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The candidates for Undergraduate Council president and vice president listened last Monday night as Election Commission (EC) chair Michael L. Taylor ’08 read aloud eight single-spaced pages of rules governing this year’s campaign.
Tasked with perhaps the most thankless jobs of election season, the members of the commission say that their work is dirty, but that someone has to do it. The epic read-aloud is emblematic of the EC’s role.
Taylor and the commission ultimately voted to lift the ban on e-mail campaigning this year, but the practice is now tightly regulated: E-mails must include a disclaimer identifying the campaign, similar to how federal candidates approve messages at the end of television advertisements.
Surprised at the findings? The index is less about total funding (although, per capita, the U.S. is no world leader by that measure either), and more about how well aid dollars reach their beneficiaries. The index ranks 22 developed countries and the European Commission on how consistently each adheres to...
Humanitarian Response Index 2007 rankings: 1. Sweden 2. Norway 3. Denmark 4. Netherlands 5. European Commission 6. Ireland 7. Canada 8. New Zealand 9. United Kingdom 10. Switzerland 11. Finland 12. Luxembourg 13. Germany 14. Australia 15. Belgium 16. United States 17. Spain 18. Japan 19. France 20. Austria 21...