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Corrected referendum results show greater discontent
Published: Friday, May 15th, 2009
Corrected results from the USG referendum asking students to evaluate top-level University administrators show that students are less satisfied with Princeton administration than was indicated by the data released on May 1.
The new results show that 45 percent of ...
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Let Yaroshefsky work his magic.
why hasn't USG/CDY e-mailed the correct results to the student body yet?
and...why have they refused to release the open-ended responses? these were part of the referendum too, and they were released last year. why not this year?
True dat.
One needs to wonder about a group that is incapable of getting simple polling data correct. Once again, Princeton students have shown themselves to be lacking. Rather than criticizing the administration, they should be getting their own acts together.
I suggested this in the original article too, but now that I see the price tag ($7500-$15000), I just have to repeat it here:
GET SOME COS MAJOR TO DO IT FOR INDEPENDENT WORK!
How retarded can this school be when it comes to getting value for money? Being a COS major, I would gladly have done this as JP work... and if someone would have been willing to pay me like what, $500?, I would have been thrilled!
@Science Prof
This original gaffe was in fact the fault of OIT who provided the USG with the incorrect results. OIT later discovered this error and reported it to the USG. If you want the full story, take a look on the USG website: usg.princeton.edu
The extended delay comes from the USG performing our own independent audit of the election. I went through and personally tabulated the votes this time, and my count matched the corrected OIT count, so we released the corrected results.
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@burning money
We certainly considered asking a computer science major to code this system, but we decided against this alternative for two reasons. First, once the coder graduates, it is up to us to find someone to support the code for the next 10 years. We are already having trouble finding willing and able students to administer Point and SCG. Second, because these are elections, the integrity of the code is of the utmost importance, and we wouldn't want the integrity of our system questioned because it was coded by a student, even if we had the code checked by an outside authority. We know that OIT will stand behind their "product" and be on-call in case there are difficulties or in case we need to update the system. OIT has been a tremendous help so far, and I look forward to working with them this summer.
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To others who are wondering why we didn't just purchase one of the existing solutions out there, we found that such systems were both more expensive and less adapted to our needs. We aren't just building a voting system, we are building an elections management suite -- it will help the elections managers do their job, which in turn means it makes it easier for them to run the elections fairly and smoothly. We are planning a series of thorough checks of the new system before we launch it so as to avoid problems like this from happening.
More details regarding the new system will be posted on the USG website as I work with OIT over the summer. If you have any additional comments, questions, or suggestions regarding the new system, please contact me via email: yaro@
-Mike Yaro
so what happens when the registrar "certifies" results?
blame should be placed on them too, for certifying bogus results.
tell 'em
Enough griping about the error in polling. Will the discontent among students be addressed or was this entire referendum completely pointless?
This administration sucks! I hope Tilghman and alumni recognize this and do something about it.