Word: abstentionism
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These debates will have to wait, for the baseball hierarchy is engaged in the ugly spectacle of sliding outside the foul lines and getting its uniform soiled. The combatants are Fay Vincent, the eighth commissioner of baseball, and the majority of team owners, who have chafed under his three-year...
"I'm fed up with the way our country is being run," says Bryan J. Stone '93. "I'm seeing whether I want to remain indifferent. Abstention should be on the ballot rather that simply not going to the polls."
The amendment boosts the number of student directors from seven to ten. Voting student members approved the proposal 66 to 1 with 1 abstention. The number of senior directors remains set at 14.
At Tuesday's full board meeting, also an emergency session, the whole panel approved the modified amendment with one abstention and no opposing votes, students said. It is also considered almost certain to pass at the general meeting next Wednesday.
Most intriguing, however, was the 34% abstention rate in the first round, a figure unequaled in the history of France's Fifth Republic. Clearly, the electorate was weary of politics after three trips to the polls in six weeks and almost a year of campaign maneuvering. In the presidential balloting...