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...were always delivered the same way. Head flick to the right, head flick to the left. A nervous glance backward. No one listening, not even the waiter shuffling up to slosh hot water into our glasses? Good. What did I, as an American who had the good fortune to vote in one of the most exciting presidential races in recent memory, think of Burma's upcoming national elections...
...answer, of course, was less important than what Burmese living under one of the world's most Orwellian regimes thought. And what they said surprised me. Yes, some deemed the elections "useless." Others conceded that the obstacles to electoral freedom are formidable. Before a single vote is cast, Burma's elections will be rigged. The newly minted constitution ensures that top leadership posts are reserved for the military. Many members of the political opposition--including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who still languishes under house arrest--have been barred from running by regulations both arcane and outlandish...
Distressed rabbits complained of HoCo’s disorganization and tyrannical-like disregard for majority vote. One resident griped, “I just don’t get what the point of a vote was if we were not going to make a decision based on the results of that vote.” Another called the survey “deceptive and disappointing,” and accused HoCo of “holding a sham survey to try and get a mandate for a predecided course of action (holding the formal in Lev) and reneging when...
HoCo sent out TWO formal questionnaires (the first was deemed “inconclusive” by resident polling experts.) On the second pass, Top of the Hub won by a hair's breadth, with 52 percent of the vote (150 people). In-house had 48 percent of the vote (136 people). But HoCo opted to ignore the majority ruling, deciding to conduct an in-house formal anyway, because it was more “economically feasible." Ahh, how the noble instrument of democracy is scorned...
Kenen added that the curriculum will undergo a review in 2012, five years after the Gen Ed vote in May 2007—the committee that conducts the review may recommend to the Faculty that the number of categories be reduced, depending on the results in the next few years...