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...last City Council candidate to run on a student-oriented platform was Erik Snowberg, who ran in the 1999 City Council race while still a senior at MIT. Snowberg received 429 first-place votes, well below the necessary quota. DeBergalis, who says he asked Snowberg for campaign advice, is hoping for a better showing...
...student Erik C. Snowberg, for example, ran for the Cambridge City Council last fall on a platform of student representation in local politics...
...disappointed Snowberg finished last in the November election, garnering only 425 votes out of almost...
...poignantly illustrated by the fact that the voting was done by less than half of the city's registered voters. Few students showed up at the polling booths even for one of their own, at least if you take it from the lack of support for MIT student Erik Snowberg's candidacy. Snowberg finished 14th in the pool of 24 candidates, a sign that students still have little interest in Cambridge politics. However, Snowberg's campaign doesn't prove that student representation is a hopeless cause--his 429 votes show potential for future student-led campaigns for local office...
...Still, Snowberg said he was pleased with the student turnout...