Word: jacobsen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scandal started to unravel when junior James C. Jacobsen, the assembly vice president, privately confronted the president of the government, junior Kathryn E. Sampeck, with evidence that he said proved that she had stuffed a ballot box while working as a poll watcher in a campus cafeteria...
Faced with Jacobsen's evidence, Sampeck publicly admitted that she had stuffed ballots, announcing her resignation the next day at a meeting of the assembly election committee, said William F. A. Penn, chairman of the government's finance committee...
Sampeck hinted in her resignation speech that she was not the only one who had cheated and suggested that Jacobsen also committed election indiscretions, Penn said...
...What I did was just a reaction to what was going on," Sampeck said in an interview, adding that she had cheated in retaliation against Jacobsen's earlier cheating...
...outgoing president's insinuations prompted the assembly to form the ad hoc committee, composed of students, to investigate the election. Late last month, the committee its report, which cited a spate of constitutional violations, stated that Jacobsen--who was chairman of the election committee--was not an officially enrolled student, and called for new elections...