I do not sympathize at all with Kate Galbraith's "disgust and outrage" over Undergraduate Council election campaigns. "The deeper problem" to which Ms. Galbraith referred in her letter of March 29, "Undergraduate Council Campaigning Was Absurd," has nothing to do with the elections, but with the weak social life at Harvard.
The campaigns, albeit intrusive and humorously self-indulgent, attempted to rectify this problem. They generated a vivacity and healthy activism rarely seen at Harvard.
Sure, the council and many of its candidates took themselves too seriously. Campus media and the candidates, with an entertaining sense of self-importance, "falsified" the gogetter politics of Washington. But it was damn fun and a step in the right direction. --Daniel Silverberg '97, The writer is a Crimson editor.
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