stationery are free to use it up, then we will move gradually to revise any of our documents.”
Not everyone took to the stationery to begin with.
“I’ve heard there are caches of old stationery lying around somewhere, which I plan to find and use,” Crawford wrote.
—Staff Writer Sarah E.F. Milov can be reached at milov@fas.harvard.edu