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Smith, who is vice chair of the council??€™s Finance Committee, has partnered with Chapa, who is a council representative and a member of the Harvard Republican Club’s executive board...
Smith has spearheaded the implementation of the council??€™s online events calendar, served as co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered Supporters’ Alliance and currently serves as vice president of the Black Students Association. He counts a discourse with Summers regarding Faculty diversity and his role in forming a committee of student leaders on sexual violence as key accomplishments...
Darst and Simon, like the other tickets, pledge to push for increased student group funding and matching funds from the University, as well as securing space for these groups. Additionally, they said they would brink back the UC Books program and improve the council??€™s website...
There is a solution to this problem, and it lies in the Undergraduate Council. I know that many have written the council off as mostly ineffective, but it is this very loss of faith in the council by students that weakens it. The council??€™s role relative to the administration is as our lobbying group. The power of a lobbying group on any scale is that it allows those with the same underlying goals to speak with one voice. The National Rifle Association is much more powerful with Charlton Heston speaking for a million gun owners than with...
...disagreements toward a productive compromise. Only if we can enter into a dialogue with our council representatives and be informed enough to elect those that will be accountable to our views will we be justified in expecting significant results. If the administration sees that students have faith in their council??€”and provide a united voice behind them—they will take these views more seriously, and we’ll see the ideas we banter about turn into the policies that shape our campus...