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Though some Council members, such as Hayward, argued during the debate period that the UC should move on from the drama surrounding the presidential elections and direct its attention back to the “business of the council,” the censure motion—which requires a majority vote—passed 26-15-1 by secret ballot...
...can’t move forward when something this big happened...this is the only thing that students were talking about this year” said former UC member Jon T. Staff V ’10, who attended the meeting as a visitor...
According to the censure resolution, which required 10 signatories to be brought to the general Council, McLeod “did knowingly abuse the power of her office” by collaborating with former UC Student Affairs Committee Chair Tamar Holoshitz ’10 and former UC presidential candidate Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10—both campaign staffers for former presidential candidate George J.J. Hayward ’11 and his running mate Felix M. Zhang’11—to send the “unsubstantiated e-mail” from the official ucpres@fas.harvard.edu...
Chris W. Danello ’12, who as UC parliamentarian was the main advocate for censure, said during the hearing that the motion to censure—an expression of the Council’s formal disapproval of a member’s actions that carries no other consequences—was not a personal vendetta against McLeod but rather a “simple question” of upholding the rules of the UC...
Also in response to this year’s election debacle, the UC passed legislation creating an Election Reform Task Force, which will propose reforms to the independent Election Commission by March...