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Soon-to-be Undergraduate Council President Andrea R. Flores ’10 paced while awaiting the results of the student government elections last night, exchanging nervous hugs and worried looks with anxious staffers. When election officials announced that she had been voted into the UC’s highest office, Flores—bundled in the arms of running-mate Kia J. McLeod ’10 and flanked by friends and campaign staffers—looked on in a state of shocked surprise. Flores stood quietly amidst a crowd of her supporters, absorbing a moment made...
Almost from the moment that federal prosecutors charged Blagojevich with scheming to sell President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat to the highest bidder, a diverse coalition of local, state and national politicians has called on him to step down. The state legislature on Monday took the first steps to start impeachment proceedings, and state attorney general Lisa Madigan has appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court to invoke an obscure law to declare Blagojevich unfit (at least temporarily) for office. Over the weekend, there were media reports that Blagojevich could resign as early as Monday. But late Sunday...
...would be fitting for a man who has made a career of campaigning against career politicians to make a short stay of it in the highest office in the state. But Quinn will still have to work hard to live up to his own code of conduct. As Blagojevich and his predecessors have shown, it doesn't take too long to be corrupted by the same power that has swallowed four of the past eight governors...
...pressures of a year abroad. “Social studies was pretty upfront,” she says. “They’d love for you to go abroad for a semester, maybe not a year.” While the social studies concentration has the highest proportion of students who go abroad, according to Director of Studies for social studies Anya Bernstein, only one person has concentrated in Social Studies after spending a full year studying off-campus. “I’ve watched people crash and burn trying...
...would never approve of anything that was not of the highest quality,” said former advisee Alexander M. More, a graduate student in history. “She had a commanding professional presence that was only matched by the kindness and generosity she displayed to her students...