Word: turnouts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson said she was not disappointed by theundergraduate turnout...
...steps of the Capitol in Washington, in a candlelight vigil that struggled to make another argument and extract another message from his death. Ellen DeGeneres, Ted Kennedy and Barney Frank, the openly gay Massachusetts Congressman--all the expected speakers took the microphone. What was less expected was the sheer turnout of lawmakers at a moment when Congress was embroiled in the crazy closing hours of the budget deal. So many members showed up to voice their grief and anger that House minority leader Dick Gephardt had time only to read their names. "It speaks volumes about how much progress...
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...
Many of our constituents have taken these past failures as evidence of the uselessness and worthlessness of the council--an argument validated by elections canceled by God and the subsequent low voter turnout. While I am certainly not eager to assume that the council deserves to suffer under divine wrath, we must at least admit that we have not done well in listening to our constituents' concerns on important issues. Because we don't listen to students, they don't vote in our elections...
...council has long been plagued by claims of its illegitimacy. With only 15 percent of our constituents voting, the time has come to honestly ask ourselves at what point will we no longer consider ourselves to be a credible student government. With a 10 percent turnout? Five percent...