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...Veep, but frankly, so would saying no. So on July 15, Daley will give up his elegant office across from the White House with its Teddy Roosevelt portrait, massive fireplace in use much of the year and staff of 30,000 watching everything from the weather to the census, all for a cubicle in Nashville to shore up a shaky campaign...
...group of conservatives tried to slash funding for the project, known as Census 2000. When this failed, they haggled with Driskell over individual census questions...
...result for both Spirit Week and Census 2000 was low student participation. To date, Driskell has only collected about 70 of 500 census forms...
...most recent victim of internal division has been the council's "Harvard Census 2000." The mainstay of Driskell's platform, the census would have been a way for the council both to gather student input and to convey legitimately that input to administrators. But this admirable project, which would have done much to restore much of the council's credibility, was met with stubborn resistance by council conservatives. Although the project withstood a funding challenge, these council members--led by those who voted earlier to remove Burton--managed to seriously curtail the project's visibility. Now, the council expected...
First and foremost, council members on all sides need to adopt a greater willingness to compromise in embracing a shared goal. It is reasonable to expect that some council members will disagree with projects like the "Harvard Census 2000." But it is also reasonable to expect that these same members will temper their opposition in deference to student body support of a popularly elected officer's platform. It is a subtle, but important, difference. In the case of the census project, opponents would have done better to attempt to change the direction of the project--for example, by proposing changes...