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...failed to convince the faculty of its academic merits. By the end of the year, however, the UC successfully managed to work out a deal to have an automated teller machine installed in the old Hilles library, finally filling a void in the wallets of the hundreds of students trapped between Shepard and Linnaean Streets. Additionally, the UC worked with the administration to revamp the Student Initiated Programming fund. In a nod to the legacy of the defunct Party Fund, a third of SIP grant money can now be used to buy alcohol so long as the host does...
Possibly the greatest development in student life came from the revamped academic calendar. This year, Harvard ended its generations-long tradition of holding first-semester exams after winter break, opting instead to do away with intersession, start and end the school year earlier, and standardize its schedule with those of most other American universities. Although we were originally positive about the calendar change, we were disappointed by the lack of programming over J-Term, as what actually came to fruition was rather different than what was originally planned. We hope that, in the future, more options will be available...
Election season was in full swing, and students at Harvard and across the nation were passionately supporting a youthful candidate for president who spoke to them with eloquence and charisma, and who even carried a Harvard degree. Cambridge hosted heated debates, partisan speakers, and plenty of student volunteers distributing leaflets and voter registration information. Issues ranging from the candidates’ stances on national security to levels of political experience were discussed in classrooms and common rooms across campus...
...organized meetings and held rallies and wrote articles,” said Howard Phillips, who participated in Republican organizations at Harvard and on the national scene as a student, and has since run for president three times himself as a third-party candidate...
...Student campaigning stretched beyond Cambridge...