For the 30-member Harvard Board of Overseers, that is.

Together with legal journalist Stuart Taylor, physicist Stephen Hsu, software developer Ron Unz, and Asian-American Legal Foundation co-founder Lee Cheng, Nader is running on an insurgent slate that is calling for two major changes in Harvard policy: (1) ending the secrecy cloaking Harvard’s admissions system, including what appears to be its discrimination against Asian-American applicants; and (2) abolishing undergraduate tuition.

Ballots were mailed last week to Harvard degree-holders. Instead of tossing your ballot in the trash (as I usually do), I encourage those of you eligible to vote to read more about the candidates’ “Free Harvard/Fair Harvard” platform and to consider voting for the insurgent slate. As Taylor writes (emphasis added):

Given Harvard’s leadership role, we believe that salutary policy changes there would spur other universities to follow suit and might pressure the many colleges that cannot afford to abolish tuition to reduce it by cutting bureaucratic fat that does more harm than good. My proposal to people who are skeptical of our platform is: Wouldn’t it be worth having at least a few members of this board who will not simply be loyal champions of Harvard’s current leadership and status quo?