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...spacious Emerson auditorium filled for a lecture on female orgasms. The event, organized by a collaboration of different student groups, boasted a high turnout and was deemed very successful. Its eye-catching posters had aroused attention and raised many eyebrows, and the lecture received coverage the next day on the first page of The Crimson. What few remarked, however, is that its commercial nature compromised the purported aim of the event, which ended up being yet another example—if we needed one—of the commercial establishment’s co-optation of the ideology of personal...
...percent of respondents said that they felt elected officials acted on selfish motivations. But students embraced political avenues of change, with 91 percent saying that “running for office is an honorable thing to do.” Perhaps most surprisingly, the survey found that turnout among people aged 18 to 24 was higher for the 2004 elections than for any presidential election since 1972, the first year in which 18-year-olds could vote. This finding contradicted early reports after the election that turnout among this age group was much lower than expected. Caitlin W. Monahan...
...attended the sleepover briefly to watch “Sex and the City,” said the party was well-intentioned but needed “a stripper, or catered food, or even sushi served on naked models” to increase turnout. Jones said feedback from the participants had been positive, and that next year’s goal would be to increase attendance. “With midterms and everything, you just want to hang out, and you don’t have to go to a big crazy party,” said Oulu Wang...
...Rice heard the Sunnis out and, according to a State Department official, made no commitments. She did attempt to give the Sunnis a Politics 101 lesson. As the State Department official tells it, she urged them to work on turnout for the December elections, explaining that in politics, the last 10 or 15 percent is the hardest to get. The Sunnis had many more eligible voters than that, she said, so if they turned them out in force, they could wield considerable clout as the new government is being formed...
Traditional favorite Anthony D. Galluccio placed first again this year, but lower voter turnout and stronger showings from challengers diluted his influence. This would prove fatal for incumbent Maher, who has in past years benefitted from Galluccio’s transfer votes...