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The protesters are demanding that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva step down and call a new election. They are mainly supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a bloodless coup in 2006 and now lives abroad rather than serve a prison term for a corruption conviction. After...
Instead of having each senior spring candidate upload a transcript and provide two recommendations as candidates did in the first two rounds, this new election process will seek consultation from the director of undergraduate studies for each relevant department based on academic records obtained from the registrar.
According to Logan S. McCarty, the organization’s vice president, this new procedure arose from student and faculty concerns about the nature of the final senior election, where half the number of invited applicants find out a week before Commencement that they have not been elected into the...
During last November’s UC election, Bowman and Hysen ran on the policy of “Bringing Harvard Online” and identified Hysen’s background in computer science as an advantage that set the pair apart, Hysen says.
Another irony is that Abhisit's Democrats have traditionally been the party to most strongly advocate having a professional military uninvolved in politics. But their interests have converged in an anti-Thaksin alliance as the ousted leader continues his involvement in politics while in exile, allegedly funding the current protests...