Word: uc
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...hate to say it, especially now that the UC plans to appoint somebody to write me whiny, poorly spelled letters on official council stationery, but the UC is not a real organization. It is a bunch of college kids playing government games, just like The Crimson is a bunch of college kids playing journalism games. (Of course, we have a much cooler building.) Few UC members are characterized by an overwhelming desire to serve their classmates. They like to talk and play power games and, yes, stuff their resumes. So do we. So does everyone at Harvard...
Actually, the UC is not the least popular organization on campus. According to a 1990 study, that honor goes to--you guessed it...The Crimson. (Probably because its writers overuse parentheses. And sentence fragments.) I haven't lost a lot of sleep over this study. The Crimson does some good things. We screw up a lot, too. The point is, as an institution, The Crimson does a heck of a lot more good for the people who work on it than it does for the people who read...
...UC is the same way. It gets us hamburger options every now and then. It blows $25,000 on stupid concerts every now and then. But basically it's an excuse to give college students a taste of what politics is like. It's an extracurricular activity that should not be taken too seriously. Which brings me back to the flak, and the UC's Andre Agassiesque obsession with its image...
...What the hell would a public relations officer do?" council member Adam Taxin '93 asks. "Are the other officers so important they can't answer their own phones? This whole thing is indicative of how people take the UC too seriously...
Exactly. If the UC wants a PR officer for the sake of creating a position, that's fine. If the UC wants a PR officer for the sake of providing better spin control, that's pathetic. Student governments--like student newspapers--are supposed to be unpopular. If you can't take the abuse, quit...