Word: council
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...Standing Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid in Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges submitted a request to the Council for a name change to the Standing Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid in Harvard College. The Council will handle that request by e-mail later this week...
Budget increase for Undergraduate Council must come after reforms
...Sunday night the Undergraduate Council voted down a recommendation by its president Noah Z. Seton '00 to ask the Dean of the College and the Faculty for an increase in the term bill fee from $20 to $50. Last March, we encouraged students to support the council's referendum on the issue and agree to the term bill increase, conditional on the council's cutting its size. Eight months later, after poor turnout for the referendum and no sign that the council will be thinning its ranks, we cannot support Seton's recommendation. The council was right not to pass...
There is no doubt that student groups need more money. Both the proliferation of groups and the energetic work of groups new and old to maintain and enrich their programs requires increased funding, and the council is currently the best source for that money. However, the council and money are two subjects which have mixed in unfortunate and unreliable ways, and we should not turn over more money to the current council...
Because so few students voted in the last elections, the current council does not accurately represent the student body: Students do not vote for representatives, they do not turn out for referenda on issues like fee increases and they have no faith in the council to run events itself and manage its accounts. The $40,000 in council money that "reappeared" after being lost in a web of poor accounting and the endless discussions of SpringFest bands only indicate the council's inability to manage its own discretionary funds effectively...