The Michigan Board of Regents has accumulated a list of 250 to 300 possible candidates for the position. Shapiro aide Robin Jacoby told The Daily last Friday that "it was unlikely the search would move quickly enough for someone to be selected and ready to assume office January first." Corruption Rocks Radio Station
YALE
Members of the Columbia College Student Council Election Commission stuffed ballot boxes and miscounted votes last spring in order to help their friends win their election bids, last year's commission chairman charged.
Former Election Commision Co-Chairman Dan Schacter, who graduated last year, said last week that his successor and a former member of the commission both rigged the spring elections to help candidates Kaivan Shakib, the current council vice chairman, and Monica Byrne-Jimenez, a senior who lost her bid.
Incumbent Shakib, a junior, received few votes at the beginning of the election process, and most council members thought he would not be re-elected, according to the Columbia Spectator. Schacter said Shakib quite suddenly received an overwhelming number of votes on the last day of voting, while the current election commission co-chair was manning the polls.
In addition, Schacter has charged another member of the commission with miscounting the ballots to award Byrne-Jimenez a seat on the council. A recount revealed that Byrne-Jiminez placed eighth rather than third, as originally claimed. Two weeks after the elections, the commission member resigned.
Schacter also said that if all the ballots recorded during last spring's elections were valid, 10 percent more people voted than in 1986. The rise indicates that ballot boxes were probably stuffed, he said.
The current council chair, Jared Goldstein, has been asked to look into the charges. Graduates Suffer From Stereotype
MIT
The general manager and the program director of the Yale radio station WYBC resigned last spring after the station treasurer claimed they had used organization credit cards to cover about $3500 in personal expenses, The Yale Daily News reported last week.
Senior Anthony Duff, the station's general manager and corporation chair, and junior Rohan Jones, WYBC's program director, used station credit charge for such expenses as a $274 suit at J. Press and $1763 in car rentals, according to treasurer Susan Takemoto, a senior.
In addition, WYBC files revealed claims from station clients that they had paid Duff and Jones more than $9500 in cash--money which the student-run organization never received, according to The Daily.
The station is considering legal action against Duff and Jones. MIT
Graduates Suffer From Stereotype
MIT graduates still trail in top schools nationwide in attaining managerial or executive positions, largely because society stereotypes engineers as "nerds," according to The Tech.
Little basis exists for this negative stereotype, said Robert K. Weatherall, director of career services and preprofessional advising. He said a report by the the National Academy of Sciences stated, "Professors and employers alike refer to the dramtically higher communication and social skills of engineering students. They seem to have a richer education and cultural background and are more confident and assertive than engineers of the past," The Tech reported.