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...April 19 editorial on the Undergraduate Council and the proposed increase to the Student Activities Fee (SAF) made three assertions (“A Vote of No Confidence”). While I appreciate the seriousness of the concerns raised, I feel that each assertion was inaccurate and has the potential to cloud debate on the upcoming referendum. First, the editorial questioned the council’s capacity to maturely deliberate issues of great importance to students because of “hostility and childish antics” at council meetings. In fact (as the editorial later concedes), decorum at council...
Finally, the editorial suggested that even if the referendum fails, the council still plans to “ram through” an increase in the SAF. This is false. Every member of the Undergraduate Council with whom I have spoken is committed to following the will of the students. I am convinced, however, that as students carefully review the arguments in favor of raising the SAF, they will see that all students—not just those on the council—stand to benefit from an augmented fund for student activities...
Events that the SAF has subsidized so far this year include Harvard Ballroom’s semi-formal holiday dance and another dance organized by the Catholic Students Association...
...Harvard Ballet Company. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company is sufficiently funded by a grant from the OFA, and occasionally by council grants, said company director Lise T. Lipowsky ’05. Mainly Jazz is also funded by dues and by sources of grant money other than the SAF, according to group director Melissa E. Miller...
...which considers applications for the SAF grants, will discuss how the new grant policy has affected arts groups at its meeting tomorrow...