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...major part of this effort has been the “Vote or Die” campaign, which was started in 2004 to increase minority representation on the UC...
...Vote or Die” leader and UC representative Lori M. Adelman ’08 said the campaign holds informational sessions before UC elections to encourage minority students...
...went into this believing that being a UC rep for me, a person of color, would be in some ways more meaningful than if I were just part of a majority group and won,” he said. “They gave statistics on how few minorities have done the UC in the past, [and] how it was typically viewed as an all-white organization...
Terry said the ties minority representatives have to student ethnic groups on campus can positively impact the effectiveness of the UC, referencing his own experience planning Harvard’s 2005 Unite Against AIDS Summit...
...people of color who were on the UC [because of] ‘Vote or Die’ were extremely important in helping to bring a coalition together to navigate the politics of the UC,” he said. “It wouldn’t have happened without a diverse student council who knew members of the different student groups helping to plan the Aids Summit...