Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversial development occured at the committee's first meeting last Thursday when Ethan Cohen '86 of Quincy House took the chair following a secret ballot. It wasn't until after Cohen's election that Council Member Brian R. Melendez '86 said the committee had forgotten to consider the possibility of co-chairs--a practice which the officers of the council had discouraged in a memorandum circulated last Wednesday...
Treasurer Eliot T. Kieval '84 then moved to adopt co-chairs and nominated Felicia Eckstein '84 of Eliot House for the post. Just minutes after the secret ballot vote, Cohen found himself being joined at the committee's helm by Eskstein...
...Parliament, Kinnock, 41, a leftist with a pragmatic streak, has never served in a government post. Thus it was a measure of the demoralized Labor Party's desperate need for a new image, energy and, above all, unity that led it to choose overwhelmingly on the first ballot a candidate untested in the national arena...
...improving public schools. As private school fundraisers have shown, alumni are willing to donate time or money to the alma mater--aware that drunken cheers at the Homecoming game are inadequate support. For civic activists and businessmen, the interest is more concrete: graduates that can't read a ballot or sign a paycheck don't make good citizens or productive workers. These diverse groups share a common interest in making the schools run better, and could organize as Friends of, say. South Plantation High School...
That voice was all the more compelling in this chaotic campaign. Nine candidates appeared on the ballot: seven were respected political figures. Unless you covered them for a living, or carried a scorecard. the rush to fill the White vacuum was dizzying...