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While the King-Driskell ticket was defeated by Noah Z. Seton '00 and Kamil E. Redmond '00, the candidates made a strong showing. King placed an easy second with 945 cumulative votes--nearly twice the number of votes received by third-place finisher John A. Burton '01, who had been endorsed by a number of progressive student groups...
...forgive spectators from being a little confused today when U.S. v. Microsoft resumes after a two-week holiday break. We pick up almost exactly where we left off: A little fish (in this case, Intuit) describing how the big piranha from Redmond offered to swallow them up -- or grind them into fish sticks with the power of its Windows operating system. Because most of the testimony has already been leaked to the press (and Microsoft's PR machine has already responded), today may play like an old rerun...
Seton and Redmond, who is also a Crimson editor, now face the challenge of proving that their unlikely yet promising pairing can indeed produce results. We are most enthusiastic about the team's pledge to focus on important student services. Specifically, we believe three areas should top the agenda in 1999: academic and personal advising reform, a renewed push for greater diversity on the Faculty and the start of a serious dialogue among students and administrators about the construction of a viable new student center...
Seton and Redmond should also put Administrative Board reform back on the agenda, and follow through on their commitment to downsize a bloated and therefore uncompetitive council...
Perhaps the biggest challenge facing Seton and Redmond, however, is to rise above the particular issues and become recognizable and respected spokespersons for the student body. This year, as Stewart has acknowledged, the council's leaders largely retreated into the council itself and into behind-the-scenes negotiations with administrators. Such a return to the closed-door, inner-circle style of the council's past squanders the opportunity presented by popular elections: to speak to and for thousands of students, focusing our attention and energies on the major concerns...