When Blaise C. Hill '00 got a call from the president of the Undergraduate Council, he was in for a surprise.
"One of my friends thought it would be a good gag if I woke up on Friday morning as the new U.C. representative for Winthrop House," Hill said. "So he kind of secretly enlisted a bunch of his friends and my friends to vote for me."
Hill discovered he had been elected when council President Noah Z. Seton '00 called him with the news.
"I didn't even know that the U.C. elections had occurred," Hill said.
Hill is one of the many write-in candidates who won a seat in this year's council elections. A total of 17 write-in candidates were elected, and in several Houses write-ins won more votes than official candidates did.
Dudley House, which had no candidates, is represented by two write-ins, and Dunster House saw only one candidate for five open seats.
Not every write-in was as shocked as Hill to find they had been elected--several didn't let a lack of formal candidacy stop them from organizing campaigns.
"I was thinking about running at the beginning of the year but I didn't see any posters telling me when," said Hoon-Jung Kim '01, a Leverett House representative.
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