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...roommate, Brian S. Gillis ’07-’08, constantly talks about the Undergraduate Council (UC) and what needs to be done to fix it. His passion for this stuff is amazing—he is always telling us about his great idea, the Gillis UC Reform Act. Based on both the strengths and shortcomings of the UC that are cited by both UC outsiders and insiders, I strongly believe that the Gillis UC Reform Act that Brian is proposing is uniquely equipped to fix the UC’s problems while preserving its strengths. Brian?...
...fix these problems, Brian and Morgan propose a new, comprehensive Harvard undergraduate student government that, while not eliminating the UC, will reassign many of its current duties to other separately selected councils and committees. Under this plan, the current UC would be one of four branches of the greater undergraduate student government, and each body would specialize in its own area—advocacy, events, grants, basic services. After talking with Brian, I am convinced separating different tasks will fix the current flaws. But don’t trust me—check out Brian’s extensive explanation...
...open itself up to competition—hello there, legacy admissions!—and I’m thus wary of those who argue that our society is already a meritocratic paradise. I’m also extremely wary of those who claim that the best way to fix this is to engage in a sort of therapeutic racism that, inevitably, is forced to decide who among the minorities is a “deserving” minority and who is an “over-represented” one. In theory, admissions should be done the way many...
...Patching the Safety Net A series of clinic visits by one patient made me realize just how broken the current health care system is ? and what can be done to fix...
...number as statistics might suggest. In addition to external factors, each individual has his or her own internal comfort level with risk-taking. Some are daring while others are cautious by nature. And still others are fatalists who may believe that a higher power devises mortality schedules that fix a predetermined time when our number is up. Consequently, any single measurement assigned to the risk of driving a car is bound to be only the roughest sort of benchmark. Adams cites as an example the statistical fact that a young man is 100 times more likely to be involved...