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This year the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate is sponsoring five candidates on a platform of voluntary integration and commitment to affirmative action. The two new candidates, Attles and Blackman, have made minority problems their special concern, citing the high percentage of minority dropouts and the tracking of minority students away from career training...
...Two challengers also deserve support. Their election would increase the liberal edge and make progress towards social goals in the city easier. David Sullivan has defended the rights of students for eight years in Cambridge and was a key figure in achieving the current limits on condominium conversion in the city. Alvin Thompson has pledged to support continued rent controls and would add representation from the city's black population...
When you were a fourth-grader gym was a time and a place for Philadelphia kickball and the President's Physical Fitness Tests. But for the mid-Cambridge children who attend the Longfellow Elementary School, every two years their gym becomes a lesson in civics. But that isn't Cambridge's only peculiarity...
...last (and first) bastion of strict proportional representation (residents affectionately call it PR) in the country. To understand the system, let's follow a hypothetical voter through the electoral process--from the voting booth to the floor of the gymnasium, where a corps of veteran pollsters gather every two years to count the ballots...
...each of the names on the ballot is a blank box, in which voters must pencil a ranking. ("Do Not Use X Marks," the ballot warns.) Instead, pick your favorite candidate and mark him down as number one. The second-best person for the job should get your number two, and so on, all the way up until 23. Many people give up after eight or nine names because votes are unlikely to be meaningful after that point. "People do all kinds of crazy things--they mark X's, they cross out names, they write slogans on the ballot...