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Most reasonable students have long conceded the UC??s unmistakable lack of influence and power over most concerns of college life, aside from cutting precious few checks to the hundreds of ravenous student groups. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, UC aspirants and representatives remain impervious to this logic...
...specifically charged with overseeing student life, should show solicitous concern for the preferences and concerns of undergraduates. Yet the UC itself is in no position—financially, institutionally, or even in principle—to make as imperious of demands as it has over the past year. The UC??s job, dutifully executed, is principally to encourage, organize, and support student social life—the only area of university governance in which students themselves can rightly claim expertise...
...this debacle did not sufficiently shame the UC??s negotiating skills, the Petersen-Sundquist administration reserved the coup de grâce for a larger audience. Standing opposite an audience of students, faculty, and alumni on that soggy October day, Petersen delivered a shameful harangue, condescending to University President Drew G. Faust upon her installation and demanding that the “denial of student citizenship” end immediately...
...Take a moment to consider what the UC has actually accomplished this past year. Completely bungling the party fund, the Sundquist-Petersen administration stood idly by as the UC??s influence over student social life evaporated. The College Events Board completely displaced the UC??s former incompetence in planning college-wide events. Ryan A. Petersen ’08 embarrassed us all with his speech, which pretended to speak on behalf of the student body, at Drew Faust’s installation—a barefaced attempt to deceive students with the tough-talking that...
...It’s time for a change. We have a real choice for president and vice president in Roy and Nick. The Willey-Snow ticket has the right vision, experience, and commitment to fulfill the UC??s most important duty on campus: giving students a voice in shaping their Harvard experience. They will put the “college” back in Harvard College by making the UC more accountable to the student and the administration more accountable...