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Last spring, we admonished former UC President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 for his zealous attempts to raise students’ annual termbill fee 114 percent on the grounds that the UC had yet to prove the need or the capacity to warrant such a considerable hike in the council’s budget. But, we were hesitantly optimistic. Our words: “A substantial increase in the council’s budget might be warranted. More money would allow the council to organize bigger and better campus-wide events, bring top name bands to perform more...
...Harvard doubled its investment in PetroChina, a company accused of having ties to the dictatorship in Sudan, Terry and former UC president Matthew W. Mahan ’05 founded Senior Gift Plus to protest the University’s “lack of conscience.” Though Terry was no longer president of the BMF, having passed the role onto Kwame Owusu-Kesse ’06, the organization stood behind its former leader’s convictions. BMF joined with the other black organizations on campus and formed a strong black presence at the silent protests...
...meantime, the registration date for the LSATs came and went, but the now-bearded Mahan had made a firm decision to hold off on law school...
...immersed himself in the curricular review and his thesis and applied for the Rockefeller Fellowship so he could travel to Peru after graduation. Mahan, one of only five seniors to receive the grant, says he hopes to “find [himself],” most likely working in agriculture and reading in his spare time...
Today, the liberated Matt Mahan revels in his newly uncertain future. After he gets home from Peru, he plans work for Teach For America, a program which places recent graduates in under-funded urban-area classrooms. After that, the slate is blank...