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...Undergraduate Council voted yesterday to transfer authority of the Student Community Center Capital Campaign—established by the UC to raise funds for a possible student center amidst controversy last May—to the independent, undergraduate-led Student Community Center Foundation, a non-profit formed over the summer...
...legislation stipulates that the UC’s Student Initiatives Committee will select at least one UC representative to serve on the SCCF Campaign Advisory Council and that the UC President or their designee will serve as a member of a proposed Center’s Board of Directors. Furthermore, the UC Student Relations Committee may assist in publicizing the SCCF’s efforts...
...break cultural taboos against women singing in public. These days, however, her face, emblazoned on election posters and billboards across Kabul, symbolizes the shattering of new barriers: popularly elected women in politics. Last week it was announced that Tarana had been elected to the 29-seat Kabul Provincial Council (akin to a U.S. state legislature), winning with the second highest number of votes - 8,404 - out of a field of 524 candidates. "When I competed for Afghan Star, I wanted to prove that a woman from Herat could sing," says Tarana, adjusting her trademark stylish rectangular glasses. "Now that...
...despite the darkening state of affairs, a few bright sparks remain. Local elections for Afghanistan's 34 provincial councils, which have been all but overshadowed by the presidential race, have produced results that prove that Afghans not only wholeheartedly support the idea of democracy, but also that they are far more liberal and progressive than the rest of the world might suspect. Tarana, dressed in slim black trousers under a tight black coat accented with a flashy silver headscarf, compares herself with her bearded, conservative predecessors on the council. "Afghans are not like what you hear from other countries, that...
...with the presidential race, the provincial council elections have also been tainted by allegations of fraud. Still, Tarana is one of scores of young Afghans who are entering politics for the first time. Their energy, enthusiasm and youthful idealism, if channeled correctly, may yet be the impetus for the substantial changes Afghanistan will have to go through before it can develop into a stable democracy that operates under the rule of law. "In provinces throughout Afghanistan, hundreds of youths nominated themselves for provincial councils," says Sanjar Sohail, editor of the newspaper Eight in the Morning. "What does this mean? That...