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...life at Harvard. What we’re trying to do more in the future is make student groups aware that it exists and take advantage of it,” said Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee (SAC...
...SAC vice-chair John S. Haddock ’07 added that he hopes the SAF will be used to support more campus-wide events next year...
Perhaps the most significant change the UCRC has suggested is the direct election of candidates to each of the UC’s three committees. For years, UC critics have noted that students tend generally to favor service on the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) first, followed by the Campus Life Committee (CLC) and the Finance Committee. Under the old system, the House candidate garnering the highest percentage of the vote picked his or her first-choice committee, while the second and third-place winners were often placed on committees with missions they weren’t as passionate about...
...only possible downside to this change lies in the inevitable politicking that will happen as sophomore UC-reps run their first races in the Houses. We may see sophomores running for CLC, even though they were on SAC as freshmen, just to ensure their election to the UC. Though this might seem to undermine the overarching goal of guaranteeing every UC rep’s earnest motivation to work on his or her respective committee, that many sophomores have defeated junior and senior incumbents in the past suggests otherwise. Neither would it be bad to force SAC-aligned sophomores...
Responsibility sharing seems to be the name of the game with many of the other reform proposals. Sub-SAC chairs and assistant treasurers will lighten the currently unbearable load on the UC’s top executives. The redefinition of the role of UC vice president as head of both a new UC standing rules and reform committee and a new UC-student group forum is also a positive step in light of the ad hoc responsibilities VPs have held thus far. Requiring the Harvard Concert Commission to report to the CLC is a step we have called...