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Although the Faculty invited student groups to plead their case for voting rights, they rejected the proposal by a large margin. Nevertheless, the Fainsod Report offered an explanation for not granting students suffrage. "The case for vesting faculties with the final responsibility for appointments, curricular and degree requirements rests on their professional qualifications and on the fact that they must live with their decisions over many studnt generations." It seemed paradoxical to many students that the group charged with finding ways to include undergraduates in University decision-making denied them a formal vote on the matter...
Opponents have accused Kucinich of using racist appeals in his campaigns. In the nonpartisan mayoral primary, Kucinich polled only 15.3 per cent of the black vote compared to 25.3 per cent for Republican Lieutenant Governor George V. Voinovich. Still, Kucinich delivers speeches in the black ghetto to tumultuous applause and former mayor Carl Stokes has strongly endorsed him, telling the Cleveland Plain Dealer: "I understand that in a diverse city in which racial politics has been the order of the day, that, if a man is going to survive, he has to do what everyone who has survived has done...
...mayor's re-election is unlikely. He beat back a recall try in August of last year by only 236 votes; in February he convinced two-thirds of Cleveland voters to raise their own income taxes and defeat a referendum to sell Muny Light; he finally won the approval of a hostile city council of his own plan to repay the banks. But in the primary October 2, Kucinich ran 11,228 votes behind Voinovich. Kucinich has heavy union support, but Voinovich is outspending him more than two to one. The deciding factor in the run-off may turn...
Despite the 9-0 CUE vote--with one abstention--in favor of the ERG plan, Davis said he will still propose and support his plan before the Faculty Council next week, because he believes students should take four A.P. exams to replace the four full-year Harvard courses they will miss by accepting sophomore standing...
Because of the decisive vote, Bowersock suggested Davis consider backing the CUE-approved plan instead...