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Also on tap is the first-year formal, just twoweeks away. The event, also organized by thecouncil, will be held at the Swiss Hotel in Bostonon Saturday, Feb. 20. The black tie affair hastraditionally seen a good turnout...
...last Ivy Council conference (held for delegates from all Ivy League undergraduate student governments), the relationship between student governments and undergraduates was discussed. The common problems were that the student governments lacked respect from students, voter turnout was low (although Harvard has the highest turnout in presidential elections in the Ivy League), and few people believed that their governments had any effectiveness in determining university policies...
Paul O. Roberts of Marblehead said he was really surprised by the turnout and excited about gleaning new recipes...
...Duehay attributes the drop in voter turnout to the declining number of candidates rather than political apathy...
Duehay also says local activism and voter turnout is influenced by national trends. "I think you're talking about American politics, not just [the situation] in Cambridge," he says...