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...such as an "Outreach and Services Committee"—an idea which was proposed and rejected last spring. We do not know precisely how the UC ought to handle soliciting and selecting bids from third parties. It could be done by the UC’s Finance Committee (FiCom), or by a FiCom subcommittee, or by the president and vice president themselves. It is up to the UC’s newly elected leaders, Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, to determine how best to organize outsourcing, but it needs...
...these tasks is because the people who run for the UC are almost exclusively interested in advocating for a better student life. Less than 30 percent of your UC representatives who won first place in their House elections choose to serve on the UC’s finance committee (FiCom). This is the case because the administration of finances and grants is not what motivated most of them to be on the UC—advocacy is. We shouldn’t have hard working advocates where they do not belong—managing a nearly half-million dollar grant...
...Rieder, and Wimberley—are not current or former UC members. Including Goldenberg and Gillis, who joined the UC this semester, more than half of all presidential candidates have less than one semester’s experience serving in the Council. Noticeably absent from the UC tickets are FiCom chair Lori M. Adelman ’08 and SAC vice chair Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, both of whom have been active members of the UC since their freshman years. Adelman’s absence reduces the number of female candidates on this year?...
...Haddock and Riley’s term rather than call for an overhaul of the Council, according to Greenfield.A CROWDED SLATEThough the Petersen-Sundquist and Hadfield-Goldenberg pairings have come to the forefront most quickly, other candidates are also in a position to pursue the top posts.Finance Committee (FiCom) Chair and Dunster resident Lori M. Adelman ’08 says that she is “giving serious consideration to a run for UC president.”Adelman’s term as FiCom chair has been productive, notably in May when FiCom moved to grant student groups...
...entrepreneurs who want to personally contribute to the campus; students can opt in or opt out of the fee depending on their whims or financial status, but none will be turned away from a UC-funded event because of that fact. The termination or even the minimization of FiCom would threaten the variety and multitude of activities that makes Harvard what it is; the growth of FiCom’s budget can only improve on the status...