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First, there is the troubling issue of burnout. Students have already proven, in many instances, apathetic about the UC. Despite massive campaigning outside the Science Center, only about 60 percent of the student body voted in December??s presidential election, and 40 percent voted in September’s general election. To think that there would be significant turnout for frequent polls would be unrealistic, and the UC should be careful not to inundate students with solicitations...
...Grimeland’s running mate, was never on the council, although he is currently running to fill a vacant seat in Eliot House. Although they were considered to be the “insider” ticket, Voith and Gadgil came in a disappointing third in December??s election after a campaign that was marked by several flashes of controversy. In the second week of the election, The Crimson obtained an e-mail from a Voith-Gadgil staffer to a member of the Grimeland-Hadfield campaign, asking Grimeland and Hadfield to drop out of the race...
...Pelle roofed a Ryan Maki rebound to give the Crimson a 5-0 lead in the third period, and Harvard goaltender Justin Tobe made the shutout stand up with 24 total saves. It was Tobe’s fifth start of the season—and first since early December??as the junior has served as John Daigneau’s backup this season. But Daigneau was “a little banged up,” according to Donato, and Tobe had looked sharp in practice. He kept Harvard in it through that first period, when only...
While parts of the website were finally updated in late December??the agendas and minutes of fall meetings are now posted online—it still contains last year’s list of executive board members. Several prominent pages still list Nichols as vice-president and Munaim as treasurer. The most recent entry in the “UC News” section—entitled “Referendum Increases UC Fee to $75”—is May 5, 2004, and a link to the “UC Committees” page...
...course, blogs aren’t a particularly new trend. The 2004 presidential election saw them widely recognized as an important force by the media, particularly in the ultimately failed Howard Dean campaign. And even at Harvard there were a few campus political blogs already in place before December??former Crimson columnist Andrew Golis and a few of his friends have maintained the excellent “Cambridge Common” (cambridgecommon.blogspot.com) since last April.But the close-to-home election demonstrated quite nicely the various mechanisms by which blogs influence public opinion. One of those to be sure...