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Third, they want to engage students in shaping the spending priorities of the College by developing a student-led $10-million investment plan. Harvard’s endowment grew by 19.2 percent last year, bringing the endowment’s overall value to $25.9 billion. Tom and Magnus want Harvard to invest in undergraduates. Their vision is for students and student groups to identify spending priorities—such as a student center or bike lanes in the Yard—and present a comprehensive investment plan to the College administration. As a community, we could change the campus forever...
...party fund is a popular initiative, but demand far outstrips supply. Since the introduction of the super parties, many Houses no longer have a weekly UC party. The first-come-first-serve funding model for parties is ludicrous, and UC-funded parties are generally very poorly advertised. Magnus and Tom think the UC should decentralize social planning and support House life by providing more funding for smaller parties and encouraging cooperation between HoCos instead of wasting UC money on failed campus-wide events...
...students to access agendas, minutes, legislation, or roll-calls, let alone the time and location of the next UC meeting. Student interest is so low that there were not even enough candidates immediately on the ballot in many houses for September’s UC elections. Magnus and Tom will recruit students with web experience to redesign and maintain the UC website, make videos of UC meetings available for download on the web, and encourage more candidates to get on the ballot for UC elections. They will also institute a semiannual survey of all undergraduates to find out what students...
It’s unfortunate that several high-profile failures have overshadowed all the tremendous achievements of the UC. Harvard, the best university in the world, deserves a student government second to none. Mangus and Tom are the only candidates who can give us just that. They aren’t playing politics like the others. Instead, they really care about improving life for students at Harvard...
...Well,” said senior defenseman Tom Walsh, “this week we’ve been getting back to long, difficult practices, which we’re not obviously looking forward...