Princeton students have voted to donate both the Fall 2009 Lawnparties main act and USG Senate Pilot Program funds to “Student-initiated service projects” over not donating the money at all or donating the funds to Annual Giving. At least, that’s according to a PDF released by the USG earlier today.
The catch, however, is that the document only shows first place votes – the actual vote will be tabulated by single transferable ballot (basically, everyone ranks their choices 1 through 3, and the people who voted the least popular item first have their second choice counted instead.) Pretty much, it doesn’t look like anything will change from these results, but if it does the USG will have once again found a way to bungle an election.
We go inside the numbers and break down how the vote happened after the jump.
Ever since we awkwardly (and unwittingly) sat down at the German table in the Rocky dining hall back in October (after a confusing ten minutes we excused ourself with our only German phrase, guten tag), we’ve had a somewhat strange relationship with the residential dining hall language tables. We understand–really nice for native speakers who miss their mother tongue, useful for aspiring linguists, another way for uber-competitive Princeton students to show off–but the little Lou Dobbs in us sometimes wants to shout out “English! We eat our food in English in America!”
Lewis Library — The cavalcade of chairs continues!
If election hijinks are your bag (you’re out there, I know you are!) then the past year of USG fun has been a field day. After last semester’s USG VP debacle (Ivy Gate!) we were hoping for a nice, quiet election cycle this time around. As usual, we were disappointed. Queue up the email!