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Students interested in seeing more minorities in campus theater productions met with the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) last evening to discuss ways to get a more diverse group of faces into Harvard theaters and onto the stage...
...Sunday night the Undergraduate Council voted down a recommendation by its president Noah Z. Seton '00 to ask the Dean of the College and the Faculty for an increase in the term bill fee from $20 to $50. Last March, we encouraged students to support the council's referendum on the issue and agree to the term bill increase, conditional on the council's cutting its size. Eight months later, after poor turnout for the referendum and no sign that the council will be thinning its ranks, we cannot support Seton's recommendation. The council was right not to pass...
Because so few students voted in the last elections, the current council does not accurately represent the student body: Students do not vote for representatives, they do not turn out for referenda on issues like fee increases and they have no faith in the council to run events itself and manage its accounts. The $40,000 in council money that "reappeared" after being lost in a web of poor accounting and the endless discussions of SpringFest bands only indicate the council's inability to manage its own discretionary funds effectively...
Student group funding should be just the sort of universally important issue around which the council can galvanize student support, so it is particularly unfortunate that there was such low turnout in last spring's referendum. The council was correct to hold off discussion of the term bill hike until a better, more publicized referendum of the students is executed--if students two years ago could get riled up over grapes, money out of their own pockets should be more than enough to motivate folks to vote. Only once the majority of students are shown to approve...
...Sands came to Harvard on his first recruiting trip, and it turned out to be his last. He met the players and coaches, and heard exactly what he wanted to hear...