Word: reporters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time did our expenses exceed the campaign limit of $100 per candidate. When other opponents raised questions about our campaign practices, the election commission decided to audit our expense report. The audit was something that I had never seen done in an election before and was a proactive and thorough way for the election commission to address the concerns of other candidates. In a meeting that lasted more than an hour and a half, the election commission went through a laundry list of allegations and picked our expense report apart, point by point...
When John and I walked into the meeting, our expenses totaled $95.95. This amount included an earlier violation assessed by the election commission after they ruled that buttons used in our campaign should have been accounted for in our expense report. The buttons were acquired from the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters' Alliance (BGLTSA) Resource Center. John understood that the buttons were a "freely available resource," a free resource available to any student who requested them. Michael A. Hill '02, a BGLTSA co-chair, knew that we had some buttons, but was unaware of how many. Hill...
...lemonade that we passed out while campaigning earlier that day. We explained that lemonade mix was acquired from Quincy House (not Mather) dining hall and that any candidate could get mix and water for free. However, the cost of the lemonade mix was added before submitting our final expense report. The commission then decided that everything was accounted for and that we had not overspent, as our total expenses amounted...
...from the 1930s is a charming, if mechanically obsolete, relic. On the other hand, a technology developed 70 years ago to establish levels of tar and nicotine in cigarettes is still in use in federal laboratories - and determines the ingredient labels on today's cigarettes. And as a report in this week's issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute contends, that creaky cigarette "smoking machine" may be responsible for the dissemination of serious consumer misinformation. Why do smokers still believe they are "healthier" when they smoke Marlboro Lights as opposed to Reds? Because the Federal Trade Commission...
...process comes out, we suspect it will show current methods are not helpful at all," says Judith Wilkenfeld, Chair of the Committee for Tobacco Product Change in Washington, D.C. "We're long overdue for an overhaul of the way we measure cigarettes' content and the way we report the results to the public." And in the meantime, smokers can practice inhaling a little less forcefully...