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...trucking out to The Game.10:30 a.m.—I’m in Allston and confused. There is no rocking. There is no rolling. There are no drunken teenagers and there is nary a “Fuck Yale” sign to be found. Turns out, this is not the result of the lame-ass tailgate restrictions but an evil plot concocted by the cruel, misleading bastards at Google Maps.11:00 a.m.—I retrace my steps, finally busting into tailgate city. A small performance area is set up near the entrance...
Given the $400 campaign budget and the ruckus that engulfs the campus every December, one might expect that becoming a candidate for the Undergraduate Council (UC) presidency is a difficult and painstaking process. But all it takes to get on the ballot is to find 150 people to sign their names and write down their e-mail addresses—it doesn’t even matter if the students have signed another candidate’s petition. Finding signatories is something most candidates do in an hour...
...this in a number of simple ways. First, the EC should dramatically increase the number of signatures required to get on the ballot. Second, the EC should allow students only to sign for one ticket; currently the names and signatures are only vetted to make sure the signatories are in fact current undergraduates. Candidates who are fully invested in running should still have no trouble getting on the ballot...
Third, the EC might consider making it more difficult to sign for a candidate; the current sheet is often filled out with a mindless flick of the pen, and some students don’t even know what they are signing for. Requiring that students fill in more information might make them think twice before signing...
...Though the term conjures up thoughts of enormous numbers of civilian dead, the quantity of victims is not the warning sign experts look for when considering the danger of genocide. Samantha Power, a professor at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, says with Shi'ite and Sunni sub-groups already identifying and killing victims solely on the basis of their religious identity, "genocidal intent" is already present in Iraq. "When you drive up to a checkpoint and you're stopped and somebody pulls out your ID and determines whether you're a Sunni or a Shiite...