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...sure its constituents are fully aware of its affairs, especially if it is holding a campus-wide referendum. Furthermore, on-line voting, though a convenient way to tally results, is not the optional way to ensure voter participation. Instead, council representatives should conduct the vote in a more direct manner-for example, by using the Harvard Dining Services keypads as was done during the Great Grape Debate...
Conducting the referendum in this manner would certainly require a considerable amount of preparation and manpower. But, then again, nobody ever said it was going to be easy...
After watching a few rounds of music lessons, home-baked goodies, and a mountain hike, we decided to drop by the Eliot auction for comparison. To our disappointment, we found a rather staid group of bidders. The auctioneers sported tuxes and bidding proceeded in a prim and proper manner. The massive dining hall seemed sparsely populated and certainly much quieter than its counterpart in Kirkland. I've been told there were several kegs of beer and its partakers in the backgrounds, but clearly they were merely bystanders in an otherwise refined performance...
...bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. --Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species...
When first-time filmmaker Keiko Ibi claimed her Oscar last month for this documentary short, she charmed audiences with her unvarnished manner. Clearly, she had a similar effect on her subjects--a group of now single senior citizens living on Manhattan's Lower East Side--who speak with touching candor here about love and loss in the years when middle age is a fond memory. Ibi never patronizes these men and women; she just allows them to wish--and be wistful...