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...reason is obvious. A few major-league screw-ups in recent years have sapped the UC??s credibility to the point that every week without a catastrophe still seems a small victory. To its credit, the UC has moved on from losing thousands on attendee-free booze cruises and concerts to focus on what it apparently does best—very little...
...name artists. When it became painfully obvious that UC members’ ineptitude, not money, was the real issue, the council rightly jettisoned its social programming function—and a third of its membership—but was left with its termbill windfall intact. As it stands, the UC??s budget exceeds...
Even more disappointing is the distinct scent of pork that permeates the UC??s lack of initiative. According to one UC representative, paying $1,700 for two months’ worth of newspapers for an entire campus, “just took money away from student groups.” Fair enough. Moments after voting down the newspaper initiative, however, the UC approved grants for similar amounts to individual student groups, whose combined impact for the undergraduate population is certain to be less than a stack of free newspapers in dining halls each morning...
Recent history makes the UC??s inaction all the more perplexing. Last November, a small number of representatives jammed through legislation that allowed the UC to fund special shuttles from the Quad to Harvard Square on the morning of the Harvard-Yale football game. Despite resistance from gun-shy representatives, the service operated successfully. In January, the UC voted down a proposal to buy back used PRS clickers and re-sell them at cost, to reduce prices for students who end up in courses that require the expensive devices. A number of frustrated UC representatives ultimately...
...Neither aspect of the amendment proved to be enough to allay the concerns of the bill’s doubters. “We’re already on a very tight budget,” Jon T. Staff V ’10, a vice chair of the UC??s Financial Committee (FiCom), said, adding that the money earmarked for newspapers “will not go to cultural events” or “political rallies.” Despite the bill’s demise, Rosier, who in the aftermath of a New York...