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for the record, i personally know that mathilde wanted the spring fling line up to be--and i quote--"an educational musical experience"--meaning that she wanted underground bands that are not mainstream and/or appealing to headline--i repeat HEADLINE--spring fling. i personally wanted akon, who natasha had booked and who would be headlining, if it weren't for the delights over at the ydn who published some freak grad school student's editorial about akon's live shows being morally reprehensible or some other hypersensitive label. THAT editorial got the dean of student affairs involved, and he is the one who canceled akon. by this time, it was too late to get anyone else good. i applaud natasha for getting n*e*r*d at the last minute. once again, ydn gets it wrong and screws everything up.

"Sarin approached the News forcefully — and, we have reason to believe, dishonestly"

Will the YDN please explain this allegation?

These endorsements have become personal attacks on all of the candidates instead of constructive contributions to student decisions. I find these to be mean-spirited. Remember that these are your peers, not real-world politicians.

i'm just confused... how did the ydn endorse someone (williams) with neither experience nor a platform nor the ability to speak (did anyone else see her election video?). the endorsement just trashes sarin unfairly and says nothing positive about williams... it seems the ydn has a hatred for natasha (she's an editor for the herald, maybe that's it) and this endorsement is based on their personal sentiments rather than the reality of the situation, which is sarin would make a BETTER director of events.

VOTE NATASHA. there really is no chocie.

this is ridiculous. can you seriously imagine mathilde running a meeting? commanding a room? what we are talking about here is an EXECUTIVE position, not a cute cuddly babysitter. Natasha has the vision, the brains, the glamour, & the attitude to get shit done. No amount of petty ad hominem attacks from the YDN is going to change that.

Vote Natasha!

wow, ydn. picking the candidate with neither experience nor a platform. moronic even by ydn standards.

I second commenter #2's request. I checked the Op-Ed page's Spring Fling coverage from this season, and could not find anything about the incident to which the YDN refers. If this is internal YDN business, then it's fine that the board considered it when making an endorsement, but don't allude mysteriously to it in the paper and assume that students will get the point.

A lot of this year's endorsements have featured this sort of vague, serious-sounding allegation against candidates the YDN didn't choose. To be honest, at times they read like something out of a bad spy novel. I've been in group deliberations for elections and endorsements (though never with the YDN), and I know that this sort of anonymous criticism often sounds serious enough to carry a lot of weight. In group discussion, sometimes that's inevitable. For an editorial that was presumably written and edited to persuade students outside the YDN board, it's ineffective and inexcusable.

I'm not impressed with Sarin. She thinks she represents our mainstream. If that's so, Yale is a messed up place. The only thing she seemed to do for the Spring Fling committee was complain about not getting Akon.

If only real people started running for these positions, not high school student-government wannabes.

Rich Tao could have masturbated six new proposals for academic minor (all of which would ultimately be rejected) in the time it takes to craft one of those stupid YCC campaign videos or websites. This business is overrated.

Why do we even consider the YDN's endorsements? How are they more credible than anyone else at Yale?

Natasha is absolutely a shoe-in for the job. And Mathilde's campaign, particularly her slogan, is something a 9th grader would present.

Please, vote for experience, passion, and capability, not the idiocy of "Yale is a party and I want to throw it."

The YDN endorsements have always been completely worthless. That a group of ten random Yale students with no special knowledge (the YDN Board) has been able to even potentially swing elections in the past is a shame. At least now they are no longer even pretending to endorse based on objectivity, and it is now clear to everyone that these endorsements are entirely personal. Thank you for clarifying that, YDN.

I don't care which candidate you vote for, but shame on anyone who votes based on this.

For a newspaper so concerned with "professionalism," where's the sourcing? Since when is Spring Fling over-budget? Since when has it been mismanaged?

How can you allude to such claims without backing them up?

just fyi, for those of you puzzled by this insane ydn endorsement, tom kaplan and williams went to high school together - they go way back. it's a pity the m-board wasn't able to divorce their relationship with these candidates to pick the passionate individual who deserves to win this election (sarin)

it doesn't really matter though - sarin will obviously win. tom should reexamine those "journalistic ethics" he seems to care so much about though.

I personally know Mathildie, and know that she has what it takes to be an events cord., she is the kinda person that will rise to any challenge and do the best that she can, at this point thats all that matter. Good Luck Tealy !!!!!!

if this is a 'mismanaged' fling, then will you mismanage again for us natasha???

VOTE NATASHA SHE ROCKS.

congrats, Mathilde!