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...created two years ago after the Undergraduate Council ceded responsibility for campus-wide event planning to an independent body. The CEB was endowed with a $200,000 annual budget from University Hall to organize five or six major events each year...
Pararas said he could not comment on the group’s spending habits in terms of event planning, as the CEB has not had access to University Hall financial records for its events until this year...
...sustainable living that is realistic in its expectations of community members. Asking Harvard undergraduates to substantially reform their diets and food habits, for instance, would be a futile task, but asking them simply to forgo a tray is hardly a giant personal sacrifice. Such a simple modification of dining hall policy could have numerous benefits for both the environment and for students themselves. Not only does trayless dining eliminate greenhouse gases by reducing energy expenditure during tray-washing, but it is also likely to reduce the number of dishes HUDS washes daily, because students will refrain from taking more dishes...
...quite a triumph of logistics. The organizers just hadn't reckoned with the outpouring of exuberance of overseas Americans given an opportunity to cast off the taint of the Bush years. Democrats Abroad U.K. had booked Porchester Hall, a grand Victorian edifice built for public functions, which ought to have been roomy enough. Pop star Elton John celebrated his birthday there with a few hundred of his closest friends in 1994, and the complex has regularly accommodated large-scale awards ceremonies and posh parties. The Dems had arranged volunteers to man the registration desks, and more to serve refreshments. (Even...
Amid the cacophony of placard-wielding Clinton and Obama supporters trading slogans and insults, or just bellowing greetings to newcomers pushing into the hall, Bill Barnard pleads for attention. "Ladies and gentlemen," says the chairman of the British branch of Democrats Abroad, "we have a serious problem." To anyone unaccustomed to the rowdy caucus tradition, that statement might seem self-evident. "It's chaos," says Barbara Lewis, a 64-year-old American who has lived abroad for 37 years and, until tonight, had never cast a vote. Like the hundreds of U.S. citizens still queuing to enter the building...