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...Today was a great game, definitely the type of game that we play for,” Brown said. “Our coach challenged us to win the game when we were trailing, and we took advantage of Providence’s mistakes. We were confident we could win and we pulled it out in the end. It was a great team...
...order to better understand the sentiments of our peers, all responses from the survey students took on their January experience should be made available. This will not only be informative, but it will also help students leading next year’s programming better understand their constituencies...
...modern era, the 2000 election was the most notable example of a case in which voters’ preferences were not properly represented. Through our plurality voting system, a right-of-center candidate took office despite the fact that a clear majority of the public voted for liberal policies in the form of former Vice President Al Gore ’69 and consumer rights activist Ralph Nader. By 2004, Republicans were funding Nader’s campaign for office, and the gaming of the system reached new levels in congressional elections, with major candidates strategically funding fringe opponents...
...Poirier ’11, comp director and former general manager, one of the elements of WHRB that initially drew him to the station was the extensive vinyl record collection. “I took the door through the libraries, and I saw all the music in the station, and I said ‘I have to do this.’ I have to be able to be around this music all the time,” Poirier says. Tova R. Holmes ‘11, president of WHRB, loves its collection of first- and limited-edition records...
Even then, her renomination became a referendum on the past. At one point, Senator Orrin Hatch took the last minutes of his testimony against Johnsen to praise the authors of the Bush-era memos, John Yoo and Jay Bybee, calling them "two brilliant guys" and "very excellent people." Conversely, Democrats split their time between urging support for Johnsen and condemning the Bush lawyers who came before her. The vote to again send her nomination for a floor vote was on strict party lines. (See four myths about Supreme Court nominees...