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...There's Method to his Moderation
Here is where the first principles come in. Life is messy. It is often maddeningly so, as in the case of Florida. Over many centuries, people lucky enough to live in democracies have devised a method to draw some kind of certainty from life's irregularities. Through their representatives they write laws, and these laws become neutral, objective principles to which everyone can appeal. A law is intended to bring order out of chaos. When it turns out that the law is poorly suited to its purposes or otherwise deficient, then it can be changed. But it must be changed...
...come under fire mainly for its method of succession, in which applicants were selected by current SAC members. Instead, the decision-making last week was based on objective standards of participation, with every student who had attended half of any student committee's meetings eligible to vote for that committee's election. The election process may still have far to go; turnout was estimated at only 50 percent of eligible voters, and candidates for seven of the 13 available positions were uncontested. Yet these initial elections based on objective criteria for eligibility serve as a good model for the future...
...election must end sometime. Even with a recount and an extended deadline, whoever came out on top was doomed to be haunted by legitimacy doubts for the next four years. The race was so close that it was within the margin of error of any vote-counting method, leading Agassiz Professor of Zoology Stephen Jay Gould to suggest that the election should be decided by a simple flip of a coin...
While we agree with some of Benhabib's criticisms of Social Studies organization, we do not condone the method in which she went about expressing her views. Leaving an institution is not a constructive mode of addressing problems, once identified. Benhabib should have tried to effect change from within the University's structure before jumping ship for Yale...