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Undergraduate Council (UC) elections begin today. In this new academic year, the Harvard student body will again select their hardworking peers who will represent their interests in the UC’s general meetings and on its committees. Every Harvard student should take a moment today—or in the next few days before noon on Friday—to vote in their reps who have generously volunteered to give their time and energy to make Harvard a better place for all undergraduates...
...despite happy thoughts of wise UC legislators efficiently planning campus-wide events and disbursing monies for the greater good, this UC election season seems to have inspired notably fewer students than years prior...
...basic structure of the UC is fairly straightforward. Although you just vote for UC representatives, most of the work is done in three committees: the Student Affairs Committee (SAC), which advocates for the student body (like pressing the administration to have a 24-hour library), the Financial Committee (FiCom), which allocates grant money (the UC had about $213,500 to give to student groups last year), and the Campus Life Committee (CLC), which plans campus-wide events. Each House or Yard gets three representatives. With some exceptions, the winners choose committees based on the number of votes they...
...student affairs area, ask candidates questions about how they will improve life on campus. Most will say they want longer dining hall hours. But do they have other ideas? What are they? Are they realistic? After all, the UC is only a student government, and it often takes more than just the UC to make big changes...
Finally, the UC as a whole gives out money to other organizations including House Committees, the First-Year Social Committee, and the Harvard Concert Commission. So, you should ask candidates which of these entities they think should get more money. Would they spend more money to get a better artist at a Harvard concert? If they had a little more money to dole out, which group would they give...