Harvard Business School officials are currently investigating a student's alleged attempt to rig the elections of the school's prestigious Finance Club Last week.

First-year MBA student Murry Gunty resigned as co-president-elect after the club's incumbent president found that he had asked non-members to vote using the names of club members.

Gunty said he resigned because he didn't want to take over "if rules were apparently violated" but insisted that the non-members voted as "proxies" for the members, according to the Harbus News, the Business School's student newspaper.

Chip Schorr, another first-year Business School student and Gunty's running mate, also resigned, though the club's investigation concluded that Schorr was not involved with the election tampering.

The alleged tampering has brought some negative attention to the school's highly-touted ethics program, which was established with a $20 million pledge five years ago. First-year MBA student are required to take courses in the program.

Incident 'Unfortunate'

Andrew Durnford and Brian Webber, the runners-up in the election, replaced Gunty and Schorr as co-presidents. Durnford said that he and Webber were disappointed by what had happened in the elections, but hope that it will not mar the club's future.

"We fell it's unfortunate that this whole incident occurred," Durnford said, "but we're looking ahead...and we're excited about the future."

Harbus News Publisher Phil Collins said the incident is the talk of the campus.

Letters to the publication have ranged fromcalls for the alleged perpetrator's expulsion torequests that the administration "use some degreeof kindness" with him, said Collins.

"This whole thing has engendered a lot ofdiscussion on campus surrounding ethics," Collinssaid.

Business School administrators did not returncalls for comment.

The Finance Club brings speakers to campus andassists Business School students in locating jobsafter graduation