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Nearly 700 students cast their votes last week to fill recently opened Undergraduate Council (UC) seats, in special elections complicated by low voter turnout in Mather House and the resignation of former UC presidential candidate John F. Voith III ’07. Fewer than 10 people had voted in Mather only hours before the election was supposed to end on Thursday morning, prompting the UC’s Election Commission to extend the voting period in the House until noon on Friday, according to Commission Chair Michael B. Love ’08. “We were afraid...
...finale at the Torino Games this Sunday, Canada's finest sought out a little normality by hitting Torino's shopping malls and gorging at local ristoranti. Some players were "itching to play cards--friendly games," says defenseman Adam Foote, in a joking reference to the gambling scandal that has cast a shadow over the team's executive director, Wayne Gretzky. The Canadian superstars also grounded themselves with humility by mixing it up at the Olympic Village. "You're with the best athletes in the world," Canadian forward Brad Richards says of life in the insulated Village. "That's quite...
...Agassiz Theatre this year because of ongoing renovations at the Pudding’s 12 Holyoke St. home.The parade along Mass. Ave was not Berry’s usual red carpet crowd—her entourage included cows, llamas, Miss Massachusetts, the Harvard University Band, and the cast of the 158th production, “Some Like It Yacht.”“I was walking out of the Barker Center and I saw some drag queens, some cows grazing, and I was struck, so I decided to explore further,” said Billy F. Gray...
...college sports will tip off in San Diego, Salt Lake City, Jacksonville, and Greensboro.While it’s technically true that the Big Dance gets underway with a contest in Dayton between the two worst teams to make the field, we’re going to cast that interjection aside since that game is kind of like the tree falling in the wilderness.That leaves us one month, 28 days, from the opening tip of March Madness. And that leaves 26 days between this Saturday night and that first NCAA contest.Why is this pedantic babble important?Well, because by Saturday night...
...resigning,” he said. In special elections held last February, an “almost identical” number of candidates vied for eight spots, Love wrote in an e-mail. There were fewer resignations this year than last, he added. Students will be able to cast their votes on the UC website, www.uc.fas.harvard.edu, from noon today until noon on Thursday. The EC had originally wanted to hold the elections last Thursday through yesterday to allow newly-elected representatives to attend last night’s council meeting. But the elections were moved from Thursday to today because...