Word: platforms
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...well represented in leadership positions. The discussion included a number of suggestions for improving female representation, such as providing support and guidance to women who choose to run and hosting workshops for candidates. This fall, a pilot program advised women on how to campaign, how to create a platform, and other aspects of running for the UC. “I think it is up to groups like RUS and the UC to make the UC more representative,” said Amadi P. Anene ’08, who is running for UC president and has made women?...
Thus, even though John Haddock successfully implemented the core of his campaign platform, he will not be remembered as a great UC president. Actually, he won’t be remembered...
...idea they have to improve their school is too far-fetched. Example: A guy campaigning for head of the technology committee one year ran on the platform that he wanted to get rid of as much technology as possible, according to Tsang...
...answer to the "problem" of female representation is not a problem that needs to be retroactively addressed by male members of the UC, as some candidates have suggested. This issue does not call for a position paper, legislation, or someone else’s presidential platform. It calls for people—not just men—on campus to acknowledge that sexism is not a vanished menace, but a real and subtle presence, and it demands women to speak up against displays of discrimination (as I did not, last year). Sexism is a lingering presence at Harvard, and although...
...reallocated its budget to increase the amount of money awarded to House Committees (HoCos), student groups, and the undergraduate party fund. Only two of the six presidential candidates, Brian S. Gillis ’08 and Tim R. Hwang ’08 are campaigning on structural reform platforms. Gillis advocates expanding the council’s current structure while Hwang supports dissolving all the committees. Haddock and Riley ran on a platform to remove the social programming responsibilities—at the time delegated to the council’s Campus Life Committee (CLC)—from...