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...traditional politico”—according to Amanda Lu ’11, who handles student group outreach for the campaign—Bowman and Hysen have garnered the support of both the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club. As of last night, the South Asian Men’s Collective, the Environmental Action Committee, and the Alaska Klub—which has endorsed the winning ticket for the past six years—had also endorsed the Bowman-Hysen ticket...
Bowman was first exposed to labor activism two years ago during the Hollywood writers’ strike. After subsequently joining the Student Labor Action Movement on campus, he helped organize demonstrations against Harvard’s layoffs. Bowman spent the last two summers in Los Angeles and Mexico City, where he assisted housekeepers and steelworkers, respectively, as they sought to unionize...
Hysen, on the other hand, is a veteran member of the UC. Having served since his freshman year, he says he rewrote the UC’s constitution last year and currently chairs the Rules Committee...
...Last semester, students raised concerns with the College administration about the lack of transparency and student input that went into the first round of budget cuts. During this time, Bowman conceived of the “Idea Bank”—the online service in which members of the College community can suggest cost-cutting ideas. Both candidates say they’d like to see greater transparency on budget cuts, which they say would foster a more democratic process...
Less than a week after she oversaw passage of an historic health care bill in the House of Representatives, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, (D-Calif.) described the difficulties of building consensus behind the controversial legislation to a packed forum at the Institute of Politics last Friday...