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Finne said that his campaigning for the coveted spot did not extend beyond sending e-mails reminding classmates to vote. “Certainly not a very public election in the way that the UC??s are,” said the former Undergraduate Council (UC) member...
...chair of the UC??s Student Affairs Committee, Ryan A. Petersen ’08, said that UC representatives planned to meet with Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles today to discuss the matter...
...Dudley campaign—was contested, with three or more candidates on the ballot. Last year’s race saw 86 students running for four dozen spots and featured many non-competitive elections. The cause of the spike in the competition was twofold. First, the trimmed-down UC??now comprising two committees, not three—cut seats on the council by one third. Second, more incumbents decided to run for UC??52 percent of UC members are incumbents this year, whereas last year, only a third returned, according to UC Public Relations Director Benjamin...
...freshman] than in the Houses.” Chen B. Fang ’10, a West Yard candidate who was president of his high school class for four consecutive years, said that many Yard-dwelling council hopefuls “don’t know what the UC??s all about.” “Half [the freshman candidates] saw e-mails from the UC and just signed up and didn’t know what they were getting into,” Fang speculated. The chairman of the UC Election Commission, Joshua G. Allen...
...election debate: essentially, how effectively a candidate can give evasive answers to difficult and often irrelevant questions.To an extent, this is the price one pays for holding popular elections. In the case of the UC, however, the whole situation is tragicomic, because the stakes are so low. The UC??s eloquent visionaries simply allocate money to student groups, provide shuttles to Yale and the airport, and launch a few badly planned social events. And since the creation of the Student Events Committee (SEC), the UC won’t even have responsibility for social events. Here, then...