Word: membership
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...President Timothy D. Turner ’09 said he agreed that the election has sparked a lot of excitement in the membership. Leading up to the election, the BSA has been politically active on campus and off, canvassing in New Hampshire and hosting viewings of the presidential debates. Turner added that the enthusiasm was not just because of Obama’s race, saying that the senator ran a post-racial campaign...
...Across the table, Christian L. Garland ’10, the Dems’ secretary, is helping Membership Chair Marianne Eagan ’10 call students to ask them to come on the club’s weekend campaign trip. Garland is the author of the amalgam of club announcements and biting satire known as the “Harvard College Democrats Weekly Bulletin.” Peppered with sentences like “BRING UR CELL PHONEZ AND UR LAPTOPS, ’cause we gon’ hit up Collaradda” and phrases like...
...Maldonado, who is also the HRC’s membership and publicity director, admits that Palin’s selection “makes my job a little bit tougher. If you’re here and a Republican, people are going to call you out on the whole Palin thing. People start challenging you and it does kind of bring out the fighting spirit in you and energizes you and make you a little bit more passionate about what she does...
...This problem is compounded by the lack of transparency in states’ procedures for maintaining voter lists. A study by The New York Times indicated that Colorado, Louisiana, and Michigan all had a decline in the membership on voter lists since August 1 of this year that cannot be explained by deaths and emigration alone. Colorado, for instance, which has had not only a number of highly visible registration drives but a net increase in population, has shown a net loss of 100,000 voters since 2004. A report from the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York...
...Even more devastating is the possibility that the uptick in high-profile crime will jeopardize Croatia's effort to become a full member of the E.U., for which it is currently a candidate. "This is a clear step back for Croatia's quest towards membership," said Hanes Svoboda, the European Parliament's Croatia monitor. "Either the government would impose some stability and order, or Croatia will not be able to join the E.U. anytime soon," Svoboda said in a radio interview...