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...length of the primary season. Many have argued that a delegate selection process beginning in January with the lowa caucus and ending in June with the California primary is too long. They cite exhaustion of candidates, boredom of the public, the expense and divisiveness of a prolonged campaign, and a bias in favor of candidates who can devote themselves to campaigning full-time for an extended period...
With 25 months left before the 1984 lowa caucus, the DNC has hopes of conducting an objective reform without all the politicking which comes naturally to such a review. But political considerations have inevitably snuck into the proceedings. Kennedy and former Vice President Walter F. Mondale were each allowed two members on the 69-member commission. Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio) has a personal aide on the advisory committee, and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) and Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) are both on the mailing list...
Former one-term lowa Senator John Culver '54 lost his seat last November in the "Tuesday Night Massacre" of several prominent moderate and liberal Democrats. Presently, he, like Governor Peabody, also practices law in Washington. D.C. But at Harvard, he was one of the finest running backs in the school's history, holding the record for most touchdowns scored...
When John Warnock Hinckley Jr., a 25-year-old drifter from Evergreen, Colo., allegedly shot Reagan and three others on March 30, the debate over handgun control resumed full-force. Former Sen. John Culver '54 (D-lowa), a liberal who lost his bid for re-election last November and who was a fellow at the Institute of Politics this spring, decried the nation's current laws, saying. "This is horrendous--no one is safe." Speaking at a fund-drive event in Sanders Theater, President Bok expressed his regret for the incident and related a phrase heard many times that...
Many prominent political, literary and academic figures are on the 83-person committee organizing the scholarship. They include: Marguerite S. Robinson '56, dean of students at Tufts University: John C. Culver '54, former senator from lowa: and Stephen Stamas '53, vice-president of Exxon...