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...Adam aren’t your average UC politicos; both came to the UC after years of effective leadership in other organizations, and both remain active in other student organizations on campus. Tom started an Internet sports company, Soccernet.com, which he sold to Associated Newspapers, who later sold it to ESPN for $40 million. He went on to raise $9 million from venture capitalists in 2001 to start an online education company, Schoolsnet.com, which is the top resource for educators in the United Kingdom. At Harvard, Tom started the successful Swipe for Darfur campaign and has launched CrimsonReading.org, an extraordinary...
...Adam don’t merely have a solid record: they have innovative and practical ideas to make the UC work—not for political résumés, but for students...
...will more aggressively utilize the campus newsmedia, rallies, petitions, op-eds, town hall meetings, surveys, and popular referenda to get students’ voices heard. We’ve wasted enough paper on reports with no results—the UC needs active advocacy, and Tom and Adam know how to make it happen...
...shouldn’t have to rely on the generosity of College administrators to get things done. Tom and Adam have a plan in hand to deliver more online coursepacks and other useful services to students, bypassing the Byzantine University bureaucracy. If the administrators won’t do it, students can. For example, instead of passing a position paper about cheaper textbooks, Tom started CrimsonReading.org. The New UC won’t ask for a better student life at the College—it will open up to students and make it happen...
Above all, Tom and Adam believe that the UC needs real direction, and we couldn’t agree more. The Council has suffered from an identity crisis, an organizational schizophrenia, lacking a particular mission or vision to drive its existence. There is no coherent legislative agenda on the UC right now, but in the New UC, there will...