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Springfest is the council's annual and largest attempt to "build community" at Harvard. Despite our efforts to recruit an audience for Springfest, each year, the turnout is lower than expected. As one council member pointed out, even when the dining halls were closed for lunch, the council still could not "starve" students into taking part in the MAC Quad festivities. Other council attempts at fostering community have proven to be exercises in futility...
...first meeting of this year, only five people showed up; at its second, attendees numbered nine. Co-Chairs Sujit M. Raman '00 and Ethel B. Branch '01 say they are concerned about the low turnout but remain optimistic...
...turnout or not, MSA is busily planning its first event of the year, a follow-up to last year's hugely successful affirmative action debate, which drew 1,500 students. So far, Professor Nathan Glazer has been confirmed for the event, scheduled for this Thursday...
Gingrich & Co. don't want to choose which path to take until the election results are in. And so both parties wait for the returns, aware that the Holy Grail of higher turnout brings with it no guarantees of deliverance from this mess. Most of Gingrich's advisers say he would prefer to avoid the unpleasant spectacle of impeachment proceedings. He knows Clinton will survive, and he prefers that to President Gore anyway. But he has no easy way out. It is not at all clear that 20 extra seats after November would make resolution of the mess any easier...
Relevance check, please? The phrase, "As in previous years, this year's council is overwhelmingly white and male" is all you have to say on diversity ("Council Races Suffer From Low Voter Turnout...