Word: student
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...cost of educating a student at Harvard is only partially offset by the tuition it receives, even from those students who do not qualify for financial aid. In fact, student tuition and fees constituted less than 33 percent of the revenue Harvard received in 1988. The remaining 66 percent came from interest earned on the endowment (17.2%), private gifts (19.7%) and government and institutional grants (30.9%). As income from these sources has decreased as a percentage of total revenue over the past few years, Harvard has had to look to other places to pick up the slack. Moreover, the University...
Under the current system, council members alone have the right to elect the student body's chief representative and spokesperson. But a campus-wide campaign would force candidates for the post to listen to their constituents, giving students a more powerful voice in their government...
...arguments council members used in December to attack the election-reform plan show exactly why the measure is needed. Some members argued that they alone were knowledgeable enough to gauge a candidate's qualifications for the job. They warned that the unlettered rabble that is the Harvard student body might thrust some satanic demagogue on them, who would paralyze the council under the weight...
Candidates would have to stand on a platform that could serve as a working agenda for the council throughout the year. A campus-wide vote would also increase interest in the council and make students feel that they have more of a stake in the running of their own student government...
...referendum passes this week, the Undergraduate Council can truly become the voice of student opinion. A "Yes" vote is a demand that the word "student" be put back into student government. At stake in the balloting is the direction of the council itself. Will it increasingly use its nascent political voice to represent student opinion or will it backslide into a stagnant pool of chocolate milk and malaise...