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...message they’re sending is insulting to the other candidates and to the membership at large, in addition to just making them look really, really desperate. Dropping down portrays the position dropped into as a sort of consolation prize for the dropper’s thwarted political dreams, and what’s worse, it denigrates the efforts of those who were running for the position from the start...
...stretch to say they are generally more informed and more passionate about the position than any former, losing Treasurer candidate. In dropping down, people get in the way of the most prepared and enthusiastic candidate being elected. So how much do they really care about the membership...
Hopefully in most cases, the membership of a student group will be thoughtful enough to see through drop-downers’ performances, and will vote for candidates who actually want the contested position. But on the off chance that they don’t, this non-constructive practice should be “dropped down” off of student group constitutions—in fairness to other candidates and, most importantly, for the sake of the people they’re supposed to represent...
With neither tradition nor reputation to stand on, BMF was fueled solely by this devotion and belief of the membership. Keith Bernard ’99 remembers that, without the option of mass e-mail, the group went out to Boston University and Boston College on the T to advertise their events by standing out in the cold and handing out handbills...
...have an organization that is growing because it’s doing a better job of getting its membership involved,” says Sherman, who was BMF president his senior year. “We remembered what it was like to have fun together…for most if not all of my membership junior and senior year, we had 10 out of 5 of fun,” he adds, referring to Harvard’s disgraceful 2.62 out of 5 student satisfaction rating...