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...Undergraduate Council has come up with an innovative, bold proposal, and, ironically, it may fail because it is the UC that has come up with it. This week the student governing body will vote on whether to initiate a capital campaign to raise $600,000 to put toward a down payment on 45 Mt. Auburn Street—the Democracy Center building, currently owned by the Foundation for Civic Leadership. Supporters of the undertaking provide a vision that this building could become a vibrant communal social space (read: party space) for the Harvard student body...
...uncertain how the UC will undertake the massive fundraising effort needed to purchase the building or how they will negotiate the legalities of hosting open parties. Nevertheless, the prospect of a social space for the whole student body is extremely alluring. By providing a venue for any club or organization to have a decent party, it would open up social opportunities for the fair number of students who are currently underserved by the going options. For this reason, the UC should go forward with plans to buy 45 Mount Auburn Street...
...provide help for students from out-of-state. So the economic distribution for them is significantly different from those in-state." One fairly reliable measure of the economic diversity of a campus is the percentage of students who receive Pell Grants. Roughly 30% of the undergraduates at UCLA or UC-Berkeley are Pell Grant recipients. At Michigan, by contrast, that number is only around...
...According to UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10, although the UC itself cannot look at real estate, it can encourage Harvard to investigate particular locations...
...particular, the UC is currently working on determining the fate of the Democracy Center, at 45 Mt. Auburn Street...