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...accordance with UC bylaws, a replacement VP was elected by secret ballot at a meeting of the full council, on May 13. Clay T. Capp ’06, who had run unsuccessfully for the position in the December elections (as Glazer’s running mate), defeated graduating council member Jason L. Lurie ’05, 22-20. His election by a narrow margin—against an outgoing council member—and his selection by the outgoing council, not by the student body, both spell a tenuous mandate for Capp, who must now tread lightly...
What Glazer and his allies were unable to achieve at the ballot box, they were able to accomplish through dirty politics, resorting to shady backdoor political maneuvers to force out a popularly elected official, apparently just because they did not want to work with him—and some even resorted to threats...
...rush is on to copy California. A group called Cures for Florida hopes to get a $1 billion initiative, modeled on Proposition 71, on the statewide ballot next year. Washington Governor Christine Gregoire last week signed a bill allotting $350 million from the state's tobacco-suit settlement to life-science research, which could include stem-cell work. But lawmakers who defeated a bill to protect stem-cell research have promised a fight over how the money is spent when it starts to flow in 2008. New Jersey is mulling a plan to devote $380 million to a research facility...
...would be solidly trounced in Saturday's National Assembly election. Chen, who opposes any talk of reunification with mainland China, had seen his popularity rating plunge to 39%, his lowest yet, in the fallout from Lien's and Soong's trips. But that number didn't count at the ballot box: the DPP was a surprise winner in the National Assembly poll, snagging 43% of the votes cast, compared with 39% for Lien's Kuomintang and 6% for Soong's People First Party-both of which want improved ties with China...
Former Undergraduate Council (UC) vice-presidential candidate Clay T. Capp ’06 was elected UC vice president by a plurality of members yesterday, narrowly defeating outgoing senior Jason L. Lurie ’05 22-20 in a secret ballot vote...