There is no question about it: Barry Bonds is going to break Hank Aaron’s home run record (755) this year. He may even break it before graduation, if he’s pitched to more than once a game. For non-baseball fans, Bonds’ approach to this milestone is met with frustration by many sports fans over his “alleged” — he used them — use of steroids. Rather than cheers, Bonds’ home runs at opposing ballparks are met with signs reading only *: a call for the asterisk that many want put next to his name in the record books.
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Dear Travis Green ‘08, Student Assembly President-elect:
Allow me to congratulate you on winning the race. By the end of the runoff election, you garnered 41.3 percent of the vote. This plurality, along with your strategic choice of “running mate” Ian Tapu ‘08, has put you in office until next spring. But with great power comes great responsibility, and you have the chance to make a major difference. You inherit a nearly defunct organization that lacks the respect of the entire campus. As I sat in my cubicle each morning this past winter, I read countless articles focusing on the petty infighting within the Assembly and its resulting inability to act in the best interest of the student body. Your administration will be judged solely on its level of success in returning the Student Assembly to respectability as well as in rebuilding even the smallest modicum of trust between the student government and its constituents. Here is my unsolicited advice on how to do just that.
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