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...while University Hall and the Undergraduate Council continue to spar over how much of a liability party grants really pose and, more fundamentally, how much autonomy the UC possesses, students and group leaders voiced their concern about a larger and perhaps more troubling trend...
...those students who mourn their demise, the UC party grants have become a natural (if not exaggerated) symbol for the vitality of campus social life. But there are other issues at play: the termination of the program is just one decision among several recent developments in the College administration’s policy toward alcohol that might presage a return to less open and more draconian methods of enforcement...
...December 2002, Rohit Chopra ’04 and Jessica R. Stannard-Friel ’04 campaigned for the position of UC president and vice president on a platform dedicated to improving the undergraduate social scene. In its public endorsement of the duo, The Crimson lauded the candidates’ proposal for “an unprecedented party fund” that provided eight $50 subsidies each week to encourage students to host parties. Elected by an overwhelming majority, the UC under Chopra and Stannard-Friel formally established the party grant program in 2003. According to UC President Ryan...
...UC party grant program aroused no public complaint from the Dean’s Office at the time of its establishment. One explanation for the administration’s reserve might have involved a comprehensive student-satisfaction survey administered in 2002 to 31 elite institutions, in which Harvard ranked fifth from the bottom. While the results were leaked to The Boston Globe in 2005, a former administrator told The Crimson last year that orders had come from the very top as early as 2002 to improve Harvard’s social scene. Then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, added...
...positive feedback. People realize that throwing a party is expensive.” While some students couldn’t resist poking fun at the school for requiring institutional support in having a good time, the grants soon became a staple of student life. In each succeeding year the UC voted to continue the program, making small alterations for better accountability and increasing the value of the grants from $50 to $100. Harvard’s social scene, if not exactly on par with its brethren at the famous “party schools,” took a step...