Word: grimmelmann
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grimmelmann, a member of the Election Commission which is overseeing the campaign, said this is not an issue the commission plans to investigate...
...first application of the Undergraduate Council's bullet-in-the-foot Nelson-Grimmelmann Act suggests the former. The Act submits selected council resolutions to the Dean of the College for endorsement. Its supporters claim that resolutions which pass both the council's ratification process and the Dean's review will give the U.C. more credibility...
...contrary, Messrs. Nelson and Grimmelmann! What your Act does is to fundamentally erode the legitimacy of the council as a representative student body, guarantee the council a long series of humiliating and disenfranchising slaps in the face, and narrow its interaction with the administration...
What happened with the silly "first-year" proposal is only the beginning. The council recently proposed a small change to replace all official uses of the term "freshman" with "first-year." Per the Nelson-Grimmelmann Act (hence-forth "The Shackle"), the proposal was submitted to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 for review. The Dean rightly rejected the proposal...
...proposals for Lewis' veto is totally humiliating, since it only underscores (and exacerbates) the council's place as a non-force on this campus. The system also destroys the arm's-length relationship that any legitimate college student government should have with the administration. The council should repeal the Grimmelmann-Nelson Act and end these farcical games...