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...conflict emerged while councillors discussed a $30,000 grant that Cambridge recently received “to support youth violence prevention and anti-gang initiatives” by increasing police visibility...
...LAISSEZ-FAIRE UCIn line with his vision of expanding student freedoms, Hwang says that he would institute a “laissez-faire system,” where undergraduates—not council members—would decide which student groups get UC funding.Hwang says groups would post their grants online, and students would cast their votes for which organizations should receive funding. The UC would then grant funding to groups with the most votes. “The votes [would be] a recommendation, not a constraint,” he says, although the UC would consider those votes...
...chair for College life on the UC’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC), Anene helped campaign for a women’s center and advise on changes to the Hilles building.Most recently, Anene has focused his efforts on implementing the Course-Cost Assistance Program (C-CAP), which would grant stipends to low-income students for their course books.This project has united the UC veteran with running mate De Beausset, an outsider who has worked on projects beyond Harvard’s gates.He helped found Students Taking on Poverty (STOP) last year, organizing a voter registration drive and a trip...
Goldenberg and Hadfield, who met through a mutual friend, started collaborating on UC initiatives last year, pushing to streamline the bylaws for UC grants and to open the grant process to all student groups...
Third, Tim and Alex would strip the UC of control over student group funding. It is ridiculous to allow such a small committee of members the power to decide which student groups or events are worthy of grant money. They would arrange for each Finance Committee meeting to be transcribed and the transcript published. Then, instead of having the committee vote on a grants package, the student body as a whole vote on which grants they would like to see funded. It might seem like a crazy idea, but Tim and Alex think that the students should be the ones...