Word: mahan
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Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 supported an amendment to the position paper which said that the Council did not expect the libraries, which petitioned for more money at Tuesday’s faculty meeting, to sacrifice adequate funding to make Lamont a 24-hour facility...
...minutiae of Undergraduate Council restructuring is not exciting. But we are glad to see outgoing Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and the incoming council leadership hashing out a new vision for the structure of the council; it is about time someone took a crack at streamlining the day-to-day functioning of the undergraduate representative body, and Mahan’s presentation to the council on Sunday is a good first step...
...issues that need to be addressed more fully, the restructuring proposals on the table generally sound solid. Under the plan Mahan proposed on Sunday, the council would become more decentralized; decisions made by the Finance Committee (FiCom), which is in charge of distributing funding to student groups, would no longer need approval by the general council. A new Grants Committee would have complete control over the grants process, making approval much more streamlined because committee decisions would no longer be subject to wasteful and unnecessary parliamentary debate in the general council. In addition, the plan to give this new Grants...
...council must also carefully consider how to change the way council members are elected. As Mahan implied in his presentation, if plans to decentralize the council come to fruition, general council elections no longer make sense; membership on the general council will not matter as much as membership on specific committees. Harvard undergraduates should expect that their representatives are able to do what they campaigned to do—on the proposed grants branch, social branch or advocacy branch—not elect representatives who are shoved onto committees for which they did not campaign and may not be qualified...
Given a great deal of time and effort, the Undergraduate Council can have solid, meaningful reform enacted before the summer. We hope incoming Council President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 builds on the strong start Mahan has provided over the course of the next semester...