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Recently, both a news story and a column by Jordana R. Lewis '02 in The Crimson have criticized the Harvard Republican Club (HRC) and have together comprised an uninformed attack on the club, its members and its recently elected president, Robert R. Porter '00-'02. We feel such an attack could not go unaddressed...
...constitution allows any dues-paid member in good standing to vote, in a board meeting a week before the election, the candidates made a "gentlemen's agreement" to focus on expanding the base of the club by "recruiting" those who had interest in the club and its activities. Porter, whom Lewis singled out by name, went even further to suggest a higher standard, asking that only members who attended at least one club function be allowed to vote. Ultimately, however, it was determined by all in attendance that, in fairness to all candidates, such a change would have...
Lewis was correct in her assertion that "Good Guys" do attend this school, "the gems that everyone takes for granted." Porter and the other 5 leaders elected to the Executive Board of the HRC on Wednesday, Dec. 6, however, stand at the head of the "Good Guy" pack...
Robert R. Porter '00-'02, the recently elected president of the Harvard Republican Club (HRC), solicited non-members to join the organization, immorally altering the outcome of the election results. He has justified his stratagem by claiming that all the students he targeted at least identified with the Republican ideology themselves...
...Porter was certainly not the only HRC candidate to play with the vote, and the HRC is certainly not the only student organization to conduct stilted and corrupt elections on campus. As such, it is telling that Porter thinks his actions justifiable and that he has assumed the presidency this past Monday. It seems that he cares not that the vote which secured his position contained elements that had no investment or interest in the HRC, nor that the position is certainly not his for the taking...