The Harvard Undergraduate Association discussed ongoing initiatives and reviewed backing for a campus-wide laundry accessibility task astatine its wide gathering Sunday.
The initiatives included HUA’s Blue Bikes subsidy programme and an upcoming Declaration Day event. HUA Co-President Travis Allen Johnson ’24 besides presented field information concerns raised successful municipality hallway meetings held past week.
HUA Co-Presidents LyLena D. Estabine ’24 and Johnson kicked disconnected the gathering by announcing the brace had been selected to service connected the hunt committee for Harvard’s caller Dean of Students. Katherine G. O’Dair vacated the relation successful August erstwhile she was appointed University Marshall.
During the meeting, Estabine and Johnson solicited pupil feedback connected the search, offering acquisition cards to those who be a league with the advisory panel.
Estabine lauded the HUA’s escaped headshot project, which provided headshots to 180 undergraduates this month. She said she hopes for organization assistance done Harvard’s Student Employment Office astatine the adjacent iteration of the inaugural aboriginal this year.
The HUA leaders besides confirmed they were moving connected an bid signifier for their Blue Bikes subsidy program, which aims to supply single-ride passes for students astatine a reduced terms of $1.
At a freshman municipality hallway past Wednesday, students raised concerns astir field information and security, which ranged from mediocre field lighting to unsafe walking conditions betwixt Harvard Yard and the Quad. At Sunday’s meeting, Johnson announced the HUA volition conscionable with Harvard University Police Department Chief Victor A. Clay to code the criticisms.
Officers and attendees astatine the gathering besides voted unanimously to allocate $250 to an accessible laundry inaugural introduced by well-being serviceman Hana Rehman ’25. The project, which was piloted successful Lowell House, volition spot tactile silicon markers connected laundry machines passim field to amended accommodate visually impaired students.
“This assemblage accepts students without considering each of the accessibility needs they mightiness request to implicit basal chores similar completing their laundry each week by themselves,” Rehman said astatine the Sunday meeting.
—Staff writer J. Sellers Hill tin beryllium reached astatine sellers.hill@thecrimson.com. Follow him connected Twitter @SellersHill.
—Staff writer Mert Geyiktepe tin beryllium reached astatine mert.geyiktepe@thecrimson.com.
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