Word: abstentionism
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The intermittent presence of vocals only serves to further stir the strange brew of shimmers and undulations that is the band’s signature sound. Their ascetic abstention from such a historically fundamental element of rock is somewhat surprising but goes a ways in illuminating the reason these four...
But in a prepared statement, Professor of Physics John M. Doyle said that his department voted 27-0, with one abstention, against a J-Term. He said the department was “puzzled by the educational objectives of a January Term.”
Although council parliamentarian E.E. Keenan ’07 repeatedly said that giving the grant was “backdoor discrimination” and violated the council’s constitution, members eventually voted to approve the grant 25-17, with one abstention.
Harvard undergraduates with a desire to vote in this week’s Undergraduate Council presidential and vice-presidential elections are confronted with a ballot replete with candidates’ names but lacking an essential component of any democratic lot—a space for abstention. In an election where...
At the heart of the problem is the specific nature of the electronic balloting used by the council in its elections. Unlike with traditional paper ballots, where abstention at the polls is as simple as spoiling one’s ballot (by voting for every candidate for every position, or...