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...with last year’s lewd Class Day and “requested” that the Senior Class Committee avoid comedians in this year’s ceremony. The not-so-subtle intervention of the administration is unfair to the Class of 2005 and detracts from what ought to be a student-focused...
...President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 continues to push his agenda for council reform, it would be sadly hypocritical for his right-hand man not to relinquish the power that he now holds as a result of the very kind of procedural mishap that the council ought to fix. And though he is by no means bound to go beyond the council bylaws as they currently stand, Capp should seize the chance to demonstrate real commitment to the student body by choosing the honorable course, and by putting his fate in the hands of his peers...
While we feel that Capp’s selection as vice president exposes real flaws in the council’s rules of procedure, we also recognize that, under the rules as they now stand, his election was legitimate. The UC ought to move on from the regrettable circumstances of Capp’s election to focus on what it needs to get done through the end of the school year and over the summer. That business, however, ought to include changes to the council’s bylaws to reflect the inadequacy of the current system of internally choosing...
Bush’s very public pro-democracy stance on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union is not likely to win friends in Moscow, where, last month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that President Putin had become too powerful and ought to respect democracy. It does, however, demonstrate great apparent consistency in the president’s foreign policy. It seems that George W. Bush might actually be genuinely committed to spreading democracy to those corners of the world in which it is foreign. In that effort, Bush has shown himself ready to break the informal rules...
Supporters countered this claim, sometimes heatedly, arguing that voters ought to select their mayor, and direct election would eliminate the political wrangling among councillors for the mayor’s seat...