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...That changed in 2003, when a 26-year-old MIT graduate shocked Cambridge’s political establishment by nearly nabbing a seat on the City Council??almost entirely on the basis of student votes. Matt DeBergalis, a software engineer, canvassed dorms and dining halls at Harvard and MIT, spearheading a voter-registration drive and capturing the attention of a notoriously aloof constituency. When the dust settled, DeBergalis had come within 137 votes of election, finishing just behind the nine incumbent councillors. Students had played a larger role in the race than anyone would have expected...
...from previous years, in which the HoCos laid out money for their expenditures and were subsequently reimbursed by the UC. The UC doles out $3,500 to each HoCo per semester, which comes out to about $90,000 for the year. That sum is almost 25 percent of the council??s entire budget, which totals approximately $400,000. According to the bill passed last night, which Glazer called “one of the most liberal HoCo budgets,” this change will remove the former reimbursement process that many Houses found hard to handle. Mather House...
...which began at 12 p.m. on Wednesday, 612 tickets were sold ($16 for students, $23 for non-affiliates) from the Harvard Box Office. Considerable buzz about the performance seems to be percolating campus, so, if all continues to go well, Wyclef will have been a solid investment for the Council??s bottom-line—and a considerable investment in building student confidence.However, we still have concerns regarding the allocation of UC funding—which earmarks a portion of its yearly budget to be used at the discretion of the HCC—and the somewhat hasty...
...Faculty Council??s really trying to help move this forward. I’m sure there are a lot of differences of opinion about particular details, but we don’t want things to drag on,” Ulrich said...
...Zipser declined to comment on the content of the Council??s discussion of the survey data...