Word: liston
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...editorial espouses two contradictory views, both false. The attacks on Liston and the Undergraduate Council in general reflect a deep anti-U.C. cynicism that pervades The Crimson. Despite past wrongdoings, Liston has performed effectively as U.S. president so far, according to several U.C. members. Meetings are shorter and more efficient and numerous promising activities are in the planning stages...
Last month, Joshua D. Liston '95 was elected president of the Undergraduate Council. As we noted in a staff editorial on the elections, there were several small problems with Liston as a candidate. He was nearly impeached from his post as vice-president for administrative incompetence; a referendum he conducted was invalidated because of numerous procedural mistakes; he was temporarily removed from the council this past fall because of excessive absences. Despite all of these problems in his past, Liston won election as U.C. president with a mere 0.58 percent of the student body...
...most recent elections, this argument seems quite compelling. But the most recent elections, in which 99 students ran for 81 seats, may not be the most representative in terms of voter turnout. If you live in a house where there are no more candidates than council seats--as Liston does--would you bother to vote for U.C. representatives? If we take a more long-term outlook and look back on previous elections, we see that voter turnout was not always so low. In the fall of 1993, voter turnout was approximately 50 percent. While not amazing, this number is certainly...
...answer, we believe, is simple. Former council president David L. Hanselman '94-'95 has a wife, but look at all those other council heavyweights. Label, Gregoire, Fine, Liston, Coffey, Kaufman, Hyman--they're all men in need of romance and, we're sure Dave would agree, someone to come home to after a long meeting in Sever...
When a student has had no contact with the Undergraduate Council, it should not be surprising that he or she feels apathy towards the council. Current President Josh Liston's platform of familiarizing the student body with the council represents a necessary and effective way of bridging the gap between the council and its constitutents...