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...lucky Harvard student, Shankar Duraiswamy '02, attended the inauguration with less partisan goals in mind, after winning a trip to the inauguration through the Institute of Politics (IOP) after guessing the final electoral count within one vote...
...quote former IOP Director Alan K. Simpson, we do not ask people to take a "saliva purity test." Republican candidates for national office this past year, including President-elect George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), sought to broaden the outreach of the party to include those who previously may not have identified with the GOP. The Republican Party and the HRC do not and will not condition acceptance on any sort of litmus test. Our organization's goal is to motivate, educate and inspire students in the Republican cause, not to draw battle lines and divide students...
...available positions were uncontested. Yet these initial elections based on objective criteria for eligibility serve as a good model for the future, providing for more open and inclusive student leadership. We also hope that the future structure will provide, as SAC did, a venue for students to discuss IOP-wide issues outside the bounds of specific program committees...
...promising that several former SAC members are among those who will be leading the organization into its new year. Especially in this time of restructuring, the IOP should not lose these members' dedication and expertise. Unfortunately, however, the election rules, which explicitly forbade seniors from running for positions on the interim committee, may have arbitrarily excluded those undergraduates with the most institutional knowledge. In addition to working with the six staff members and graduates whom Pryor will appoint, the members of the Task Force would do well to seek the input of these seniors so that the value of their...
...original announcement, IOP director and former Sen. David H. Pryor had indicated that he would appoint the committee chairs for the coming semester. We are glad that he did not do so, as the election process provides for more openness than would a hand-picking the leadership--especially after Pryor's sudden November decision to dissolve SAC altogether. However, this about-face itself serves as a reminder that students need a strong voice and permanent role at the institute. In this light, the IOP's elections are a positive sign; the more decisions that are reached by open deliberation with...