Word: hymans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a month since the U.S. presidential election, but a new round of elections begin this week, at least for Harvard students. Even though it feels like we just elected Undergraduate Council President Robert M. Hyman '98 and Vice President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, it is already time to vote for the new council leaders. By now, everyone is sick of the campaign posters, debates and promises and cannot wait to see all of this come...
Rawlins and Michael A. O'Mary '99, her vice-presidential "running mate," announced their decision to run on the eve of the national elections. Rawlins, who began the "running-mate" concept last semester with Hyman, again joined a candidate who has worked for the same goals and who shares similar views. However, O'Mary will neither help nor hurt Rawlins, but he will try riding on her coattails to help...
Last year, Hyman and Rawlins ran on a platform called the "Student Bill of Rights." Among the things they believed students had a right to were "a safe campus", "gender equality," "privacy," a "responsible and responsive student government" and "better student services and public spaces." Most of the rights themselves are self-evident and non-controversial, since who would argue that student's should not have a safe campus or against gender equality? Hyman and Rawlins neglected the issues most important to students, like grade posting, better UHS service and improved MAC facilities...
...Rawlins is making her bid for the presidency, promising to finish what she and Hyman started. She has accomplished a good deal, including extensive work with anonymous HIV testing, Rape Aggression Defense classes and the student group and shuttle bus summits. Yet she is running on a platform of finishing what she and Hyman started precisely because they never tried hard enough to implement their ideas in the first place...
...only thing the council has shown students this year is that its own internal problems have prevented it from getting things done. After all, its legislation received about as much coverage as did the heated debates between Hyman and Rudd Coffey. These former presidential opponents could not put personal interests aside, and Coffey had to finally resign...