Word: cooped
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Eleven students from Harvard and MIT seeking nomination for election to the Harvard Cooperative Society's board of directors as members of an informal slate sympathetic to the store's union organization effort will wrap up their signature drive today. Petitions for the students' nominations are due at the Coop this afternoon...
...gain access to the ballot for the 11 positions on the board of directors set aside for undergraduates and graduates from the two universities, each member of the group--which calls itself "the cooperative slate"--must submit a petition with at least 100 signatures from Coop members...
Karen Jacoby, secretary to James A. Argeros, general manager of the Coop, said yesterday she will collect the petitions and check for duplicate signatures, adding that there would be no bias against the members of the cooperative slate in the nomination procedure...
...Coop will mail ballots to all members next month and will count the returned votes by computer after the April 28 voting deadline. Candidates "are nominated by the student body, and the student body is the one that elects them. The computer doesn't know that they're on the slate," Jacoby said...
...election for the student directors comes more than a month after the March 26 union election, in which Coop employees will vote to determine whether to give the United Food and Commercial Workers the right to represent them in contract negotiation with the store's management...