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Sitting in Tercentenary Theater on that cold and wet Friday afternoon, watching the historic proceedings of President Drew G. Faust’s installation, I was embarrassed to be a Harvard student. I was ashamed because Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the purported representative of the Harvard College student body, painted a picture of Harvard College students as immature, fussy children. In his grandiose address on student citizenship, Petersen compared President Faust’s march for civil rights to his own crusade for student rights. He advised...
...only was Petersen’s mode of communicating this alleged disenfranchisement of students distasteful, but the ideals on which he makes his claims are misguided. Harvard students are truly privileged with some of the greatest opportunities of any students in the world. The sense of entitlement with which Petersen claimed students have been wronged must have made the alumni present at the ceremony truly disturbed. The image portrayed of Harvard students to the many heads of universities who look to Harvard as an example was certainly unfavorable...
...bill, which was not voted on, called for the appointment of a special referee to mediate future funding conflicts between the University and the student government. UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 called it a “compromise proposal”—but it remains to be seen whether the College will accept...
...This and the elimination of party funds both shift the social life on campus into hands of the privileged,” UC President Ryan A. Petersen ‘08 said in an interview. He argued that the requirement that the UC provide the College with receipts before being reimbursed would adversely affect student organizations such as arts groups and HoCos, which may lack the capital to fund events and then wait for a check...
...Petersen countered that McLoughlin’s proposal would amount to an “unprecedented, unacceptable” move in defiance of defiance of the UC’s constitution. The Faculty approved it in 1982, when they passed the legislation creating the UC and also the student activities fee. The UC constitution states that the UC has final control over the funds from...