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...does my experience last spring relate to this year’s male-dominated UC ballot? After all, this election may simply be an anomaly, considering that last year, two of the three UC vice presidential candidates were women. However, the connection that I see between the two occurrences is in how campus figures have reacted to the lack of women running for the UC. The answer to the "problem" of female representation is not a problem that needs to be retroactively addressed by male members of the UC, as some candidates have suggested. This issue does not call...
...ballot. One woman, Morgan C. Wimberley ’08, actually does appear on the ballot, but she (and her running mate) have acknowledged that they don’t actually want to win this election, and the candidate herself has yet to make an appearance at any public debate. Has this woman been bullied out of running for the UC? More likely, Wimberley has just gotten her own joke and not-so-subtly removed herself from all of the "politics" of this election...
...absurdity of the EAC-sponsored referendum has nothing to do with the sentiment behind its proposition: Encouraging environmental awareness about potentially dangerous gases is a good thing. However, the EAC has failed to present a ballot detailed enough to be supportable...
...Among all the information rallied to their cause, supporters of the referendum did not include any cost estimate (read: an idea of what Harvard will have to sacrifice in order to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions). The ballot question, as it was first proposed, clearly stated, however, that a “yes” vote on the EAC’s referendum means that the student “recognize[s] that this will take sacrifice and innovation from across the FAS community, and pledge[s] to do [his/her] part to realize these reductions while [he/she is] at Harvard...
...Supposedly, critics simply don’t understand the urgency of the situation: The world will end if we don’t do this! Yet it is precisely because of the seriousness of this issue that we are cautious: Proponents of the ballot should cease their well-meaning campaign to push for a vague measure simply on the grounds that it will “send the right message.” In doing so, the EAC undermines the credibility of its own cause—and the likelihood of actually finding a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...