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...debate, sponsored by the Harvard Political Union (HPU), pitted the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Students for Choice against the Harvard Republican Club and Harvard Right to Life...
Take the Harvard Political Union (HPU), a group that holds weekly debates on current events and government policy. The lack of female participation at the discussions “has always been an issue for HPU and is something we are constantly concerned with,” Chair Daniel A. Dunay ’06 told me. “We have always experienced a situation in which our male-female ratio has been extremely high...
...they are simply not running. According to council Election Commission Chair David I. Monteiro ’04, during this last election over twice as many males ran for council representative positions than females, but their election success rates were about the same. And even after the HPU deliberately picked topics they felt would make the group more inviting to females, the turnout was still very...
These efforts were met with success, said HPU Chair Daniel A. Dunay ’06, who ventured out to Lowell House and ended up conducting a discussion and debate with a group of students in the House courtyard...
Dunay added that other members of the curricular review committees and HPU had visited common spaces in Leverett, Quincy and Kirkland Houses and had similar discussions with clusters of students there. He said the two groups would almost certainly conduct more discussions in that format—“bringing the pizza to the people, not forcing people to come to the pizza...