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...faculty also authorized Kagan to devise a possible plan for implementing the new grading scheme for current students. The Law School will hold a town hall meeting on Thursday for students to express their views on a transition phase...
...explained, “I actually want to know how these people handle pressure. I’ve never seen democracy before.” Even though he won’t be able to vote on Nov. 4, Gebeyehu is serving as the Thayer Hall captain of the Harvard Voter Outreach and Turnout Effort, putting him in charge of making sure the dorm’s residents are registered to vote. The debate, held at the University of Mississippi, was initially supposed to focus on issues of foreign policy, but the host, Jim Lehrer of PBS, took the first...
...custodial employees approaching with trash bags, and the excitement mounts. As soon as one of them tears down the previous week’s layers of posters, the first dance begins. Seven or eight eager posterers mob the most coveted spaces—reader boards near Thayer and Harvard Hall. Soon more crowd around, getting more anxious as the virgin brown surfaces vanish from sight. Taken from afar, the untrained observer sees only an orgy of arms and tape, flailing and indistinguishable...
That might, however, be very hard to see if, as the University's Daily Mississippian newspaper reported on Sept. 12, the audience of thousands right outside the debate hall watching by simulcast includes some unwelcome guests: the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klansmen won't be wearing robes or hoods or making "a big hoopla," says Imperial Wizard Richard Greene, 46, who refuses to divulge how many members the Mississippi chapter has. Nor will they take advantage of the designated protest zone outside the debate theater to stage one of their typical demonstrations - which include fiery...
...Gore's mock debates was set up in a Tennessee barn, Eckart said, including an entire debate hall - podium, TV studio and all. "But it was in rural Tennessee, his home state.... I felt it would make him more comfortable than being in a Hyatt somewhere sleeping in a hotel room...