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Abolish the Council

DISSENT

By Joshna A. Kaufman

Why pretend that the Undergraduate Council is or can be representative of student opinion, or that it can or will act on our behalf? No one cares about it, and its members perennially return the feeling. The council is an impotent farce.

Obviously true student government does not exist at Harvard. We are ruled by the College administration. It is time to end the charade. Abolish the Undergraduate Council.

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