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Lewis has rejected all three of the council's bills submitted to him thus far, including his recent decision to veto a proposal to ban the annual ROTC commissioning ceremony in Harvard Yard...
...points to the failure of the council's resolution on the ROTC commissioning ceremony as an example of ill-informed legislation. He says no one who was knowledgeable about the history of the administration's previous position on the ceremony was consulted on the proposal...
...certain bills, the U.C. records how each of its members votes. The table shows how the candidates profiled today voted on four key issues: the institution of popular elections; a request that Harvard replace all references of "freshman" with "first-year"; a request that Harvard remove the ROTC commissioning ceremony from the Yard; and gender neutrality of the U.C. constitution. Luke Z. Fenchel and Joyce F. Liu Crimson Issue Hyman Smith Rawlins Zingher Haynes Popular Elections A* Y Y A N First-Year Y Y Y Y N ROTC Ceremonies Y Y Y Y N Gender Neutrality...
...students: providing student services and representing student concerns. Unfortunately, the opposite is happening: the Undergraduate Council is turning, more and more, into a weird debating club, where members argue about politics, from changing the English language to reforming the United States military. Council members were too busy debating Harvard ROTC policy to provide airport shuttle buses for students leaving for spring break...
This is by no means the first time that the council has staked its heart and soul on a non-issue, but it is the first time--and it will by no means be the last, as the Dean's recent ROTC veto proves--that the council will suffer the repeated blows of The Shackle, whimpering and licking its wounds each time a resolution is rejected by the Dean on principled grounds. With each rejection, the council's legitimacy suffers; its perceived competence decreases; its subservience and addiction to administrative vindication grows...