Ivy Council shrinks to seven with Harvard's departure
The Ivy Council's membership shrank from the Ancient Eight to a selective seven last week when Harvard student government leaders passed a resolution to withdraw their Undergraduate Council from the independent association of Ivy League student governments. The Harvard resolution, passed last Monday, leveled numerous criticisms at IVC, declaring its spring 2005 conference unproductive, blasting Yale representatives unprepared and decrying some financial expenses as unmerited. IVC, a non-profit organization comprised of student leaders from the Ivy League schools, hosts two conferences each year for student governments to exchange ideas and vote on statements related to issues of national concern. Harvard, the only school to drop out of IVC since the organization formed in 1993, is bowing out for the second time.