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Such accountability, as well as more transparency and oversight, can be achieved through converting the HCC into a democratic body. A democratic process will encourage student polling and campus-wide research before multi-thousand dollar projects are undertaken. We disagree with McCambridge, who in response to criticisms that the HCC should have polled prior to pursuing Wyclef, only replied that, “It hadn’t been done before.” Instead, the HCC opted to survey student interest based on anecdotal evidence and informal chats. It comes as little surprise that the HCC failed to satisfy...
That being said, the HCC has clearly and egregiously failed at its mandate twice in as many tries over the last six months. Moreover, on both occasions the event fell apart in the immediate run-up to the concert. While we realize that the nature of both cancellations were completely different—external obstacles clearly contributed to last spring’s Snoop Dogg debacle—both instances still cost the UC thousands of student dollars. Not only was close to $40,000 wasted for both Wyclef and Snoop, it is even more upsetting because the UC?...
Both UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and Vice President Clay T. Capp ’06 guaranteed Tuesday night that the council would examine the HCC and its role in the most recent debacle. “On one hand, it’s all on the table,” said Capp. The Harvard community should pressure Capp to put his money—actually, his constituent’s money—where his mouth is and call for a complete overhaul of the HCC. In particular, we believe that the UC should institute...
...present, the HCC is an insular and self-preserving arm of the UC. The outgoing Chairman picks his or her successor upon vacating the office. Unimpressively, the most recent watershed reform to the HCC was the election of commission members by the UC. Under this system, no member of the HCC is even marginally accountable to the student body in any meaningful...
...some Crimson article” from 2004 as research that reported student’s top musical choice to be Wyclef. In actuality, the March 8, 2004 article, “Wyclef Voted Top Choice for Concert,” covered a UC-representative-only vote on an HCC-written list of potential performers for the spring 2004 concert. That McCambridge attempted to pass this off as a student referendum is further proof that the HCC needs a higher-degree of accountability...