"We thought we could erase the political division on the council," Seton says of the "student services" versus "activist" debate over the council's mission. "We thought we could get beyond that."
Redmond now says instead of uniting a divided council, their partnership has itself been divided by the very politics they were hoping to overcome.
"Sometimes I can't believe I haven't fought more," sighs Redmond, who says she is just now realizing how little of the progressive agenda she could have accomplished as second-in-command.
"We really failed when it came to Radcliffe," Redmond says. "We didn't seize the moment. We should have asked why there was no student input."
If she was deciding whether to run for vice president all over again, Redmond says she wouldn't.
A split ticket is a nice idea, she says, but it doesn't work well in practice because it is so difficult to unify conflicting beliefs.
"Someone will always be the vice-president, and someone the president, so one [set of ideas] will always triumph over the other," she says.
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