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...UC’s focus on improving student life could be dated to 1996, when the council opened up what were then internal presidential elections, more than 15 years after the UC’s founding. Around this time, presidential candidates began touting student-focused platforms, marking a shift from the council’s earlier function...
History indicates that Undergraduate Council insiders hold a fearsome advantage in presidential elections. But the two pairs of outsider candidates in this year’s race say they see widespread discontent with the status quo, and that 2008 might just be the year of the underdog...
...Since the establishment in 1996 of a popularly-elected UC president and vice president, the top leaders of the council have always been bred within it. Experience gives insider candidates a list of accomplishments to be touted as well as the baggage of initiatives gone awry. And this year—as every year—the outsiders are banking on the fact that the latter will outweigh the former...
...favorites this time around, current UC Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 and Finance Committee Chair Randall S. Sarafa ’09, are sitting pretty as the only contenders who have served on the council. Their campaign manager, Maryellen “Mel” C. McGowan ’09, says she expects this season’s contest to be a “slightly more low-key election than in years past” because of the composition of the playing field. It would take “something new and uncharted...
...Frances I. Martel ’09, say that their rookie status and original ideas—not jaded or distracted by the inner workings of the UC—will ultimately lead them to victory on a campus allegedly disillusioned by the current council...