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...Undergraduate Council (UC) voted Wednesday night to press Harvard administrators to help shoulder computer printing fees and set up a loan system for the electronic response devices used in science lectures.The move is the latest development in the UC??€™s Hidden Cost Campaign, an ongoing effort to reduce the numerous small charges that Harvard undergraduates face.The council called on faculty departments to loan the classroom devices—known as Personal Response Systems (PRS) clickers—to students enrolled in their courses. Undergraduates would only have to pay the $43 cost if they did not return...
...inexpensive cardboard boxes for move-out, and $1 movie nights—all of which the UC used to provide. The UC is a single, central body with both the authority and financial means to coordinate these endeavors, and so the responsibility to do so falls on it. The UC??€™s role, however, should be to find entrepreneurial students and, when necessary, subsidize the projects rather than to do them itself. UC members are elected to be legislators, not business experts, and they should leave the logistical details to students who are more competent in organizing services...
...leadership needs to implement a mechanism for arranging student services within the UC??€™s current two-committee framework. It does not need to bring back the CLC, nor does it need another third arm such as an "Outreach and Services Committee"—an idea which was proposed and rejected last spring. We do not know precisely how the UC ought to handle soliciting and selecting bids from third parties. It could be done by the UC??€™s Finance Committee (FiCom), or by a FiCom subcommittee, or by the president and vice president themselves...
...Having a Web Site. The UC??€™s Web site needs to stop being a weak tool that serves as a link to the UC and students. Instead, it should be free to design its own destiny. By giving the Web site an endowment and organizing a crack team of for-profit business school students, the UC??€™s Web site will finally become a true power player by consolidating power until it finally assumes its correct role as the hegemonic ruler of the world, er, we mean, the trusty student Web portal...
It’s about the Web Site. It’s about Time. Instead of fighting with the UC??€™s Web site, we should learn to talk with it. Through constant advocacy, we can negotiate small changes with the Web site. The positions of links can be shifted. The color palate won’t change, but with the Web site we can discuss the possibilities of tones. And this is the year that we are in the best position to get the Web site to move the calendar a bit higher on the page...