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...open later, to increase funding for club sports and to smooth the rocky transition into house life for freshmen. They especially want to focus the UC’s energy on lobbying for groups of students like physically disabled students, low-income students, and students studying abroad, for whom UC support can make an immediate and positive impact on quality of life...
Experience is only half of the reason why John and Annie are the right choice to lead the UC. Leaders of the student body also need to understand why so many students and even many UC members see the UC as distant and inaccessible. Too often the UC focuses on itself, its internal procedures, and political posturing instead of working toward concrete results...
John and Annie understand this as well as anyone. Annie served on the UC last year and worked hard on issues ranging from peer advising to interhouse transfers, but became disillusioned with what she calls the “isolation” in which the UC sometimes works. She decided to focus her energy on her other activities like the Best Buddies Club, CityStep, and the Prefect Program this year...
Thus, as vice president, Annie will lend a crucial perspective to the UC: she knows first-hand the intense passion students feel for their extracurricular commitments. She has experienced the struggles that student groups go through to get grants processed and to secure space for their events. She and John will bring to the UC a tireless work ethic and a renewed commitment to the groups and communities in which so many students have invested so much...
...sense of community at Harvard we all value so highly is best cultivated not by top-down social planning, but by smaller groups—at a capella concerts, political discussions, House formals, and intramural sports matches. They won’t forget that the value of the UC is determined not by how many bills it passes or by how many events it throws, but by how many students it enables to shape their own social and extracurricular lives...