Word: hcic
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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Approximately 20 students representing undergraduate religious groups, faculty, and administrators met last night to discuss how the Harvard College Interfaith Council (HCIC) could bring together the disparate religious groups on campus...
...HCIC leaders convened the group to strategize ways the group could become a more stable and significant presence on campus. To ensure the sustainability of HCIC, Nura A. Hossainzadeh ’06, the group’s co-chair and also a Crimson editor, asked organizations to nominate official representatives to regularly attend HCIC meetings...
...HCIC Co-Chair Om L. Lala ’06 said that all official undergraduate religious organizations were represented at the meeting. He explained to the group that the four “pillars” of HCIC are to break down barriers between organizations, to expose people to other faiths, to increase networking, and to coordinate service projects...
...early months of the HCIC, which was founded last spring, the organization held discussion dinners addressing issues such as the role of religion in politics, gender roles, and notions of afterlife...
Aslihan E. Manisali ’08, a member of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS), said the Fast-A-Thon—a nationwide fast for charity that drew 500 Harvard participants—was a good example of the type of interfaith collaboration that HCIC could help foster...