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Seven candidates ran unopposed, five for chairs of the IOP's six committees, and two for positions on the director's task force. The task force will contain two first-years, two sophomores and two juniors in addition to members of the IOP staff and several SAC chairs who have graduated in the past...
Late in the power play, sophomore defenseman Aaron Kim failed to contain the puck in the Catamount zone. Kim then did not scramble back fast enough on defense, allowing UVM center John Longo to race up-ice unimpeded...
...UNDERVOTES What are they? Undervotes are ballots that contain votes in some races but not all. Sometimes undervotes are intentional: The voter simply couldn't decide on a candidate, so that part of the ballot was left blank. But sometimes the machine reading a ballot misses a vote that was cast. That can happen when, for example, a chad isn't fully dislodged from a punch card. Florida has more than 61,000 undervoted ballots from this year's presidential race, a large but not shocking number for a state that uses old Votomatics...
...which went 53 percent to 45 percent for Bush, uses optical scanners. "There are no dimples, crimples, pimples or anything else to interpret," says election supervisor Fred Galey. That's good for him but - if the hand count resumes - bad for Bush, since Brevard's 277 undervoted ballots probably contain few votes. By contrast, Pinellas County's 4,226 undervoted punch-card ballots could contain hundreds of votes, and Gore won Pinellas. Across the state, undervoted ballots tend to be concentrated in Democratic areas. One explanation: Elderly and new voters make more mistakes on ballots; many of Gore's black...
...exhibit works hard to capture Day's eccentricities. Several large glass cases contain an exquisite series of fine books produced by the firm Copeland and Day, a publishing venture specializing in decadent fin-de-sicle literature that preceded Day's career in photography. Each photograph is matted in the Arts and Crafts style that Day preferred, often using blues and browns as well as off-white. Some mats even include a thin orange square to contrast with the colorless images...