For now, the council will contribute $5,000 per concert to HCC.
Though plans for a second concert in May fell through, HCC has signed the popular band Dispatch to perform in the fall.
In another effort to improve social life on campus, the council created an online "Events Calendar" that informs students about campus-wide activities for the coming week.
Students receive weekly e-mails telling them where the activities will be, and Gusmorino says hundreds of undergraduates have already subscribed.
The council is also in the process of planning a "Fallfest" to be the seasonal counterpart of the annually successful "Springfest" that it already organizes.
The Campus Life Committee, headed by Robert M. Gee `02 and Melissa A. Eccleston `04, organized the best attended Springfest in memory last April, and they hope to make Fallfest equally popular.
To "stand up for students," the council took a number of steps to enhance the College's faculty advising program.
It established the Marquand Award for superior advising, a proposal of Gusmorino's designed to encourage faculty members to pay greater attention to their advisees. The award will be given in the fall.
In its February letter addressed to Harvard's next president, the council stressed the need for greater diversity among Harvard's faculty.
The council also passed resolutions to increase rape awareness and prevention on campus. In part as a result of the council's efforts, Gusmorino says, the "safe communities" meeting held for first-years during their first week at Harvard now includes a much larger segment addressing rape.
Penny Pinching
To fulfill its third pledge to undergraduates, the council expanded its "UC Books" and "UC Boxes" programs.
UC Books--a website that helps students find the best deals on textbooks--expanded to include material representing more of Harvard's courses. Gusmorino says he will work this summer to expand it even further.
The UC Boxes program, designed to provide students with boxes for their summer move-out at half the price of commercial boxes, sold all 750 in one day.
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