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...It’s a shame, isn’t it?" Professor John T. Hamilton, one of the members of the Norton committee, said of the turnout. "I anticipated it to be much more of an event...
Gomes thinks the turnout may have something to do with the Music Department’s inward focus on its own field of study...
Hamilton also suggested that the time of the year may have hampered turnout. "I think the fact that it was so early in the term accounts for the somewhat disappointing attendance," he says...
...contested precinct, putting forth a meager six. It’s not just the freshman candidates who are getting the electoral urge. First-years are also going to the polls—that is, the UC website—in greater numbers than their more grizzled elders. In 2005, turnout topped 50 percent in every freshman district. No upperclass House saw turnout exceed 43 percent—and at the lowest extreme, less than 28 percent of Dunsterites bothered to vote, according to statistics from the UC Election Commission. Jay Anderson ’09, a member...
...campaign designed to divert attention from Iraq and wake his party's disaffected base from its slumber - Foley has given a few key segments of the Republican coalition a jaw-dropping reason to stay home. It's hard to conceive a piece of news more likely to dampen the turnout of social conservatives than predatory sexual practices by a closeted gay Republican leader. I also doubt that the Republican coalition-minders were pleased when Foley blamed his problems on an adolescent encounter with a priest; the last thing the G.O.P. needs is for Catholics to stay home...