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There are a number of questions and controversies surrounding last month's Undergraduate Council presidential and vice-presidential elections, but we can draw only one conclusion from the confusion: Fentrice D. Driskell '01 and John A. Burton '01 overspent the campaign limit of $100, broke the election rules and should have been, but were not, disqualified by the Election Commission for their offenses...
While Election Commissioner David L. Levy '00 seems unable to keep his story straight as to whether or not the campaign overspent their $100 limit (his latest claim is that the campaign spent around $93), according to the commission's own rules, Driskell and Burton should have been found to exceed the cap. To begin with, they produced dozens of campaign buttons consisting of pieces of yellow paper taped over buttons obtained from a student group. Candidates have done this in previous years with other groups' buttons but have always been charged a fee for doing so because the pins...
...commission also charged Driskell and Burton only $1 for 100 servings of lemonade, provided by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS), which they handed out to people in front of the Science Center Dec. 15. The campaign claims it was given the lemonade for free by someone in the Mather House Dining Hall but that still does not make it a freely available resource. Sterling P. A. Darling '01, another presidential candidate, called HUDS and also asked for lemonade, and he was not only told that could not have it for free, but that he would be charged $1.50 per serving...
These violations, however, all pale in comparison to the most egregious offense committed by Driskell and Burton: mail-dropping campaign fliers to all first-years. These fliers put the candidates' names in the hands of every single first-year, and undoubtedly gave Driskell and Burton a very large advantage. This type of mail-dropping, however, is a direct violation of the policy stated on the Web site of Harvard University Mail Services. Even more frustrating is the fact that three of Driskell's opponents considered doing the same thing but decided against it. Darling called Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley...