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...concluded its first open elections for student leadership. Six students were elected chairs of program committees and six more were elected representatives to a "Director's Task Force" that is to decide the permanent structure of student involvement at the institute. Since the dissolution of its Student Advisory Committee (SAC) on Dec. 1, the role of students at the IOP has been in flux; we congratulate the IOP on its elections and hope that they represent a continuation of student influence at the institute...
...very different from the [previous] SAC selection process because everyone involved in the IOP had a chance to vote," said E. Clarke Tucker '03, a newly elected member of the director's task force. "The results are different because the people elected have more of a electoral mandate than they have ever had before...
Most students involved expressed the hope that democratic elections would increase student involvement for those who were not elected. Some students said previous leadership positions, selected by SAC members, turned students away from...
Pryor said he had not yet announced the staff members or graduated SAC chairs who will also serve on the task force...
From this vantage point, there is something to be said for the election process that sacrifices its more democratic qualities for a safeguard that thwarts such dishonesty and manipulation. The former Student Advisory Council (SAC) at the Institute of Politics (IOP), for example, used to renew its leadership with a private internal process. When the IOP conceived of the selection process some 30 years ago, the institute hoped that such a system would establish a spirit that would perpetually replenish the SAC's leadership with charismatic and visionary students. Who better to identify the undergraduates best fit to take...