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...Haddock-Riley ticket because of their emphasis on making student life affordable by eliminating fees for social events and laundry, as well as reducing the cost of sourcebooks. “We believe that he has the experience necessary to get the issues they put forward in their platform accomplished,” Moore said. At yesterday’s forum, UC presidential candidate John F. Voith ’07 opened by noting his steadfast belief in the UC and his plans for its reform. “We don’t want to waste money on events...
Grimeland and Hadfield were insulted. And we should be too. If this election is to have any semblance of authenticity, it must not be decided behind closed doors. A ticket should earn our support based not on their ability to convince others not to run, but on their platform and qualifications...
...Then again, it’s hard to run on the basis of your platform if you can’t really decide what it is. Yesterday made two unlikely bedfellows, as the Harvard Republican Club and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgendered, and Supporters Alliance offered a joint condemnation of Voith-Gadgil for “misleading” (read: contradictory) statements on the future presence of the Reserve Officer Training Corps and military recruiters at Harvard. To quote the statement, this pandering is “both dishonest in principle and harmful in practice.” I couldn?...
With the council’s reputation as a hotbed of political machinations, perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the only ticket with a straightforward, consistent platform is the comparative outsiders, Grimeland and Hadfield. This refreshing lack of entrenchment almost outweighs their disconcerting dearth of council know-how—if only their proposals were bound by the limits of pragmatic reason...
...foisting the blame off on the EC is the easy way out, and it doesn’t account for the platform discrepancies that have become the norm, if not the rule, over the last few election cycles...