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...presidency and vice presidency handily with over 1,000 votes each. Undergraduates voted to downsize the council to 50 members and rejected a proposal to increase the term-bill fee. The results were announced fairly promptly after midnight on Dec. 15. All this, and ucvote didn't even crash...
Next year, the squeeze may prove even tighter...
Back then, a friend pointed out to me that there are few questions more loaded than the casual, "So, what kind of music do you like?" Similar questions ("What are your favorite movies?"), more basic ones ("Where are you from?") or even more personal ones ("Do you get along with your parents?") do not carry as many connotations, accurate or otherwise, as the most average answer to the question of musical taste. Consider the associations evoked by the following possible replies...
...This year, it's a little different. Despite a persistent affection for Third Eye Blind, she's turned out very well and can perhaps even be trusted to choose her own music. Five years ago I gave her a folk-girl identity in the form of a mix tape; now my highest ambition is to share with her some songs I've really loved. In the end, this is a higher ambition. If she loves those songs as I do, then they are a more lasting form of indoctrination--a real gift of self, if you want to give...
Almost no one, not even Driskell herself, expected her to win by a landslide of 1,215 votes--more than double the total of the second-place contender...