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With the council’s reputation as a hotbed of political machinations, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the only ticket with a straightforward, consistent platform is the comparative outsiders, Grimeland and Hadfield. This refreshing lack of entrenchment almost outweighs their disconcerting dearth of council know-how—if only their proposals were bound by the limits of pragmatic reason...
...Czar”—the administration has been making strides towards institutionalizing social planning. Though the UC and administration have increasingly worked together on events—including the recent pep rally—many say that the relationship has at times been strained by a lack of communication.Even the specific relationship that the Campus Life Fellow position should have with the UC has remained ambiguous.“I do think that he was there to work with the UC but it wasn’t clear on both sides what the relationship was going...
...city manager to examine whether it was legal for the City Council to pay for an outside audit of the School Department. Currently, Cambridge schools submit both to internal audits and to outside audits that the system pays for. Galluccio’s order expressed a “lack of confidence” in the current system, stemming from, in part, a 1.2 percent surplus in last year’s schools budget that went initially undetected. “I believe after 12 years that I’m entitled to ask a legal question...
...which requires minors to notify their parents and wait 48 hours before having an abortion. The law does not provide an exception for the health of the mother, but instead an exception that allows a woman to have an abortion only if her life is at risk. The lack of an exception regarding the health of the mother is simply unacceptable, and unnecessarily puts young women in danger. Planned Parenthood is right to argue that a doctor should be allowed to decide whether an abortion is necessary to protect the health of the mother, and the doctor should not have...
...military service.Grimeland says he would excuse himself from the service if he were elected and Hadfield adds that other UC members, including Voith, have faced expulsion hearings in the past. In addition to skeptics within the UC, several Harvard students may question Hadfield and Grimeland’s lack of Council experience. Hadfield views this as an advantage. “The current UC is disconnected from the student body. It will take outside experience to reconnect them,” he says.Grimeland echoes his running mate, adding that current UC members have already been given the opportunity to change...