Word: monitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Differences in the house advising systems aregenerally due to the initiative of senior tutorswho monitor advising and house tutors, who arrangeinformal study breaks and student meetings...
...medical aspect of the exhibition continues in "Pinnacles of Desire." The artists replace the gurnies with steel metal stands that contain video monitors, and the bags are now silicone breast implants. The emphasis shifts to a more contemporary issue--or rather the latest development of the female body: breast augmentation as the product of commercialized sex. It is no coincidence that the metal apparatus mimics the configuration of a pair of breasts. The stands are large, square and metal, but they convey the symmetry and preposterous nature of surgically enhanced breasts. A montage of porno clips plays on one screen...
...thing to be trained (rather haphazardly) by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and quite another to find yourself confronted by 500 angry voters threatening to hold you hostage until more ballot papers arrive! Ah yes, the trials and tribulations of an election monitor...but let me start at the beginning...
...Monitoring in the run up to the elections involved attending mass political rallies and debates and ensuring that the process was correct, no intimidation took place and that party officials were not misinforming their constituents. In the event of a crisis, monitors were expected to leap into the fray and mediate. Only once did I have to do this, when members of the organizing party at a rally got a little hot under the collar at an opposition party which was distributing their party pamphlets within the meeting. In this case, once people had calmed down a little, apologies were...
...first day of the elections was a special voting day for those in hospitals, old age homes and prisons. As a monitor, I was assigned to a mobile voting station which took ballot papers, ballot boxes and cardboard ballot booths to voters in their hospital beds. It was one of the most moving experiences of my life...