Tel-Aviv University's Political Science Department offers a course named "Torture".Yes, it's about dark regimes that routinely interrogate people using methods I don't even want to imagine. In any case, I wonder what the students of that course say to each other during the academic year - "are you prepared for torture today?", "I missed torture yesterday, was there anything important?"
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Since everybody's talking about the elections, I'll also put in my 5 cents' worth. It's a story about the first ever computerized elections for the Tel-Aviv University's Student Council, around 1989. The voting machines were situated in central locations all over the TAU campus, and accepted our student cards (which had a bar code) as identification. The screen would display an alphabetic list of 20 candidates, and you had to choose three you liked most. For example, you selected 4, 7, and 18; the machine would then rearrange them as 1. 2. 3. and confirm that those were the correct ones. You had to press "yes" and that was it.
The elections progressed beautifully, until the ballot period was closed, and the Computation Center had to publish the results. As it turned out, all the votes went to Abramovich, Ben Zion, and Greenstein...
Originally posted on wildernesscat.vox.com
