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...comprising two committees, not three—cut seats on the council by one third. Second, more incumbents decided to run for UC—52 percent of UC members are incumbents this year, whereas last year, only a third returned, according to UC Public Relations Director Benjamin W. Milder ’08. The members cited the improved state of the UC as the reason incumbents returned in full force. Whereas the UC ended the spring of 2005 with the resignation of its vice president, it finished last year with a major legislative accomplishment—eliminating the Campus...
Students vying for Undergraduate Council seats this year will face the most competitive election yet, Council leaders said yesterday. According to Undergraduate Council (UC) Public Relations Director Benjamin W. Milder ’08, 125 students are competing for 33 slots this election cycle, which begins today and continues until Thursday, with an average of 3.79 candidates per seat. This year is just a fraction more competitive than the previous record in 2003, when an average of 3.78 candidates ran per seat. Every House election will be competitive, with at least three candidates per seat, and 77 freshmen will...
...Life Committee, last semester. “Since all these changes to the UC happened at the tail end of reading period, not all returning students might be aware that [the UC is] now better suited to meet student needs,” UC Public Relations Director Benjamin M. Milder ’08 said. The UC tabled at the freshmen and upperclass activities fair, sponsored a general information session as well as one geared toward female undergraduates, and has teamed up with the Vote or Die campaign, which aims to increase minority representation on the Council. Haddock also said...
...Landers, a former member, tells Dick. "People were hired, they were put into the screening room, put into the rating chair and started rating films." Further, those who challenge the MPAA rating for a particular film are not allowed to cite movies with similar scenes that got a milder rating. "It's not like a legal proceeding where you can quote precedent," says Wayne Kramer, director of The Cooler. The legal equivalent to this strange rule would be that every plaintiff in a racial prejudice case before the Supreme Court was obliged to argue Brown v. Education all over again...
...subject of a much milder form of it, every time I flew out of Ben Gurion. Security officials, plainly, are charged with determining whether fliers are Jewish are not. My name could go either way. The Israelis know it's rude by Western standards to come right out and ask, so they have a set of questions meant to settle the matter: Do you have family here in Israel? Did you ever volunteer on a kibbutz? Do you speak Hebrew? Some prayers maybe? That you learned for your baht mitzvah? What are your children's names? And this last time...