Word: illingworth
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...elections, slated to begin at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday morning, were postponed only hours before they were supposed to start by Associate Dean of the College David P. Illingworth ’71. They were rescheduled to start at noon yesterday, but that was pushed back as well. In the wee hours of this morning, the voting finally began; all undergraduates should wake up to an e-mail containing a unique voting link. Still, the long-delayed elections are even more of an embarrassment than the computer glitch last December during the council’s presidential elections, when...
...from yet another communication breakdown between the council and Illingworth’s office. The council has designed a new web-based voting system, which was intended to simplify the complicated process known as “ucvote” that used to be run through telnet. However, when Illingworth found out that this process would involve private student information (Student ID and PIN numbers) being stored on non-University servers, he balked...
...wonder, was the issue still unfixed the day before the election was scheduled to begin? The situation is eerily reminiscent of last May, when students had their hopes raised and then dashed when a planned Wyclef Jean and Jurassic 5 concert was cancelled because Illingworth and the Harvard Concert Commission, a subsidiary of the council, were unable to reach agreement in time to actually sell tickets to the concert...
...placed on the council. Certainly in the case of the concert and the election, the dean’s office should be held accountable for not making its concerns clear—nor timely—enough to allow the planned events to go forth smoothly. In both cases, Illingworth had reasonable objections to the council’s plans, but there’s no excuse for leaving the difficulties unresolved and then canceling activities as a result...
...think I would make an exception to the ‘no mass e-mail’ rule, but I need to be sure that this would work,” Illingworth said...