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...Dorm Crew opportunities: an option detailed in the Student Organizations Handbook urging student groups to employ their members in Dorm Crew, in order to donate the wages to their organization. If this option doesn’t seem too tantalizing, it’s scarcely surprising to see that student groups accumulate debt so quickly...
...This reimbursement can take months, simply because the team lacks the money to repay its officers. And after a brief perusal of the grants listed in the Student Organizations Handbook, it becomes clear that groups that fall outside of the particular arenas of women’s issues, public service, race relations, the arts, and politics rarely qualify for assistance from the University, forcing these groups to bear the financial troubles on their...
...Committee on College Life…is mainly interested in approving student groups that can be financially and programmatically sustainable from year to year,” states the Student Organizations Handbook. But when the Mock Trial Team was recognized as a Harvard student group two years ago, Roller found he encountered little resistence in his attempt to be recognized as an organization. “From the organizations that I’m involved in, it seems pretty easy to get recognized,” he says. “You just need a few faculty sponsors?...
There’s nothing objectionable in the decision to officially recognize the central role social clubs play in Harvard’s undergraduate nightlife. At present, the groups are only mentioned in the Handbook for Students in the context of their not being recognized by the College: Students are implored to “make well-informed decisions when considering membership in these organizations,” and that’s it. It’s admirable that the College has realized that, despite warnings from administrators, students overindulge at off-campus parties frequently enough to merit more...
...report is given the green-light by the CCL and the Dean of the College, it will go to the Faculty Council for final approval. The outcome will be changes to the Handbook that, while symbolically important, have no teeth. Leaving aside the fact that most undergraduates pay as much attention to the Handbook as they do to Undergraduate Council (UC) legislation, implementing the changes would require a degree of cooperation from social clubs that far exceeds what University Hall is likely to get. The groups would be required to “provide the Office of the Dean...