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With his four potential successors doing most of the talking over the last week, soon-to-be-former Undergraduate Council President Rohit Chopra ’04 took his turn at the podium yesterday, lecturing for 20 minutes on the council??s various deficiencies...
Chopra said that the council??s committee system is also inherently problematic because committee members are not accountable to undergraduates...
...been noted that the major work involved in many past achievements Mahan and Blickstead claim for themselves—helping to defeat Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s destructive preregistration plan last spring, securing universal keycard access for first-years and establishing the council??s popular “Dollar Movie Nights,” to name a few—might more accurately be credited to Chopra and other council members. But working on these projects has given them valuable experience on which we hope they will capitalize. Mahan and Blickstead have...
...especially worrisome in that they bear an uncomfortable resemblance to the flaws that have marred past council presidencies. Like Mahan and Blickstead, former Council President Sujean S. Lee ’03 followed a popular predecessor—Paul A. Gusmorino III ’02 had redefined the council??s relevance to student services, much as Chopra has used his term to successfully advocate for student interests. During her campaign, Lee touted many of Gusmorino’s accomplishments in a broad but directionless platform. And once she took office, Lee proved an ineffective leader...
With an armband asking “Aren’t you a Proud Member of Jason Lurie’s Merry Band of Jokesters?”—a reference to a recent editorial by The Harvard Salient calling for his impeachment from the Council??Lurie posters Yard kiosks and walls in advance of next week’s presidential vote...