Hornstein actually had no campaign to speak of. He did not lobby representatives, except to try to persuade eventual candidate Jonathan D. Unger '92 to run, which would have relieved him of the burden of running himself, he says.

Hornstein also was the only candidate to miss the chair's debate and he did not formally decide that he would run until nominated election night. With only quickly sketched remarks, wearing a sweat-shirt in contrast to the other candidates' suits and ties, Hornstein still came the closest out of six unsuccessful candidates to beating Rauch.

"I think Joel did as well as he did because he is a very effective speaker and he is very clear on his stances," said Bonni N. Grant '92, the council's social chair, on election night.

"I'm ambivalent about the fact that my failure to mount a real campaign helped lead to my defeat for chair," Hornstein says. "On the one hand, I felt a sort of duty to run. It seemed to me I offered the council certain ideas and abilities that no other candidate offered. At the same time, though, I knew I was already into the negative sleep zone.

"Everyone thought [Rauch] deserved the job for the hard work he had put in but no one actually thought he would get it," Hornstein says. "Had I mounted a real campaign I think it's very possible I would have won."

But instead, Hornstein--the candidate who offered perhaps the most clear-cut vision of the council's direction on election night--is the vice chair, responsible not for providing direction to the council, but for more mundane tasks such as keeping attendance and running the office.

In his campaign, Hornstein called for the abolition of the council's political ad hoc committees, and urged a council move towards offering new suggestions for solving student problems within faculty committees.

"I do think the UC has more power than students and most members realize," he says. "When the UC tries to take political stances directly opposed to the declared opinion of the administration, the council is due for failure. Where the UC can make a big difference is introducing ideas which have not been brought up before."

But Rauch's vision of a council with a grassroots agenda, determined less by him than by the rest of the council and its constituents, prevailed on election night.

"How do you get 88 people working?" Rauch asked in his campaign speech. "You can't get them to carry out a pre-set agenda. First of all, they won't. I also doubt my own ability to set such a complete agenda. Becoming UC chair does not make you an expert in everything. Eighty-eight people will work on projects which interest them."

Personality Conflict?

The different political agendas of these two council leaders are matched by their very different personalities.

Hornstein characterizes Rauch as "a very easy person to get along with--I've never seen him lose his temper. Personality-wise we are very different," he adds. "I would have a much more difficult time working with a clone of myself."

But Hornstein says he will subsume his own agenda and dominating personality under Rauch's vision.

"While I certainly do have a strong sense of what the agenda should be, I've accepted that I'm number two and that decisions as to the council's agenda will be made by the executive board as a whole and the council as a whole. My role will be a fairly limited one," he says. "It already is frustrating, but Evan was elected chair, not me."

Perhaps the one thing that will get the two through the year without too much conflict is a shared interest in the council, and in politics in general. Both intend to continue their political careers after graduation, and--as Hornstein remembers it--the two share a curiousity about government as an academic field as well.

In the spring of their first year, Hornstein recalls, the two ended up in the same government tutorial. Although Rauch claims Hornstein didn't bother to show up all that much, Hornstein says they in fact did both spiritedly pursue the subject in class.

"I think both of us were very enthusiastic about the subject matter," Hornstein says. "An outsider looking in might have thought that we were tremendously brown-nosing."