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Contrary to what their blood-red campaign posters demand, Undergraduate Council presidential candidates Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08 do not actually want to “kill the UC.” Rather, they want to wound it severely.The offbeat presidential candidate and his armchair-theorist running mate say that if elected, they would eliminate the UC’s role as middleman between students and the administration and transfer decision-making power to undergraduates.Neither Hwang nor Wong have had any UC experience, but they embrace their outsider status...
...answered “yes” to any of the questions above, then Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alex S. Wong ’08 are, without a doubt, the choice for you. Their position is simple and their demands pithy: Terminate the UC. Period...
...mainstream candidates. When the candidate pool is thick, minority viewpoints are given a voice and the most fundamental issues can be brought to light and discussed—for example, the elimination of the UC is the hallmark of Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08’s campaign. We are also glad that these campaigns are well funded. Each ticket needs to be able to get its platform out to the entire student body—a formidable number of people. In this day and age, a small budget would...
...blatant opposition to the Hadfield-Goldenberg campaigners, their supporters chant “we’re not talking about the UC, we’re talking about real change.” Most infamously thus far, the Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08 ticket purport the slogan “Kill the UC, Kill them Dead” in a “radical reformist” vein, Hwang says. The other notables are Gillis-Wimberley’s “Join the Fight” and Anene...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) and their lack of Council experience as the two main reasons for their withdrawal—writing that they had entered the race “drunk with idealism.” Their resignation leaves Tim R. Hwang ’08 and Alexander S. Wong ’08 as the only remaining ticket without UC experience. Musa and Ross-Rieder said they will look for alternate routes to enact change at Harvard because the UC has inadequately addressed the “roots of students dissatisfaction.” “Harvard?...