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Unfortunately, some students used this occasion to exaggerate the disadvantages inherent in the structure of SAC, the body that for over three decades has led student involvement at the IOP. These students made several inaccurate claims about the power and privileges of its members and the process by which it selected them. I hope to clarify these misperceptions about SAC to inform the discussions about future student involvement...
...Finally, SAC was unfairly criticized for the process by which it selected its new members. Like many Harvard student organizations, SAC admitted new members through an application process rather than elections. All applicants wrote essays and were interviewed by a selection committee that evaluated them with an objective point-based system which considered both their personal merit and larger concerns of diversity and fair representation of gender, race, ideology and interest as well. Like any selection process, especially at Harvard, many qualified applicants were not accepted. These students were understandably disappointed with the outcome of the process, and some advocated...
...helped the whole process go smoothly," he said...
...According to briefs filed Wednesday at the Supreme Court, the Bush team views their looming appearance before the Justices as nothing less than a test of the complete post-vote process. Their argument holds that if SCOTUS finds the Florida Supreme Court acted outside its jurisdiction in extending the recount tally deadline - that it does not, in their view, have the power to override preexisting election laws - the Court has simultaneously nullified Gore's contest of the Florida election results...
...name their own Bush-friendly slate of electors? According to Robert Bennett, constitutional law professor at Northwestern University, the answer to that question depends on one's interpretation of a specific statute, which holds that the legislature can become involved only if there is a "failure of the choice process." If one defines Election Day as the "choice process," the legislature is free to jump in any time. If, however, one extends broader parameters to the "choice process" to accommodate the extended deadline, one could argue that whoever wins the recount is the winner of said process, and there...