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Although the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) contentious meeting was adjourned before finishing the agenda last night for lack of quorum, members nearly finished passing a reform package which will significantly alter the UC’s structure and procedure...
Some have claimed that the reform would make it far more difficult for sophomores entering the Houses to get elected, but this is certainly not the case. As it stands, sophomores often beat junior and senior incumbents, and there is no evidence to suggest that the reform would alter this fact. Further, even if it were true that the reform would force sophomores to seek election to less glamorous committees, the end result would still benefit the student body. Those sophomores who were seriously dedicated to the UC and its mission would still run and serve on other committees, gaining...
...Cambridge, most of the day-to-day functioning is overseen by the City Manager, Robert W. Healy, instead of the mayor. Galluccio and Reeves emphasized that “in no way would [our] changes alter the power” of the mayor, and that increased mayoral influence was not their intention...
...school in the predominantly low-income city of Santa Ana, Calif. The first person from Century to come to Harvard, she is precisely the kind of student that the University has been targeting under the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI)—a flagship program that could drastically alter the socioeconomic makeup of the undergraduate population...
...intends to study at Cambridge University in England next fall. There he hopes to earn a master’s degree in philosophy through a program that synthesizes philosophy and literature, with which he will then pursue a career as a professor and poet. The only thing that might alter his path is his love of the circus, where he used to be a tightrope walker...