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Students can currently vote on-line on a referendum that would require that 5 percent of the council budget--or about $500 per house--be allocated for house committees in the future. Voting ends at 5 p.m. today...
...both questions on the referendum pass, student groups from PBH programs to ethnic associations will have more money to buy equipment, hold festivals and sponsor winning social events. House committees and the first-year caucus will have more funds for formals, theme dances and improvements to house facilities...
...Council will still have more than $26,000 to fund its successful standbys: Yalegate, airport shuttle buses, Springfest and the Levenson teacher awards ceremony. To spread the wealth and force the Council to cut wasteful spending, vote yes on both referendum questions...
...that the Undergraduate Council elections are finally over, our council representatives have given us yet another chance to vote on-line: this time, with a referendum on grants to student groups and house committees. We applaud the council's decision to bring such an important and contentious issue to a popular vote--even though it has been delayed a few days--but we urge students to vote no on both questions...
...referendum deals with increasing the percentage of the council's $120,000 budget that it allocates to student groups from 63 percent to 65 percent, and permanently allocating five percent of the council's budget for block grants to the houses. While we definitely feel that Harvard's student groups should be supported, it is premature to call for these significant increases. The reason for this is that only one and a half months ago did the council vote to increase its spending to the current 63 percent, an all time high. In other words, there simply hasn't been...