Of course, Driskell and Burton weren't the only candidates to try to reach out to voters. But they did have a unique way of doing so.

While most candidates stuck to basic 8.5" x 11" poster designs, Driskell and Burton convinced Tommy's House of Pizza to let them post up a large, 10-foot-wide poster urging students to vote for them.

And shortly before the end of the election, Driskell and Burton convinced the Harvard Yard Mail Center to put their campaign materials in every first-year mailbox.

Yet if Driskell and Burton ran a creative campaign, some council members say it was based on a creative interpretation of campaign rules.

Darling said he asked Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans if he too could stuff the mailboxes. But she denied him permission, at which point he told her they had already been stuffed by Driskell and Burton.

"I have heard rumors that materials were 'stuffed' on behalf of another candidate but do not know whether that is in fact true; that candidate did not approach me for permission to access [the] boxes," Nathans wrote in an e-mail message.

Darling then cried foul. Darling supporter Kyle D. Hawkins '02 sent a letter to the EC on behalf of Darling and several other candidates protesting the fliers' placement in mailboxes.