Word: cleemann
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...Undergraduate Council is a farce. It is an irrelevant debate society superimposed on a glorified dance committee." --Joseph G. Cleemann '98 in his position paper for president of the Undergraduate Council...
Students are generally disdainful of the council elections. Like Cleemann, they feel that the council is itself over-hyped and unnecessary. This is a shame because it is apathy exemplified. It seems that undergrads who can be so concerned about the world outside of Harvard forsake their civic obligations here as if they were second rate. While the cynics are correct that the council has limited funding ($120,000 is not all that much money for a student government) and often reduces itself to petty infighting, they ignore the democratic process which is in and of itself a beneficial lesson...
Although the issue of strength defines Cleemann's platform he has also staked out positions on more standard issues...
...demeanor--and his reasoning--Cleemann has all the trappings of a serious candidate, albeit one with a radically different view of councils place on campus...
...Cleemann, a former council member from Pforzhiemer house, says the councils passive attitude fails to generate power needed to gain concessions for undergraduates...