Word: petitioner
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Attention suddenly focused on the committee last year when for the first time a slate of prodivestment candidates made a bid for seats on the Board of Overseers. The candidates, who were nominated by petition, charged that Harvard's election procedures were unfairly weighted toward University nominees for the open...
The Young Committee, which had its first meeting this spring, was established three years ago before the most recent challenges to the election procedures by Alumni Against Apartheid. That activist group has sponsored a slate of candidates nominated by petition and running on a pro-divestment platform.
While members of the Young Committee have emphasized that the committee will not examine the current election, the seven-person panel may look at long-term policies governing election procedures and petition candidates. Young says that petition candidacies come under the rubric of the committee's mission, but will not...
The last time electoral rules were modified came in the wake of the committee, which recommended in 1973 that the number of signatures needed to nominate a candidate by petition be changed from 200 to a percentage of the alumni who voted in the previous years. This year, that percentage...
Imagine chowing down cheesecake, feasting on French fries and pigging out on potato chips with little worry about calories. This fat-filled fantasy is still just an overeater's dream, but it moved closer to reality this month when Procter & Gamble dispatched a truck from its Cincinnati headquarters to the...