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...auguries of brilliance began early for Brian Ross Melendez, born Gennuso...
...Brian Melendez '86 is the kind of guy who over-achieves in his spare time, and Dolores skips nary a beat when asked where her son wants to go in life: "To the White House...
...while Melendez is now universally admired and acknowledged as the father of the current student government, his public persona may have accounted for his near defeat at the hands of little known challenger Betsy Touhey '86 when he ran for a second term as Council chair in February of 1985. Touhey, who became a candidate only after a group of council representatives drew straws earlier that evening, lost to Melendez by one vote...
...Melendez readily admits that has not always been his own best advertisement. "I'm still an extremely shy, insecure, socially inept person," he says. He is leaning back Lee Iacocca-style on a cushion in a closet-sized South House single, packed with electronic gimmickery, file cabinets, and impeccably stacked back copies of The Crimson, The Independent, The Salient, The Gazette, and the Harvard College Forum...
...roll call was being taken, more than half a dozen council members approached me, demanding in various tones of civility that I ask Melendez to withdraw the motion. One member even suggested that, since only those at the meeting would know whether a quorum existed, it did not matter. Obviously they feared, as I did, that not enough members were present, yet they wanted to disregard their Constitution and proceed with the meeting anyway. The hisses and angry words which I had received when calling for a quorum indicated to me that the council as a whole agreed...