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Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Kia J. McLeod ’10 won the Undergraduate Council election last night by just 157 votes out of 3,425 cast in a race that featured increased turnout, rule violations, and comedy...
...over a full second with a time of 1:05.18. The win earned him an IC4A-qualification. Sophomore John Fahnenstiel and freshman Chuma Ogunwole met the preliminary qualifier mark in the men’s 60-meter dash, but failed to finish in the top 10 in the finals race, logging times of 7.24 and 7.33, respectively. The Crimson’s 4x400 meter relay teams continued to put up impressive performances. The women’s A team blew past the competition with a time of 4:00.00, and Hartford beat the B team by just 0.6 seconds, settling...
...which was perfected after a gubernatorial recount in 1962, has a plan in case of a dead tie: a coin flip. The state already did one this year for a school-board seat in Farmington. Ritchie has been looking around for a good coin for the Coleman-Franken race; he says the quarter with Minnesota on the back is the way to go. "I was watching Leatherheads, the football movie, and you realize there are angles on coin-tossing as well. Who flips it? Who calls it?" By next year, rest assured, Minnesota will have the best coin-flipping...
Undergraduate Council candidates’ Web sites prominently display the myriad ways that they hope to improve social life on campus. But the likelihood of their proposals actually being enacted is another issue altogether. Of the five tickets running, three feature candidates seem to be in the race for more than just laughs: Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 and Alneada D. Biggers ’10, Andrea R. Flores ’10 and Kia J. McLeod, and Charles T. James ’09-’10 and Max H. Y. Wong...
...most recent drug battle broke out during a horse race in the tiny village of Agua Zarca, less than an hour's drive from the busy Mexico-Guatemala border crossing at La Mesilla. Authorities found nearby what appeared to be an improvised hospital for the wounded, including an impromptu helicopter pad with evidence of use. Six people have been arrested in connection with the incident, four of them Mexican and at least one a Guatemalan, with an outstanding arrest warrant for drug-related crimes...