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Where their predecessors failed to generate any significant improvements in Harvard’s oft-bemoaned social scene, Chopra and Stannard-Friel promise to focus their energy on improving undergraduate social life, week in and week out. They propose an unprecedented party fund that would provide eight $50 subsidies each week to encourage students to host parties that are open to large numbers of undergraduates. While they have not finalized the details, we hope that Chopra and Stannard-Friel will emphasize parties open to entire Houses and not those for final clubs or a few friends and blockmates...
Their student services platform extends far beyond social life. Chopra and Stannard-Friel propose the implementation of e-sourcebooks, freely accessible to all students online, along with a resurrected UC Marketplace and more convenient and numerous student shuttles during holidays...
Chopra and Stannard-Friel complement these improvements in student services with intelligent and feasible improvements to student advocacy. Students often do not hear from their representatives after election, and many students do not even know even their representatives’ names. Chopra and Stannard-Friel will require that all representatives publish reports highlighting their plans and accomplishments twice each semester and plan frequent office hours in high traffic areas like brain breaks and House grills...
Within this more responsive framework, Chopra and Stannard-Friel plan to use their leverage with administrators and faculty to lobby for a joint student-faculty committee on new courses and concentrations, emulating other Ivy League schools. This committee would provide a forum in which to push for short-term curricular change and serve as the first step toward more student involvement in long-term curricular review. Chopra and Stannard-Friel will also fight for student representation on the Administrative Board to bring it a measure of transparency and fairness...
Chopra and Stannard-Friel offer a reason for optimism after a dismal year for the council, and we are impressed with both the breadth of their vision and their formidable record of proven results. Regardless of the outcome, we urge all the candidates to pursue the improvements in undergraduate life that they have advocated. But one ticket can most effectively lead the council to make these improvements. The Crimson gives Rohit Chopra and Jessica Stannard-Friel its unqualified endorsement...