Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Munching on some popcorn chicken, he chats about the Red Sox, butterscotch pudding and the 1999 elections for the president and vice president of the Undergraduate Council.
The first question lobbed into his court is, on the surface, quite simple--"Todd, are you running for U.C. president?"
"Everyone has to publicly pretend that you don't start running until November, but everyone's positioning themselves," says Beth A. Stewart '00, the council's former president.
"[You have to] institutionalize yourself as a figure of authority," says current council president Noah Z. Seton '00. "That type of posturing begins very early on."
Thomas Sze Leong Yu '00, co-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association (HRCSA), says that he is not surprised that the Chinese government responded as they did.