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...turbulent one for the Harvard Undergraduate Council (UC). The College’s student government won praise from this page for a number of its more promising initiatives, but earned rebukes for a series of shortcomings. Failed special events, tempestuous internal politics, and unfulfilled promises of UC reform leave next year’s UC with a significant body of work to be done...
...finally, there is the UC’s significant council reform, on which it set out this spring. Promising proposals for a decentralized council, a streamlined grants process, an expanded CLC, and direct elections to the UC’s to-be empowered committees were all considered, with disappointing results. In May, a bill that would have introduced direct elections to UC committees—a reform we staunchly advocated—was defeated 18-13. We condemned the apparent death of what we consider the UC Reform Commission’s most important proposal, and chastised...
...been a year worthy of mixed reviews for the UC, as missteps alternated with strides forward in the council’s business. The record of the 2004-2005 UC leaves room for significant improvement, especially in event planning and council reform, but the UC’s promise in negotiating extended library and dining hall hours, in particular, leaves room for great optimism...
...took a year off during medical school to serve as a senior adviser for health policy in the Clinton administration. It was in Washington that Gawande got an insider’s look into “the battles of trying to actually reform the health care system.” Today, he describes the endeavor as a failure—“a very trying experience with many lessons learned...
This arrogance has manifested itself in many areas; chief among them are Social Security and judicial nominations. Americans, including many members of his own party, roundly disapproved of the president’s plan to privatize Social Security. Indeed, instead of attempting measured reform of a Social Security system that an April Wall Street Journal poll revealed 55 percent of Americans did not believe should be privatized, Bush continued to push a misguided plan that even he admitted would not “fix” the problem...