Word: gadgil
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...year started, Ryan A. Petersen ’08 has served as SAC chair since February. Chairmanship of SAC has in the past been considered a stepping stone to the presidency, though this was not the case last year. In December 2005, committee chair and vice-presidential candidate Tara Gadgil ’07 finished in third place with running mate John F. Voith III ’07. Current president, John S. Haddock ’07, the winner of the election, was a SAC vice chair.Petersen, whose shaggy hair makes him noticeable around campus, would...
...time for this year’s unusually tumultuous presidential elections, during which one campaign accused another of registering its rightful website address and student groups accused the same campaign of equivocating its position on ROTC. The campaign of John F. Voith ’07 and Tara Gadgil ’07, the target of these accusations, was also accused of attempting to convince rival ticket Magnus Grimeland ’07 and Thomas D. Hadfield ’08 to withdraw from the race.With former frontrunners Voith and Gadgil embroiled in controversy, John S. Haddock...
...discussion with the new leadership, I’ve realized that the best way for me to help campus is in positions outside of the UC,” said Voith in the e-mail. Voith’s announcement follows the resignation of his former running mate, Tara Gadgil ’07. Gadgil, who also served as the chair of the Student Affairs Committee last semester, also announced her resignation over the UC open list, writing that she had decided to go abroad to India for the spring semester. “Although I have been thinking about...
...Voith-Gadgil campaign was not the only source of negativity. The overwhelmingly unenthusiastic “they won’t get stuff done” message of the Grimeland-Hadfield campaign combined with two new web blogs to color this year’s campaign. Every comment was subject to overwhelming public scrutiny from multiple sources, often tinged with disapproval. As a result, this year’s campaign put an even higher premium on positive publicity. In this effort, Haddock-Riley succeeded above the other two campaigns—though we are still unclear as to the specifics...
...tenor of the UC campaign, more students got involved than probably ever before, with election turnout the second highest of all time. The seriousness of this involvement is debatable, however, as even facebook groups endorsed candidates. The “Yankee Empire,” for instance, supported Voith-Gadgil, who they wrote promised “a sincere effort to eliminate the Red-Sox-normative ethos of the campus, and improve the overall quality of life for Bronx Bomber fans.” (Facebook group “Red Sox Nation” endorsed Haddock-Riley.) Meanwhile...