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Voting in an anonymous online poll that closed last night, 699 GSAS students said that they do not lack confidence in the leadership of Summers, while 608 students voted in support of the statement of no confidence. An additional 90 students voted to abstain, and 146 said that they required more information...
Voting in an anonymous online poll that closed last night, 699 GSAS students said that they do not lack confidence in the leadership of Summers, while 608 students voted in support of the statement of no confidence. An additional 90 students voted to abstain, and 146 said that they required more information...
...that motion, 945 students said that they agreed with the statement, while 362 students said they disagreed. One hundred forty-nine voted to abstain, and 87 said they needed more information...
...oppose.” But if the University were to follow that logic, students would be allowed to opt out of myriad policies with which they feel moral conflict. Those against modern medical practices could opt out of the health services fee entirely. Vegetarian students would be allowed to abstain from portions of their meal plan fees, ensuring that their hard earned dollars were not going towards the purchase of meat. These abstentions are not allowed, and for good reason. Opening up an opt-out policy across the board would lead to considerable funding problems for Harvard?...
...isn’t just accuracy that gets lost when voters are deprived of their ability to abstain; when campus-wide referenda and presidential/vice-presidential elections are conducted on the same electronic ballot, a voter who may want to abstain from voting on the question of their student government leadership, but who feels strongly about one or more of the referendum questions, is unable to cast a vote on the latter while declining to participate in the former. It isn’t hard to imagine, for instance, that a given student might feel that the distinction between renewable and exhaustible...