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...fellow Council members said that Holoshitz has used this position to push for a greater focus on issues that she had been involved with before joining the Council. Holoshitz has earned the reputation for working on issues that are not considered bread and butter UC issues. She pays special attention to issues relating to mental health, women, and safety...
...After three semesters on the Council, Holoshitz went from a politics-averse Quincy House UC representative to an adept manager and policy wonk...
...Staff speculated that her hesitance to run for Council president stemmed from her comfort with the pool of presidential hopefuls. “Andrea [Flores] was running and Andrea is a very strong representative of women and maybe Tamar felt comfortable in that regard,” he said...
...first campaign for the seat in Jan. 2008 pitted her against incumbent Jon T. Staff ’10 who had served on the Council since his freshman year. A newcomer to the internal UC politics, Holoshitz lost that election, but not by much, according to Staff...
...wasn’t used to that sort of environment,” she said of the practice of soliciting votes from council members through personal meetings which is a common tactic among candidates in committee elections. “I was really adamant let’s not sit down with everybody,” she said. “I had this philosophical objection to being in this really political position...