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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Abolition of Student Governments
Message-ID: <1758@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 11:58:56 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  4 11:58:56 1985
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Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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On the subject of rediculous student government:

A few years ago the MIT undergraduate student body elected the
"Conservative Gumby" ticket to the positions of Undergraduate
Association President and Vice President.

They ran on a platform which included making Harvard a colony of MIT.

They ran against a number of serious candidates, but still won.

Once elected, they used the UA news to give "war stories" about the 
status of the Harvard invasion (this was at the same time that Argentina
invaded falklands).

Since that time, there haven't been many serious candiates for those
offices, and almost everyone ignores the student govt.


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