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Last night’s City Council meeting opened with a modern dance performance in celebration of the month of May staged in the center of the council??s meeting chamber, continued with a ceremony welcoming a visiting delegation from Mobile, Ala., and closed with Councillor Henrietta Davis reading her own poem about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose 200th birthday will be celebrated next year...
After three years durring which the Undergraduate Council??s (UC) attempts at social programming have been decidedly hit-or-miss, a College-wide social event organized by the Dean’s Office has largely succeeded for the second time in as many tries (the Harvard State Fair being the first). With the elections for the newly-created College Events Board scheduled to begin any day now, the challenge for future social planners will be making sure this pattern continues...
...conclusion of last night’s session, the UC discussed three constitutional amendments that would change the council??s structure in response to the newly-created College Events Board...
...interview Haddock insisted that the “straw poll” was aimed at gauging preliminary opinions, and that the preferences expressed at last night’s meeting would not determine the council??s final decision...
What’s at issue here is more than the UC’s inefficiency; the council??s funding policy is incoherent and inconsistent. The status quo leaves student leaders and UC members alike irritated and confused, and leaves events unfunded for apparently arbitrary reasons. The most basic issue has to do with the content of the UC’s non-discrimination provision itself. Article I, Section 4 of the UC Constitution reads: “The Council shall not discriminate, and shall discourage discrimination on the basis of ancestry, nationality, creed, philosophy, economic disadvantage, physical...