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Although Haddock said he wanted to “run the UC as a team,” discord arose when his bill to give immediate funding to House Committees (HoCos) was opposed by former CLC Chair and unsuccessful UC presidential candidate John F. Voith...
...premiere will be indicative of the risks the show is willing to take. According to the show’s Executive Director, Isaac H. Ravishankara ’07, the episode will feature Undergraduate Council President-Elect John S. Haddock ’07 and defeated rival John F. Voith ’07 “in a scene together,” an appearance by the entirety of a capella singing group the Harvard Callbacks, cameos from the Radcliffe Rugby Team, and a meticulously-filmed sequence where the camera shows eight consecutive scenes in one, long, unbroken shot...
...tenor of this year’s campaign was overwhelmingly negative. Allegations that the John F. Voith ’07-Tara Gadgil ’07campaign registered HaddockRiley.com—the surnames of their biggest rivals, John S. Haddock ’07 and Annie R. Riley ’07—attempted to bribe the Magnus Grimeland ’07-Tom D. Hadfield ’08 campaign to drop out of the race, and made misleading and conflicting statements to the Harvard Republican Club and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Transsexual Student Alliance...
...Voith-Gadgil campaign was not the only source of negativity. The overwhelmingly unenthusiastic “they won’t get stuff done” message of the Grimeland-Hadfield campaign combined with two new web blogs to color this year’s campaign. Every comment was subject to overwhelming public scrutiny from multiple sources, often tinged with disapproval. As a result, this year’s campaign put an even higher premium on positive publicity. In this effort, Haddock-Riley succeeded above the other two campaigns—though we are still unclear as to the specifics...
...tenor of the UC campaign, more students got involved than probably ever before, with election turnout the second highest of all time. The seriousness of this involvement is debatable, however, as even facebook groups endorsed candidates. The “Yankee Empire,” for instance, supported Voith-Gadgil, who they wrote promised “a sincere effort to eliminate the Red-Sox-normative ethos of the campus, and improve the overall quality of life for Bronx Bomber fans.” (Facebook group “Red Sox Nation” endorsed Haddock-Riley.) Meanwhile...