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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Last night at the Undergraduate Council??€™s final meeting of the year, the council confirmed the Harvard Concert Commission’s (HCC) choice of Dispatch, an up-and-coming Boston band, to perform in Sanders Theater some time next fall...
...added that HCC’s ongoing fundraising effort will continue over the summer and will include cultivating a possible sponsorship from the sportsdrink company Redbull. The money for the Dispatch concert, however, is already within the council??€™s possesion according...
...heart of the problem, it seems, is that there is very little incentive for any one person to take the full responsibility for the Undergraduate Council??€™s publicity. Being publicity chair, at Harvard or at your high school student council, is a job without glory. And particularly in a place like Harvard, where value is often placed on holding executive level positions, being in charge of publicity just seems sort of lame...
...should the council go about improving its non-existent PR department? First, and most importantly, the council needs a true publicity maven—someone who would want to take on the challenge and would head up publicity for all of the council??€™s events and initiatives. To make this type of position desirable, the council should create an additional spot on its executive committee for the chief of publicity. Doing so would lend some prestige and weight to the person’s role...
What’s more, the council should form an additional committee for publicity to be chaired by this PR maven. First-year representatives should be required to serve on the publicity committee before being assigned to one of the council??€™s other activities or initiatives-focused committees. Requiring first-years to serve on the committee not only ensures a certain number of bodies to make postering runs and the such, but it also gives those first-years a chance to cut their teeth on council business and impress the higher-ups. That is to say, there?...