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...Sara Mae Berman is Running for School Committee," reads the campaign advertisement. The candidate, a women's record-holder in the Boston Marathon, is pictured running, quite literally running down a hill, near the rear of a group of happy children...
...Berman ad perhaps inadvertently underscores a central problem in this year's Cambridge School Committee election, and the attempts to cope with it by many of the 16 candidates in the race. Faced with an unprecedented level of voter apathy, a statutory ban on campaigning along party lines, and an ever-dwindling number of broad, substansive issues, candidates have had to seek alternative ways to stir up voter interest in the November 4 election...
...Berman and her supporters have run through the streets of Cambridge distributing campaign literature to somewhat befuddled pedestrians; cars equipped with loudspeakers have cruised the same streets incessantly for several days, urging Cambridge citizens to register to vote; large, two-color posters, widely distributed throughout the city by supporters of the slate of candidates endorsed by Cambridge Convention '75 implore voters not to "sit this...
Virtually all of the candidates have appealed to members of the Harvard community, including students, for support in the election. Berman explained that "even in a school committee election, if Harvard chooses not to vote, then their feelings are not represented, and that could ultimately hurt them...
Finally, of course, the whole process has to be repeated for the school committee vote. CANDIDATES FOR SCHOOL COMMITTEE BERMAN, Sara Mae +GESELL, Peter G. 23 Fayette Street 62 Hubbard Avenue BUCKLEY, Stephen D. HOLWAY, David J. 147 Prospect Street 52 Park Avenue CATAVOLO, George +KOOCHER, Glenn S. 202 Elm Street 114 Trowbridge Street CENTANNI, Ralph T. +MAYNARD, Joseph E. 60 Sixth Street 214 Harvard Street ELLIS, Priscilla +PIERCE, Charles M. 24 Francis Avenue 85 Chilton Street FANTINI, Donald A. RAVANIS, Theodore D. 15 Day Street 35 Lopez Street +FITZGERALD, James SHUMAN, Charles H., Jr. 137 Otis Street 124 Webster...