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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bickering started last year, when club secretary Brad Artson '81 ran for vice president against Daniel Esty '81. Esty, who had made an unsuccessful bid for club president earlier in the year, was generally considered an up-and-coming member of the club. But the first election was thrown out because the member who gave one of the seconding speeches turned out not to be a member at all--along with some of the voters. The club held a second election, which was also thrown out, this time because some members cast proxy ballots, which are not permitted...
...leadership of the club, especially to Artson, who planned to run for president, the new members posed a major threat. "If they had all showed up at the election meeting," noted one sophomore who ran for club office, "we would have been demolished." Some members even favored invalidating the new memberships. But the conflict between the freshmen and the older members never materialized. Both groups rapidly learned that they were on the same side of most of the issues. Everyone wanted more debates, more lobbying action, more money, and more activities--but neither side realized that a consensus existed until...
...will mean only the end of the machine's invulnerability, not of its influence in Chicago politics. The city is set up on a weak-mayor, strong-city council system, which with a non-machine mayor suggests a return to the feudal, pre-Daley years when free-wheeling bosses ran wild, getting their hands into more cookie jars than modern-day Chicagoans can imagine even exist. Some of the more wily power-brokers might ally with Byrne and try to co-opt her. In any case, the people of Chicago will face four years of back-stabbing and bickering while...
This week the student assembly met for the second time in its new session. Many of the delegates are new to the assembly, and most of them ran with the stated intent of making the assembly more effective in translating student interests into action. The question, then, is whether the assembly can become more successful at representing undergraduate interests...
Please don't hate me," she cried as she ran from the room. All she had done was accidentally spill a glass of water on the old, brown carpeting in the office. It was the spontaneous cry of a small, 14-year-old girl going through a crisis. She was a runaway...