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...treasurer. His e-mail concluded with asking me to give him a call if I needed help with recruiting next year. In no way is that a threat or pressure; nor did I interpret it as such. The only pressure on me was from various people (including many non-council members) e-mailing me and calling me telling me what they thought I should do. Furthermore I did not show that e-mail to Jason or anybody else and for some reason neither Jason nor The Crimson contacted me about it in which case I would have shot his claim...
Looking back on it all, however, I’m saddened that the average, non-council, non-newspaper Harvard undergrad was largely deprived of the really absurd, interesting stuff. Why? You could blame The Crimson for not giving in to sensationalism, or chalk it up to general student apathy about council-related news. But either way, people really missed out. In the interest of never letting the smallest story fall through the cracks, here’s just a sampling of the quirks of this winter’s council campaign...
...unique importance and influence as chair of the council’s Student Affairs Committee. Three of the last four council presidents previously held this office. Some members of the council have bemoaned this trend and the culture of loyalty and political favoritism it engenders. We worry that the structure of the council feeds its insularity and stifles the potential for reform. Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06, a non-council candidate, is an attractive choice for this reason. But unfortunately, Moore’s outside perspective does not compensate for his lackluster...
Four times in the last month, the council has gone into “executive session,” in which non-council observers—including The Crimson’s reporter—are kicked out of the meeting. Any matter discussed in executive session is made unconditionally secret, so council members are barred from discussing the details of any of these debates with outsiders. And when looking for a morsel more of information on the council’s most important actions, interested parties run into a recently-appointed press secretary, who seems to serve little purpose...
...Sever Hall classroom so frigid that council members could see their own breath, about 30 non-council members joined the student representatives to discuss recent proposals to move exams before winter break and create a month-long term in January...