Word: reapportionment
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"Obviously, the budget will be smaller," said Council Treasurer Christopher J. Borgen '91, who is serving as chair in the absence of Guhan Subramanian '91-'92. "I'm not sure how we'll reapportion.
Originally, Cookin' was revived in response to the need of the Cabot House Committee to reapportion some of its responsibilities, so as not to spread itself too thin. The management of an area as large as the Junior Common Room is a full-time job and will benefit from a...
...cause of all that passion-and of lesser outbursts in other state legislatures -is a subject guaranteed to put most ordinary citizens to sleep: reapportionment. In state capitols across the country, legislators are wrangling to draw new boundaries for U.S. congressional districts to conform with the 1980 census. (After that, they will reapportion their own state legislatures.) The decennial battle, always a partisan struggle, is especially heated this year: a total of 17 seats must be transferred from ten states in the Northeast and Midwest to eleven states in the West and the South. Those losing seats are New York...
As certainly as the sun rises, Americans are moving from the North and Midwest to the South and West. Preliminary 1980 census figures released last week indicated a U.S. population of 226 million, up 11% over 1970. Most states in the North and Midwest had increases below the national average...
The minority leaders' key demand is that the bureau pledge in advance to adjust its official tally if a planned postcensus sampling reveals an undercount. Barabba balks at making such a promise maintaining that "it is still an open question." One problem is that a detailed adjustment could not...