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...freshmen] have worked for everything they’ve gotten this year,” captain Charles Altchek said. “Now the older guys have to help the young guys stay focused, so we can do great things...
...continues until Thursday, with an average of 3.79 candidates per seat. This year is just a fraction more competitive than the previous record in 2003, when an average of 3.78 candidates ran per seat. Every House election will be competitive, with at least three candidates per seat, and 77 freshmen will be vying for a total of eight UC seats. This election is more than twice as competitive as last year’s, when 86 students competed for 49 seats. Last spring, the UC voted to cut the number of House representatives to two from three...
...that Yom Kippur and Ramadan would fall during the same period for the next couple of years, according to Farber. A joint breaking of the fast was organized last year as well, resulting in the creation of “Jews and Muslims,” a group of freshmen who met every week for meals in Annenberg Hall, Farber said...
...evidence of true civic illiteracy, and not of unreasonably difficult or obscure questions. Although Harvard’s score of almost 70 percent was the highest of all schools surveyed, seniors’ scores reflected less than a 2 percent improvement over the performance of freshmen, and the ISI noticed relatively poorer senior scores, with respect to freshmen, at 16 of the schools it surveyed. This relative stagnation or decline, however, may simply reflect that, yes, college students forget some of the facts and dates they memorize in high school. Even if America is truly facing a crisis of civics...
...name loudly while banging on a drum in front of the Science Center. Second, there are the venerable campus leaders themselves. Third, there are the reporters who for some reason cover them (comp The Crimson and this could be you!). And finally, there are the naïve freshmen who think the UC is important. As a somewhat jaded member of category three, I take pity on those poor souls in category four. This is my second annual attempt to help them make sense of the mad dash that is the UC elections. The UC has two primary functions: divvying...