Word: burtonizing
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...difficulty began after Driskell and John A. Burton '01, the first all-black ticket for council leadership, overwhelmingly beat out four other tickets on a platform promising to unite the student body...
...legitimacy of their win was contested on the charge that Burton overspent and violated election rules...
...February, 10 council members sponsored an impeachment bill against Burton...
Last February, a majority of the council voted to expel Vice President John A. Burton '01 for unethical campaign practices. Although the vote was short of the necessary two-thirds required to remove an elected council officer, it signified a vote of no confidence in Burton. The appropriate response by Burton would have been resignation. Instead, the distrust between council members who voted for "impeachment" and the administration of Fentrice D. Driskell '01 only deepened...
...convey legitimately that input to administrators. But this admirable project, which would have done much to restore much of the council's credibility, was met with stubborn resistance by council conservatives. Although the project withstood a funding challenge, these council members--led by those who voted earlier to remove Burton--managed to seriously curtail the project's visibility. Now, the council expected to collect less than half of the original 500 surveys--a sample size that may not have much statistical significance. This is not to say the census project was not marred by other logistical errors. Nevertheless...