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...Since the establishment in 1996 of a popularly-elected UC president and vice president, the top leaders of the council have always been bred within it. Experience gives insider candidates a list of accomplishments to be touted as well as the baggage of initiatives gone awry. And this year—as every year—the outsiders are banking on the fact that the latter will outweigh the former...
...favorites this time around, current UC Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ’09 and Finance Committee Chair Randall S. Sarafa ’09, are sitting pretty as the only contenders who have served on the council. Their campaign manager, Maryellen “Mel” C. McGowan ’09, says she expects this season’s contest to be a “slightly more low-key election than in years past” because of the composition of the playing field. It would take “something new and uncharted...
...fact that you see so many outsider tickets is indicative of students looking at the UC and seeing something they don’t really like and want changed,” Martel says...
Sundquist and Sarafa’s UC record precedes them as they campaign. But it will only give them a boost if voters recall what they tout as their accomplishments, such as succesfully pushing for an overhaul of the academic calendar, instead of more complicated matters, such as this fall’s dispute over party grants...
...Martel, one of the outsider presidential candidates, puts the chance that voters will view Sundquist’s past negatively at 50 percent. He points to Sundquist’s association with his boss, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, as a possible detriment to the campaign...