Word: caste
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...council neglected to administer the vote with even the most basic of safeguards. Council members have acknowledged that ballots cast Wednesday were left unsecured in the council's Canaday office. And throughout the referendum, many students were not required to show identification before casting their vote. Even a new-comer to council intrigues could see how pathetic the referendum was. "If you wanted to, you could vote as many times as you wanted," observed...
Even the security of the voting has been calledinto question. Council members acknowledged thisweek that ballots cast Wednesday were leftunsecured in the council's Canaday office...
Certainly, the cast and the play, particularly the somewhat rushed opening scene, need work. Character and story development suffer needlessly due to the time constraints. O'Brien might do herself well by trying to expand the length of the show, or at least slow it down. Not only would it establish the play as a more serious piece of work, it might allow the audience to digest more of its valuable message. Right now, it is so jam-packed with intelligence that some of it can't help but leave us feeling a little illiterate...
...further complicated by Ionesco's inability to be succinct. His own direction suggests human rhinos roaming about the stage while Berenger goes on for pages and pages struggling with the invasive political disease that threatens his humanity. Ionesco's script is extremely challenging, yet well-executed by both cast and crew (despite a few slow set changes). For two and a half hours Goor, Ben Davis and Alexis Susman admirably sustain all the energy and intensity their frantic plight requires as they try to stave off the advancing rhinos. But Berenger's ambiguous triumph in the final is delayed...
...Indeed, the concern that Justin Label seemed to have when I talked to him was not about the petition going to referendum, but that the five separate issues would be voted on as a single bill, and thus by voting to oppose the term bill increase students would necessarily cast a vote on a number of other measures that they might not agree with, such as semiannual elections. This, I believe is the "packing" with Gabay was concerned...