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Yang and Jackson Out To Restore Faith in UC

“We all take the same classes, for the most part, but where we go on a Friday night can be a divisive issue,” they wrote in a statement on their campaign website. “There should a place any student can go for parties.”

Jackson said she has met with Dean of the College Rakesh Khurana several times to discuss her idea for non-gendered social spaces, which she said Khurana seemed to support.

In addition to advocating for all-inclusive social spaces, Yang and Jackson are campaigning on a plan to provide a multicultural space for minority groups.

In campaign materials on their website, the duo criticizes the College for the fact that minority spaces are below ground: the Women’s Center is in the Canaday basement, and the BGLTQ office is in the basement of Boylston Hall. They advocate for a multicultural center in a more prominent location. On their website, they say that students should work with the administration now to secure a space in the Smith Campus Center.

Yang and Jackson also point to the importance of mental health as a determining factor for student happiness. The website says that they will seek to improve campus-wide mental health by creating  nap spaces for Harvard students where they will be able to alleviate stress and sleep deprivation.

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In addition, their campaign proposes a mental health “Survivor” network, which would pull together organizations such as Harvard Student Mental Health Liaisons and Room 13.

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