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Except for the power to distribute funds to undergraduate organizations, the Yale College Council (YCC), Yale's 27-member student government, has no bottom-line authority. Nor do the student-faculty committees to which it appoints members. But this lack of tangible power has not prevented the council from making itself heard on a variety of undergraduate issues...
Yale's current strike gave the YCC an opportunity to show its stuff. At the start of the strike, Yale was able to operate the freshman dining hall by assigning white-collar employees to work the kitchen, and gave upperclassmen a daily allowance to purchase food, because all other dining halls were closed. But believing that freshmen should not be forced to cross picket lines by eating in the dining hall, the YCC voted to request that Yale offer freshmen the daily stipend on an optional basis. Administrators denied the request, but after meeting the YCC officers, Hannah Gray, Yale...
...YCC has not shied away from taking a stand on the strike, either. In addition to calling for both parties to begin negotiations, the council passed a resolution supporting the union's demands for greater job security. However, the YCC passed a resolution hostile to some of the union's demands for a wage increase. Other YCC members, working independently of the council, convinced the union to drop its request for a gradual phaseout of student jobs...
...play on the fact that the administration doesn't like to get students too angry. Our real power is the potential to get students out to demonstrate and show that they're angry. We're not so much a government as a lobby," Segall vice chairman of the YCC, says...
...keeping wit philosophy, the YCC contributed to efforts to show student support for greater access to budgetary data, which many students perceive to be a key to credible criticism of, and influence over, the budget. The YCC helped to organize a group that planned to lobby for more input into the budgeting process. Also, the council endorsed a demonstration calling on the administration to release more budgetary data...