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...weeks after MIT agreed to increase its voluntary payment to Cambridge, the co-chair of the Cambridge City Council??€™s University Relations Committee said he hoped to work out a more lucrative deal with Harvard...
Critics of the wind energy fee are quick to caution against a slippery slope. This is the second straight year a referendum on optional termbill charges has passed through the student body and come under the discretionary eye of the Faculty Council??€”the first being last year’s increase in the student activities fee. It is easy to see how some might fear an eventual laundry list of termbill items with Harvard students (and their parents) doling out funding to save the pandas, free Tibet or any of a number of other causes, charitable or otherwise...
Promoting involvement in the council, by both its own members and students at large, was a promise made prominently in the platforms of all three contenders this election season. The council??€™s two new executives can fulfill this promise by pushing through plans to reform the council??€™s structure and culture in order to make House and Yard representatives more responsive to their constituents...
Perhaps I could have laughed at the situation’s silliness had I not been in a hurry. After all, if Harvard students can’t be trusted in Harvard’s buildings, who can? But all I could think of then was how the council??€™s crowning achievement of the past two years—24-hour access to every upperclass House for all undergraduates—is being silently undone entry by entry...
Council President-elect Matthew J. Glazer ’06 said he will have the council??€™s Student Affairs Committee, of which he is currently the chair, investigate the issue before he assumes his new office in February...