Word: banerji
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Neeraj “Richie” Banerji ’06 and Steve Y. Lee ’06 took center stage at Wednesday night’s Undergraduate Council (UC) debate. They were funny, charming, and biting with their criticisms. We learned all about their views on Harvard...
...Banerji doesn’t like Final Clubs and thinks being UC president is “cool.” He also has experience (“Magnus, let me cut in, I was communications director.”) Lee thinks that outside candidates stand no chance of being elected and that Crimson photographers will “steal your souls.” Lee “dislikes the UC but thinks its funny,” while Banerji “does not, on both counts.” Lee also thinks that...
...learned a great deal about Banerji and Lee at this year’s UC debate for presidential and vice-presidential candidates. In total, the pair spoke for longer than either Magnus Grimeland ’07 and Thomas D. Hadfield ’08, John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ’07, or John F. Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07, all of whom are candidates for office. Banerji and Lee, sadly...
Treating the candidate’s answers as mere interludes to their next opportunity to speak, Banerji and Lee could perhaps be forgiven if somewhere in the midst of the circus, they had asked illuminating questions. Instead, they welcomed us to what they dubbed “the no-bullshit zone” by asking Gadgil, “Why do you want to be vice-president?” Unsatisfied with the response elicited by Banerji, Lee shot forth subsequently, “Why are you playing second-fiddle?” As if Gadgil didn?...
Thankfully, the night was somewhat salvaged when Banerji and Lee mercifully allowed the presidential candidates to question one another. But, even then, neither couldn’t resist downplaying the presence of the individuals who actually mattered that night, referring to the candidate questions as “pot shots” and “retaliations...