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This year's council--like the others before it--consists of eager first-years, weary upperclass students and confused leadership. It is a council plagued with an abysmally low voter turnout and thus diminished legitimacy among students and administration. It is a council pestered by biased campus media and outspoken critics overly anxious to pounce on the slightest mishap and play down even the most notable achievements. And most troubling, it is a council that exists within a constituency of students who seemingly just don't give a damn...
...smart enough to make their own fashion decisions. Just like now: they say anyone whom you trust to lead America into the next century should be trusted to lead themselves through Currier House without committing a spontaneous felony. I say to these people, tell that to the 25 upperclass students mugged in their own rooms every year by cash-strapped a cappella groups that have turned to banditry. Think what would happen if we gave these criminals a key to every campus dorm: that's not freedom, it's anarchy. The same kind of explosion is brewing...
...first-year elections, which are morecontested than the upperclass races, the delayprovides candidates extra time to speak with moreconstituents...
...Students wanted more flexibility," Mayer said, noting that upperclass students who had a number of classes during the lunch hour had difficulty finding time to rush back to their houses. "It was a valid complaint and something we felt we could accommodate," he said...
Like most upperclass students, Jonathan M. Harlow '99 did not recieve letters or e-mail from Harvard University over summer vacation. However, he took the official silence as a sign that, after the bureaucratic problems associated with the 'Returning Student' form he turned in late, he had secured a room in Eliot House after...