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...Davin probably won't win. And to a large extent, that's because he is the only CCA Common Slate candidate who openly admits that educational change does not end where structural innovation begins. In this way he is the only candidate who differs--at least in verbalizations and on paper--from his independent opponents...
Students in university communities have generally played a negligible role in local elections since the student-backed slate took office in Berkeley. And Harvard undergraduates have been no exception...
...student apathy certainly cannot be wholly explained in terms of hostility from the community. The Grass Roots Organization (GRO), which consists of people interested in basic structural change in Cambridge government, is sponsoring a slate of seven candidates who support programs for more blue-collar jobs, neighborhood control of police, and low-income housing projects. But this program, which is similar to that offered by the Berkeley radicals in 1971, has attracted little student interest. Saundra Graham, the only incumbent among the seven GRO candidates, says that student reaction to her campaign has been minimal. "The students are simply unaware...
...surprising, therefore, that Cheatham himself is the chief issue in this fall's campaign. Frisoli has many supporters among lower-middle class Cantabridgians, and many of them have gotten together to form an "Independent Slate" of school committee candidates...
...black councilman explained, opposing the funding of a women's health center. In a 1973 election for four new councilors--which the conservative Berkeley Gazette described as "the last effort of rational, reasonable people"--Mayor Widener endorsed not his ex-partners in the April Coalition but a slate of liberal Democratic types, the Berkeley Four. With student turnout down 20 per cent from 1971 and an impressive 75 per cent turnout in wealthy Berkeley Hills, only one Coalition candidate got herself elected, and the Coalition was left with its old minority...