Word: punch
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...last decade, a growing group of club members and alumni have raised concerns about their gender inequality and exclusivity, mounting small internal campaigns for change. That debate is already happening within the clubs. Several members say the topic of adding women to the punch comes up at least every year, though no club has ever voted...
When affordable land does pop up, the University often buys it, beating any female clubs to the punch, says the member of The Fox’s graduate board, who asked not to be named. “Harvard real estate gobbles everything that’s on the market...
...system. But IRV, at least initially, will likely strengthen the two-party system, because it will decrease the chances of a third-party spoiler. So politicians have little excuse not to push for it. More serious concerns involve educating voters about the ranking system and refitting (or replacing) older punch-card and pull-lever voting technologies. But asking voters to rank candidates in their order of preference is hardly an overwhelmingly unreasonable (or confusing) request, and the proliferation of electronic voting machines increases the prospects for widespread IRV elections. Indeed, IRV voting has been successfully implemented for elections in several...
...Unless they belong to sports teams, which gives them special “ins,” they are left to enjoy enthralling Undergraduate Council gatherings at Loker or risk proctor-intervention during short-lived Yard parties. Lucky sophomore men are given the opportunity to punch, but the reality is that each of the eight clubs (which have memberships ranging from thirty to forty-five men) can only take ten to fifteen newcomers. This computation means around nine percent of undergraduate men belong to final clubs. So what are the other ninety percent doing? Sure, some men have friends...
...voting system is vulnerable to imperfection, abuse and human error. And it should not be forgotten that 12% of voters nationwide (and more than 70% in dead-heat Ohio) will be using the punch-card ballots that caused such havoc in Florida in 2000. But the lack of transparency in electronic voting may be particularly problematic. "The reason people trust elections is that they can see what's going on," says David Dill, a computer-science professor at Stanford University and founder of the Verified Voting Foundation. "With electronic voting, the handling of the ballots, putting ballots in the ballot...