Two quick things on which to comment:

Just received an email from Elections Council. Apparently tabulation is not going to take place until Friday, April 26th at the earliest. Seems that they can't tabulate until the J-Council is done with their hearings. It seems strange that we had election results a full week earlier last year despite all the controversies until you realize that we have new elections laws that force all hearings to wait until after elections are completed. Two things about that: 1. This is obviously too long to wait for elections results, why can't we hold hearings while elections are going on, but wait until afterwards to release the rulings? 2. Elections have been over for ahilw, why weren't any hearings held last week?

Second. CalStuff comments on Take Back the Night Week and the contentious factoid that 1 in 4 women on a college campus are raped. He also says he hasn't seen this yet in distribution. I received a flyer from Jessica Quindel herself that said something to the effect of: "15,000 women at Cal = 4,000 rapes at Cal" or something like that, I don't remember exactly. So yes, this statistic still won't die and continues to cheapens the tragedy and trauma of rape as a pervasive and real crime.

Later.

Seems like CalStuff seems to be taking issue with the Daily Cal application process. I'm curious as to what he would like the applicants to do. God forbid we require our columnists to turn in sample columns. Somehow, I think it's good that we get columnists who can write on deadline. His unfounded and ignorant assumption about columnists being "english majors with too much time" is just weird.

He seems to mistake columnists for investigative reporters.

Plus, honestly if you can't write 2100 quality words in ten days, you shouldn't be a columnist.

Godspeed.