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...us” refers to is another question. Menand correctly called the 168-14-11 vote for Gen Ed a “landslide”—but the 193 who participated in that vote constitute little more than a fourth of the full Faculty...
...good lawyer you’re a good guy. If you help someone across the road when you’re in politics often the cynicism of our age makes people say, ‘Oh well he’s just trying to get their vote...
...several months on the Faculty Council, which decides determines both meeting dates and agendas. However, these decisions ultimately reflect the entire Faculty’s apathy, whose abysmally low attendance characterized the few meetings that were held. The Faculty are entrusted with a tremendous responsibility with the power to vote on all of these issues. If they were willing to commit a few hours every month to issues of such import, there would be no need for quorum to be even as low as one-sixth, let alone one-eighth. The institutional inertia affects not only the issues that were...
...been free of scrutiny. Rather, the most recent cycle of caucuses and primaries has only underscored the problems with our election system. The staggered calendar has given undue influence to a handful of states with early primaries and caucuses—rendering the contests of states that vote late in the schedule almost meaningless. Most undemocratic has been the superdelegate system, which may, for the first time in recent electoral history, determine the candidate for the Democratic Party. One mere vote from a superdelegate at the Democratic convention may just as valuable as the thousands of votes cast by individual...
2/20/06: Facing another potential vote of no confidence and rising discontent among professors, Summers resigns. He is replaced by former Harvard president Derek...