After discovering she had missed the deadline to become a formal candidate, Kim e-mailed friends in her House asking them to write her in and finished fourth in the six-seat election.
"I figured I wouldn't need too many votes," she said.
Joseph P. Chase '02 had the same philosophy when he started his write-in campaign.
"I saw the signs on the day of the election telling us to vote and realized I had missed the deadline to be a candidate," Chase said.
Chase said he talked to a few friends about his ideas for the council and ended up the overall winner of the five-seat Dunster House election.
The only formal Dunster candidate, Chad A. Wathington '01, came in fourth.
"It was weird to go to uc-vote and see my name as the only name there," Wathington said. "Maybe it's [because of] a distrust in the U.C. or a general apathy on campus. In either case, it's sad."
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