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...UC shouldn’t have to rely on the generosity of College administrators to get things done. Tom and Adam have a plan in hand to deliver more online coursepacks and other useful services to students, bypassing the Byzantine University bureaucracy. If the administrators won’t do it, students can. For example, instead of passing a position paper about cheaper textbooks, Tom started CrimsonReading.org. The New UC won’t ask for a better student life at the College—it will open up to students and make it happen...
Above all, Tom and Adam believe that the UC needs real direction, and we couldn’t agree more. The Council has suffered from an identity crisis, an organizational schizophrenia, lacking a particular mission or vision to drive its existence. There is no coherent legislative agenda on the UC right now, but in the New UC, there will...
...experience at Harvard. They have concrete proposals (available at www.thenewuc.com) for achieving these goals, from creating a student endowment to building a virtual web portal for students to increasing departmental classes that count for Core credit. By driving after proposals that work toward definite greater ends, the New UC will build momentum and avoid the scatter-shot inaction...
It’s time to expect more from our Undergraduate Council. It’s time to bring “what the UC should be” out of our imaginations, and into reality. It’s time, in short, for a new UC...
...could do one thing as UC president what would it be? Take action not credit...