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FiCom took a different approach, with chair Teo P. Nicolais ’06 and vice-chair and vice-president elect Ian W. Nichols ’06 passing out beers to male members and Smirnoff Ice to female members...
President-elect Matthew J. Glazer ’06 spoke next as chair...
...council must also carefully consider how to change the way council members are elected. As Mahan implied in his presentation, if plans to decentralize the council come to fruition, general council elections no longer make sense; membership on the general council will not matter as much as membership on specific committees. Harvard undergraduates should expect that their representatives are able to do what they campaigned to do—on the proposed grants branch, social branch or advocacy branch—not elect representatives who are shoved onto committees for which they did not campaign and may not be qualified...
...most candidates who enjoy negligible national name recognition, the need to get out and campaign may be offset by their survival instinct. But the circumstances in which the election will be held may be less of a problem for the Shiite UIA list than for most others. It has the advantage of clerical backing and association with Grand Ayatollah Sistani, the supreme spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite majority, who has declared it a religious duty to go to the polls (an act that for many Iraqis will require considerable physical courage). The list's grounding in the most popular...
Council members peppered Mahan with questions about the plan for reorganizing the council, which will be a key issue during president-elect Matthew J. Glazer ’06’s term in office...