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...left out when it comes to decision-making, and when advisory committees or town hall meetings are assembled, their recommendations are frequently ignored. The consequence is that many potential advocates for campus change turn to other, more satisfying extracurricular pursuits—over 50 freshmen ran for the Undergraduate Council this fall, but in three of the 12 upperclass houses, the races were uncontested. Why waste four years of intellectual freedom butting your head against a brick wall when you could be directing a play or coordinating an inner-city education program? There’s certainly nothing wrong with...
...women is reaching the final frontier: the dorm room.In March, the student-faculty Committee on House Life moved to create a task force that would establish College-wide guidelines facilitating mixed-sex rooming.The catalyst for this change is Eric I. Kouskalis ’07, the Undergraduate Council (UC) representative from Currier House who brought the co-ed rooming issue to the front and center of the council’s agenda.By a 31-to-1 margin, the council backed Kouskalis’ five-page position paper proclaiming “the right of every student to live with roommates...
...with one’s extracurricular activity of choice, and for the campus, it means the occasional school-wide event. The latter three incarnations all saw, by and large, improvements this year as the College dean’s office, the president’s office, and the Undergraduate Council (UC) crafted a few simple but far-reaching improvements in the way that social activities are funded and planned. The results promise to continue improving what can reasonably be called an expanding “social scene” at Harvard.Perhaps the year’s greatest success sprung from...
...next year. We congratulated Dean Bundy for his oracular powers, and suggested that perhaps tuition should have risen even higher—simultaneously, of course, with scholarship aid. We approved the extension of the Lamont Library hours to midnight. But we were sorry to see that the Student Council, which usually spends much of its time agreeing with the administration, thought that extension of Lamont hours was unnecessary—just one week before Librarian Buck announced the change. It seems the Council jumped on the wrong wave of history this time and got caught in the backwash. Under...
Social space is important, but so is learning. Put the Undergraduate Council in full control of the direction of Harvard College, and we risk getting an education that is like one extended senior week—an education that forgets that if one’s peers really are the best part of a Harvard experience, that is as much a result of the qualities Harvard has brought out in them as it is a result of their inner strengths...