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More students voted in last week's Great Grape Referendum than in last year's Undergraduate Council presidential and vice-presidential elections, 50 percent to 43 percent. Whether to take this as an indication of greater student ardor over grapes or greater apathy toward the council is up for debate...
...more interesting question is why, although 3,000 students voted, did 3,000 not? Given the three-week barrage of posters, table tents, e-mail messages and articles about grapes that preceded the referendum, how could so many abstain? Admittedly, Harvard students are a busy bunch. Even with all the publicity, even with voting as easy as a card swipe, it is not easy to shake us out of the academic and social shells we inhabit...
Another anti-grape voter, Tiziana Vargas '01, says she did not believe the referendum was over-publicized...
...this week's election, the candidates are relatively unknown and the political landscape is murky. We encourage you to see the annual election as a referendum on what should be the council's guide. We endorse Benjamin W. Hulse'99 for president of the Undergraduate Council. Hulse combines a dedication to making the student voice heard on the big issues in an articulate, intellectual manner with a realistic understanding of what the president--and the council--can and cannot...
Some students said they did not vote on the referendum. Some said they are not interested in the debate, and others said they do not particularly care what type of food is served in the dinning halls...