Election 2012 at Harvard
As voters across the United States traipsed to the polls and awaited the election results, so did students, faculty, and staff members at Harvard, the University that helped to educate both major presidential candidates. Nearby polling places were busy. Local pubs hosted parties to watch the results roll in. Harvard’s Schools organized viewing sessions and small discussion panels. Undergraduates filled their House TV lounges to see the vote tallies rise. Across Harvard Yard and into Allston, Harvard mirrored the nation, transfixed by a political process full of sound and fury and, this night, signaling much. At the polls Winnie Williams, a poll worker at the Graduate School of Design’s Gund Hall, was upbeat in the early afternoon despite arriving at 6 a.m. and looking ahead to several more hours until the polls close at 8 p.m. Poll work is not without its rewards, however — Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr....