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Politically, the UC’s year has been a particularly tumultuous one. In December, hoping to establish a healthy creative tension between executives, we endorsed a split ticket for the UC’s Presidency and Vice Presidency, throwing our support behind presidential candidate Matthew J. Glazer ’06 and vice-presidential hopeful Ian W. Nichols ’06, who ran separately...
...disappointing result was not the outcome we had expected. Nichols never communicated effectively with his fellow executive board members and, faced with mounting calls for his impeachment, chose to resign on May 8. We expressed satisfaction with his decision, recognizing that the tension between President and Vice President, which we had hoped would be productive, was, in fact, quite the opposite...
...Every individual was different, but a lot of people in the Freshman Union would sit in the springtime with their own ethnic group,” Matthews recalls. “There was no tension on campus, nor was there any preventative collaboration between races. I’ve never heard of any racial problem or any physical violence based on that respect...
...crisp fall night of booze, strip joints, and revelry for the 1976 football team ended tragically in the stabbing death of a Harvard student, sending the campus of 1980 reeling in the midst of a public trial—and retrial—fraught with racial town-gown tension...
...think part of the reason that I’ve been offered the job is because I have roots in the faculty,” Huchra said. “I’m hoping to actually remove some of that tension so that we can get work done...