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Undergraduate Council member Jason L. Lurie ’05 has attempted to persuade the council to deny funding to the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) on the basis of allegedly “discriminatory activities...
...made both legal and practical arguments in support of his position that HRCF does not deserve funding. The first is the legal argument that the written constitution of HRCF is not in accordance with the official council by-laws. The second is the practical argument that HRCF is actually a discriminatory organization. Both arguments have significant flaws...
...response to the legal argument, one must realize that HRCF’s constitution is not in violation of University policy; moreover, restriction of funding to groups like HRCF is actually a violation of the second half of the Undergraduate Council’s non-discrimination policy, which states that “in adhering to this policy, the Council will not advocate the restriction of anyone’s freedom of public speech, assembly, expression, or association...
According to the HRCF constitution, anyone may attend meetings and be a member, regardless of religious beliefs. New officers are not elected, but chosen by old officers of the group, after careful consideration of the needs of the organization and the desires of the members who would like to become officers. If the constitution were altered to state that anyone could become an officer, the leadership of HRCF would continue to choose as officers only those members who agree with the principles of the organization...
Lurie, who is in his first term as a council representative, was responsible last month for the council postponing approval of funds to two student groups, the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) and the Harvard Asian Baptist Student Koinonia (HABSK...