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More than a year before Iowa and New Hampshire Republicans vote on their 2008 presidential pick, Governor Mitt Romney has already won the Ec 10 primary. N. Gregory Mankiw, the Beren professor of economics who heads Harvard’s introductory course on the subject, has joined Romney’s Commonwealth Political Action Committee, which is likely to serve as a launchpad for the outgoing governor’s White House...
...guess is that it will have very little effect on Ec 10 enrollment,” said Mankiw, whose course enrolls more than 900 students...
...residential areas, such as Eliot St., to serve liquor and stay open late. The councillors also rightfully highlighted the ill effects of the Licensing Commission’s stinginess in doling out liquor licenses. Currently, a liquor license in Harvard Square costs $400,000 to buy. As any Ec 10 student knows, that type of entry cost is greatly inhibitive to attracting new (and not nationally branded) restaurants to the Square. If the HSDF. actually wants to make Harvard Square “something different” than the rest of the world (as then-HSDF president G. Pebble Gifford...
...EC can do this in a number of simple ways. First, the EC should dramatically increase the number of signatures required to get on the ballot. Second, the EC should allow students only to sign for one ticket; currently the names and signatures are only vetted to make sure the signatories are in fact current undergraduates. Candidates who are fully invested in running should still have no trouble getting on the ballot...
Third, the EC might consider making it more difficult to sign for a candidate; the current sheet is often filled out with a mindless flick of the pen, and some students don’t even know what they are signing for. Requiring that students fill in more information might make them think twice before signing...