Word: elected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...logic functioned thus: To alleviate disparity, The Crimson should automatically elect female editors--including herself, of course. I thought she was joking. Yet she was quite clear in her belief that the comp would be unnecessary and tedious. She, and other women, deserved their editorships immediately--without any hassle like a comp...
Also in Winthrop, we find support for political corruption: "Why should more dishonest representatives empty the U.C. coffers into other Houses? Elect Brian Malone. He'll loot for you! Your new futon is only a vote away!" Cynicism at its best. Pork makes the world go round...
...course, our absolute favorite was the well-researched pork barrel campaign: "Want cable in North? Elect Randy Fine...
Happily, The Crimson (and many other organizations) almost never cut compers. There are other organizations on this campus, however, that rarely elect compers...
...have a very specific meaning in mind when we demand "leadership" from politicians. We demand simple values that have fallen by the wayside over the last two generations: responsibility and fairness. We elect politicians to resolve our country's fiscal life. Today this requires real leadership. It is only when they neither raise taxes, nor cut spending, and allow the youth tax to grow, that they fail all of us and jeopardize the future of our community...