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...Undergraduate Council has chosen its new second-in-command. Last Thursday, Council members elected Clay T. Capp ’06, who ran unsuccessfully for the post in December, to replace Ian W. Nichols ’06, who resigned the position on May 8. The circumstances of Capp’s selection, however, stand to deprive the new vice president of much needed legitimacy, and leave open to him just one honorable course of action: resignation...
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...
Given the illegitimacy of his own selection, Capp has only one choice if he intends to serve with any sort of mandate; he must resign to run in a special vice presidential election in the fall in which the student body—or, at the very least, the new Undergraduate Council membership—would have the chance to choose its second-in-command, and to grant or deny Capp the office that he now holds illegitimately...
...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...
...sudden resignation of Undergraduate Council Vice President Ian W. Nichols ’06 steered Harvard’s student government into uncharted territory. The council’s inadequate response to the unexpected crisis, which saw former vice presidential candidate Clay T. Capp ’06 elected at a special council meeting last Thursday, speaks to a real need for change in the council’s bylaws. The selection of the council vice president is a matter too important to be left to a small group of representatives—subject to immense internal political pressures?...