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Here at Harvard, we tend to complain about how difficult it is to use the limited funding available to stage high-impact bonding events with widespread student appeal. In spite of differences of opinion about the Undergraduate Council referendum, everyone seems to have the same goal in mind even while disagreeing about how to fulfill it--we need more high quality activities that draw students together. My modest proposal is a little different: instead of fighting over how to create more, let's promote the terrific and woefully under attended events that already take place. My current favorite example...
...have really accomplished thespians all over campus. Our Gilbert and Sullivan players are in their fortieth season. Many ethnic and cultural organizations have drama troupes. And, most importantly, an evening at the Loeb Ex is free. Certainly, that is a cost effective student venue that does not take a referendum to create...
Some Miamians say it is time for the city, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, to disappear gracefully. These activists claim to have gathered more than the 12,000 signatures needed to get a referendum on the ballot in the next few months that would break up the city into Dade County. "You don't abolish the citizens, you don't abolish the streets and sidewalks. You abolish a political system that isn't working," says Rafael Kapustin, a downtown businessman...
Critics of the referendum drive say it is little more than an effort by citizens of the last remaining wealthy Miami neighborhoods such as Coconut Grove to separate themselves from the city's impoverished majority. But organizers claim they have support from all over town, including poor people suffering under the city's high tax burden and inadequate services. "One widow told me she's afraid the city will start asking her to empty her garbage cans into the trucks," says Courtelis...
...much Carollo's drive for reform but old-fashioned ethnic politics. Latinos have a lock on Miami government; four of the five city commissioners, including the mayor, are Latinos. They could stay in power by pushing for a big turnout of the Latino majority on referendum...