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Such a rule alteration will not, however, sufficiently address the problems with Capp??€™s election. Capp holds the second most important seat in Harvard’s student government as a result of an undemocratic selection process, a reality that will not change with the modification of UC protocol called for by this newspaper. Capp??€”elected by the members of a council that has been marinating in its own notorious internal politics for eight months and not by the student body to which he is responsible as vice president—cannot claim any real kind...
...Capp??€™s selection is illegitimate not only because of he was chosen by a deeply flawed electorate, but also because he was not subjected to scrutiny from the student body. Candidacies for Nichols’ vacant seat were announced before the vote at Thursday’s council meeting, which was barely (if at all) publicized. There was no real chance for students to even find out who the candidates were, let alone to tell their representatives how they felt about those candidates, before the election took place...
Clay Capp is as qualified as any to serve as the vice president of the UC. The ultimate judgment on Capp??€™s qualifications must, however, rest with the students to whom he, as UC vice president, is responsible. Simply changing the rules for the next time the council’s vice president resigns unexpectedly does not go far enough to address the problems with Capp??€™s undemocratic selection. As President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 continues to push his agenda for council reform, it would be sadly hypocritical for his right-hand...
While we feel that Capp??€™s selection as vice president exposes real flaws in the council’s rules of procedure, we also recognize that, under the rules as they now stand, his election was legitimate. The UC ought to move on from the regrettable circumstances of Capp??€™s election to focus on what it needs to get done through the end of the school year and over the summer. That business, however, ought to include changes to the council’s bylaws to reflect the inadequacy of the current system of internally choosing...
...definitely necessary for the council to have a vice president in place over the summer to facilitate the ongoing work of the executive board. The manner of Capp??€™s election can be justified by the timing of Nichols’ resignation, which came at the beginning of reading period, when looming exams and severe time pressure would have precluded a full election campaign regardless of the council’s bylaws. This reasoning fails, however, because the council’s rules mandate this kind of internal selection, timing aside...