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...enter the race or reducing the amount given to each team—we are convinced that the money spent this time of year is well worth it. All it takes to run for UC President and Vice-President is 150 student signatures. Seven pairs of students successfully accomplished that task to earn the right to have their names on the ballot this year (one ticket, Omar A. Musa ’08 and Daniel Ross-Rieder ’08, have since dropped out of the race). Given that students are free to sign multiple petitions, this...
...higher education and are of profound importance to students. The UC should be leading the push for change, but right now, it is essentially silent on the matter. Part of the problem is the UC’s tactics: position papers may be a start, but they do not accomplish much in themselves. In spite of numerous such papers, TFs have not noticeably improved from past years, and coursepacks—a perennial favorite in all campaigns—are still unduly expensive. And TFs and coursepacks are among the smaller items the UC needs to tackle. The new leaders...
Moreover, the restrictions may only accomplish the opposite of their intended corollary...
...that there is some socioeconomic plan that could accomplish racial diversity,” a confident Mellen said, “but the board has rejected those alternatives...
...Speaker will also be under more pressure to push through lobbying and ethics reform but may find that harder to accomplish. After an election in which exit polls showed that voters are more concerned about corruption than the Iraq war, Pelosi needs to recover the high ground she lost with her endorsement of Murtha, who said he thought her reform measures were "total crap." It was bad enough that Murtha's candidacy turned the cable-news networks into a film festival of the grainy tapes from the Abscam sting in 1980, in which the Pennsylvania Congressman told an agent posing...