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...Council has 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...
...revolutions are first and foremost about power, and the most dramatic reform that Chavez may seek - and the most worrisome to his foes - is a constitutional change to remove term limits on the presidency and allow him to run again in 2012. He also says he could create a single party out of the many that support him. The president denied last week that such reforms pointed to increasing authoritarianism, and assured that any constitutional reform would have to pass through a national referendum. "This isn't a dictatorship," he said. "It's democracy...
...some of whom also serve on Petersen’s campaign staff.The restructuring of the UC, one of the defining issues of last year’s campaign, has resurfaced in this election, with current UC members looking to move beyond last year’s reform debate toward a renewed focus on student advocacy. “I personally believe that we spent a year working really hard to make sure that the UC is restructured and ready to start focusing on the students,” said Riley, who led the effort to spin off the UC?...
...University Is a Drama Queen” (December 1) provides a refreshing perspective on the military’s relation to Harvard—or lack thereof. Like Mahtani, I certainly object to the military’s discriminatory policies and agree that they need reform, but breaking all ties with our nation’s system of defense is not the answer. It is much easier to change an organization from the inside out. If Harvard is not producing any substantial number of military recruits, then we have no stake in the governing of the armed forces. That...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has said that calendar reform will most likely wait until after the completion of the General Education reforms, calling into question the feasibility of the implementation of one of Petersen’s main platform points...