Word: election
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Roosevelt said he supports Bok's statement that students should help elect legislators who promise to put economic sanctions on South Africa...
First, alumni should elect these three candidates because they are more than merely symbolic victims of Bok's monumental mishandling of the election. For the first time in the history of the Board, candidates--Plotz, Simmons and Seidman--have placed themselves on the ballot by petition. They are the first people to try to challenge the Harvard hierarchy that mechanically sends willing minions to do its bidding on the Board...
...election process is largely ritualistic, from the secret ballot by which candidates are elected or rejected to the initiation ceremony in the darkened Signet library where each member-elect must read an original piece of writing before an invisible crowd of taunting members. At the end of the ceremony, a red rose is given to each new member to be saved for posterity and one day returned to the club with the member's first book or significant work. T.S. Eliot's initiation rose is on display in the library today...
...remind voters that three candidates for the Board of Overseers, if elected, will actively work toward divestment. You suggest that the board will be quite "different" if activist candidates are elected. For myself, I cannot see that the real situation is any "different" this year. You do not remind us that other candidates push for other goals, which, like divestment, may or may not happen to be acceptable to individual voters. All candidates worth voting for always push their own policies and preferences--in finances, in curriculum, in academic administration, and otherwise--and presumably we elect them on the basis...
...spring sandstorms blew across the country, millions of Sudanese went to the polls to elect representatives for a new 301-member National People's Assembly, which will write a constitution and choose a permanent government. After years of Nimeiri's harshly autocratic, one-party rule, Sudan seemed to revel in its new chance at democracy. Candidates representing some 30 different parties, ranging from Muslim fundamentalists to Communists, competed for assembly seats. Major cities like Khartoum and Omdurman were swathed in campaign posters and political banners. "The Sudanese nation," said Suwar al Dahab, "has decided to go ahead with democracy...