Word: student
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four-figure monthly rent and you careen towards a career in I-banking. You're hit by 90-hour weeks, you fizzle out, lose steam, and drop into law school. There you bump into a nice guy, slide into marriage and emerge from law school with an infant child, student loans, the need to buy a house--so you become an analyst...
Four years and seven months ago, the founders of the modern Undergraduate Council persuaded their fellow representatives to allow a campus-wide, popular election to determine who among future generations would lead the student government. At the time, this great experiment in representative democracy was drastic, but necessary. "Popular elections will galvanize students, make them informed and interested," predicted former council president David M. Hanselman '94-'95. More importantly, insisted then-president Joshua D. Liston '95, the new system would give the council what it currently lacked--credibility among students and administrators...
...have learned over the years, the credibility that can be afforded by popular elections is far from guaranteed. The low voter turnout that has plagued previous council elections is indicative of the disconnect between the candidates and the student body. It signifies a lack of confidence in council leadership and a dangerous apathy toward the role student government occupies within the College community. At best, popular elections have only brought the council one step closer to a goal that still remains beneath the horizon...
...When students log onto the council's electronic voting program this week, they will cast an important vote on the issues of council downsizing and hiking the termbill. On both these issues we urge students to vote "yes." A smaller council--one as small as 50 members--will create contested races and give the body slightly more legitimacy. Furthermore, more funds will better equip the organization to perform its most central duty of doling out grants for student organizations...
...regardless of which name students support on their president and vice-presidential ballot, the chances of true council progress are dim. This year's candidates have failed miserably at galvanizing, informing or interesting the student body. None of the candidates has offered a cohesive vision of council reform. Nor can any of the candidates truthfully claim support from a broad cross-section of the campus. And most troubling, none of the candidates has been able to evoke the confidence necessary to become a campus leader...