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Dartboard must conclude that Wikler's water-based metaphors failed while Burton's visibility analogy succeeded. Burton's use of tenor and vehicle should be recognized and applauded by our community. However, it must be recognized that Wikler is a first-year, and with a little help from Expos, his use of contrived metaphors will doubtlessly improve...
Vice Presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03 sported the Don Johnson look with a Miami-Vice-ish ensemble complete with the open-collar olive shirt and coifed hair. The Driskell-Burton ticket went business and Sterling P. A. Darling '01 went just a little easier on the Dep gel. He even shed his jacket at the podium. (Maybe the council really does pay attention to our humble comments here at The Crimson...
...Undergraduate Council vice president and presidential candidates seemed to have official platforms that were more than a little influenced by their personalities. Could it be a coincidence that vice presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03, a member of the Harvard crew team, announced his intention to end Harvard's "sink or swim" atmosphere? The audience could hear the emotion in his voice as he promised to make Harvard into "a sea with a coast guard." Clearly, Wikler wanted us to draw the conclusion that only he, a Crew team member, could fill the position of a coast guard...
Unfortunately, he failed to realize that another vice presidential candidate, Katherine E. Tenney '01, participated in Harvard crew for two years and no doubt could stand as an equally competent coastguard. His entire platform thus undermined, Wikler's parting cry of "Don't miss the boat!" ironically applied more to him than to potential voters...
...Harvard has it all, but it's not all there for students," said vice presidential candidate Benjamin M. Wikler '03, who said the council should focus on bringing both "big and small" amenities--like rock concerts and two-ply toilet paper--to students...