Word: pr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arrow-Sims amendment called for the Faculty to nominate all candidates for the Faculty Council; any Faculty member with 20 or more nominations would be a candidate for election to the Council. The election would be run on a proportional representation (PR) system, which gives minority candidates a better chance for election...
Hayes will need support both from East Cambridge and from Brattle Street to win. In the Proportional Representation (PR) system under which Cambridge operates, however, this may be a difficult combination to muster, for above all Hayes needs number one votes, the rest don't mean much...
Under Cambridge PR, a voter ranks the candidates in order of his preference by writing 1, 2, 3, etc. next to their names on the ballot. The number of votes needed to be elected is determined by dividing the total number of votes cast by the number of candidates plus one and then adding one to the quotient...
Today, most proclamations are initiated by public relations men anxious for some free publicity for their clients. A PR man writes a proclamation which is then signed by a public official or his secretary and the PR man hopes, printed in the local media...
Hollis B. Chenery, professor of Economics, replied that a PR election would "be simple and would seem to be fair ... It is hard for the Dean to be as fair as a representative process." Sims said the PR system was the only way to keep a disciplined minority from taking over the elections...