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According to Jennifer W. Grove '94, a co-chair of the U.C.'s Residential Committee, the Council kept the campaign period short to promote fairness. They apparently feared that not all students would be financially equipped to put up posters over a period of several weeks. Peter K. Lee '94, secretary of the council, also claimed the purpose of "evening things...
...there is only room on the Council for ambitious opportunists with experience in spreading around their names. The current campaign process seems to guarantee that only these people will be elected. Grove agreed that "most people vote based on who they know," calling this a "fact of undergraduate politics...
...Grove also admitted that few first-years voted in last year's election, even though they were held in the Union. In fact, council member even called out to students in an effort to lure them to the voting tables. If so few voters came out after three days of recruitment in a location frequented by all first-year students, the U.C. cannot call itself a truly representative body...
...Grove was optimistic about increasing turnout, saying the candidates "will be having their friends get out" for this year's voting. If the goal of the Council is to increase its representation of students, aiming at the candidates' friends for votes is definitely not the answer...
...Spicy grove, cinnamon tree...