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...ongoing effort to make Harvard more like a state school, the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) party grant fund disburses $2,000 each week among 16 party-throwing recipients. The program is one of the UC’s great successes, which makes it all the more unfortunate that the Committee on House Life (CHL), a student-faculty committee that includes many House masters, recently discussed stripping the program from the UC and putting it into the hands of the House Committees (HoCos...
...fund is going to continue to foster campus-wide social life, it should be left in the hands of the UC, which, as a centralized group, is far better positioned to distribute the funds equitably and effectively than the 12 separate house committees...
...First, the consolidated nature of the program’s administration makes it easier to ensure that its benefits are accessible to all students—after all, it’s funded by money pooled from the whole student body. If HoCos provided the grants rather than the UC, the parties would likely become far more limited, instead of the campus-wide events they are intended to be. For example, the UC currently posts the locations of funded parties on the UC-general e-mail list, to which any Harvard student can subscribe. While fostering house community is also...
...randomization, as some advocate, they would be forced to make the fraught decision of who in their House is most deserving or most capable of throwing a “good” party. While HoCos would certainly be in a better position to make that assessment than the UC, it is a judgment that should not be made at all. As Avery A. Cavanah ’08, co-chair of Dunster HoCo pointed out, making HoCos into administrators and enforcers of a party fund would poison the social dynamic between HoCos and their House, leaving them open...
...strongest proponents for the change have been the House masters, according to Alexander N. Li ’08, who is the chair of the UC’s Finance Committee, which currently oversees the party fund. HoCos, so the reasoning goes, would have some advantage over the UC in knowing the logistics of their house. They are more likely to know which rooms are or could be reasonably joined to make super-party suites and are more familiar with their individual House’s party registration rules...