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They want to turn the UC’s advocacy around. The Council has proven completely impotent when it comes to issues that matter to students, from the student group tax to the Harvard-Yale tailgate. Position paper after position paper isn’t enough, and repeated polite requests are ineffectual. The New UC will more aggressively utilize the campus newsmedia, rallies, petitions, op-eds, town hall meetings, surveys, and popular referenda to get students’ voices heard. We’ve wasted enough paper on reports with no results—the UC needs active advocacy...
...helped shape a new general education proposal to save future generations of Harvard students from the Core. He has staunchly defended student groups, earning group leaders a meeting with the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences earlier this month to further the fight against the student group tax. Ryan’s advocacy not only represents students but also creates opportunities for students to represent themselves. Indeed, Ryan was instrumental in securing seats for undergraduates on both the Presidential and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committees...
...supporting gay rights on campus, whereas the ROTC issue really isn’t about gay students at all. If it were, you’d see more antipathy toward the Internal Revenue Service when it swindles gay professors and staff from getting a marriage deduction according to the tax code. There would also be more antipathy towards Islamic fundamentalism—the regimes of which routinely torture and even execute gay people—instead of the complacent multicultural mollycoddling worshipped on campus...
Hadfield suggested holding a rally to pressure University Hall to repeal the tax...
...Iraq and Iraqis take more responsibility for their own country, a position shared by nearly everyone in America except John McCain and a few others who want to send in more troops. While Vilsack has been a leader in the centrist Democratic Leadership Council, the middle-class tax cuts and push toward a balanced budget that the DLC pushes have become so mainstream and embraced by so many Democrats that those ideas were part of the six-part "New Direction" that congressional Democrats will act on when they take control in January...