Commentary on the Yale College Council Elections

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Bank of America Presents Spring Fling: A modest proposal from YSAC candidates…and a modest proposal of my own

April 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments

By Zach Marks
Updated at 2:48 a.m.
In a year of such hotly contested YCC elections, namely a fierce presidential race between three candidates with an exceptional number of Facebook friends, I’ve been a bit surprised to find my inbox being filled with more plugs for YSAC candidates than for any other position. Feels like every other […]

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That’s a No-No, Abby: Our first violation of the season

April 14th, 2008 · 3 Comments

By Zach Marks
Corrected at 2:42 a.m. An earlier version of this blog post said Kristian Henderson won the YDN’s endorsement for YSAC Chair. Colin Leatherbury in fact won the endorsement. 
No more than a few hours of voting had passed before reports of the election’s first violation started trickling in. Yalies in (at least) the Davenport […]

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Where there’s a Will, there’s a sick dude. Siiiiiiick.

April 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment

By Zach Marks
I’ve been showing YCC Treasurer candidate Jon Wu love on the blog the past few days, but his opponent, Will Alexander, deserves it too. His campaign theme – “Where there’s a Will, there’s a sick dude” – isn’t quite as sick as “Yes Wu Can,” but it still registers a significant reading on […]

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Election 2.0: YCC Campaigns Go Digital

April 13th, 2008 · 11 Comments

By Zach Marks
As of 8 p.m. Sunday night, Harrison Marks’ campaign website had 566 hits. If the number of visitors to a candidate’s site has any correlation to the number of supporters he has, Harrison will need to draw a bit more traffic to be competitive in this race. Then again, Marks’ site is the […]

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2008 Endorsement Meeting – (YSAC)Idealism runs rampant

April 13th, 2008 · No Comments

By Ryan Russell
I was going to do a running live-blog, but there was just too much information to process; luckily, I took decent notes so I’ll share my impressions of the meeting…
President:
Katrina Landeta:
- Initial Impressions: Dressed professionally and spoke confidently despite being the first up.
- […]

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