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All Praise the Conquering Hero
Let’s not be too hard on The College’s latest “Alumni” Trustee; Mitch Kurz ‘77 seems like a thoughtful, even original guy. Anyone who performs a mid-career switch and is successful in his second professional life, too, will get a nod from this space.
But Kurz is the fruit of the poisonous tree, the product of a tainted system that is receiving ever less respect from alumni. In the recent election, 9,008 alumni participated, but Kurz received only 7,650 votes — which means that of the people who voted in the election (13% of all alumni with whom the College is in contact), 15% sent in ballots that did not include a vote for Kurz, even though they had nobody else for whom to vote. Why would 1,358 alumni who took the time to vote in a single-candidate election send in ballots that did not indicate a preference for the only Trustee on the ballot? I’ll leave the answer to that question up to you. Here’s a hint:
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