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...always wanted to tell someone: Dad, this is making me uncomfortable. Favorite childhood toy: Soccer ball, my father’s firearms. Sexiest physical trait: My RAZR, the soaring eagle tattoo across my chest. Favorite part about Harvard: Clifton Dawson. Describe yourself in three words: Scholar, lover, UC vice-presidential candidate. In 15 minutes you are: Trying to make friends. In 15 years you are: Buying friends...
...reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to a level 11 percent below total emissions in 1990 by the year 2020”—a bit more than the level mandated by the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on the national level. On Sunday, the Undergraduate Council (UC) will vote on whether this resolution will appear as a referendum on next month’s UC presidential election ballot. Although putting the measure to a student vote is well-intentioned, the referendum does not belong on the ballot this fall...
...UC needs to choose wisely the referenda that it places on its ballot. Referenda on students’ preferences on vague issues do not have a place in a campus election. Without knowing the cost of this proposal and who will pay for it, students can only voice their support for the idea of reducing emissions. Until more information is available to students, this referendum belongs in a basket of well intentioned ideas, but not on a UC ballot...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) met last night to launch its Hidden Cost Campaign, aiming to reduce the myriad small fees that face Harvard students and eliminate the new tax on gifts to student groups. Though these daily costs eat into the income of every undergraduate, they are particularly hard to shoulder for low-income students, according to UC President John C. Haddock ’07. “The financial aid packages and the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative are incredible steps, but they’ll never be able to address a lot of the unexpected costs...
...lines of consensus” will hopefully emerge within each group, Nowski said. In January, the groups will then each write a report that will be presented to the task force responsible for the general education proposal and its revisions, according to Nowski. The Undergraduate Council (UC), which appoints the students who serve on the CUE, held a town hall meeting at the end of last month on the general-education report with task force co-chairs Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons. The meeting gave council members...