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...Undergraduate Council often expect to endure their classmates’ ridicule and the administration’s cold shoulder. What they don’t expect to endure is several thousand dollars in personal credit card debt. Personal debt, however, is exactly the predicament that council members Trisha S. Dasgupta ’03 and Robert M. Gee ’02 currently face. In February, Dasgupta and Gee doled out $600 and $1300, respectively, in order to cover over-budget costs of a Harvard-sponsored summit of the Ivy Council—an umbrella organization for student council members...
While we can’t help but consider Dasgupta and Gee a little foolhardy for taking a leap of monetary faith in an organization that has proven itself financially and administratively irresponsible in the past, we do believe that the council should vote to reimburse them. Dasgupta and Gee were unfairly placed in the position of having to dip into their own pocketbooks or face the embarrassment of turning away speakers, starving hungry participants and watching the summit disintegrate before their eyes. The council must take responsibility for placing its own members in such a compromised position and pursue...
Newly elected Finance Committee Chair Trisha S. Dasgupta '03, one of the bill's sponsors, said the calendar will include the activities of groups to which the council gives grants...
...response, Dasgupta said that "the calendar will list student groups first and foremost. If you're having a party in your room, it won't be there. That's what the Republican party list...
...They are very eager to work with us," Dasgupta reported. "These are not difficult requests. They're things the Ivy Council should be doing anyways...