B.J. Averell '02 and Amias Moore Gerety '02 might not be the most experienced candidates for Undergraduate Council--but they're the only duo whose candidacy was inspired by the swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy.
When the band played Springfest last year, members took a liking to Averell's posters showcasing his own variety show, "The B.J. Show," and sought him out to compliment him.
The band complained about the council's handling of their Springfest event--and a candidacy was born.
"It made me think, 'I'm going to do something,'" Averell says.
Averell might seem like an unlikely council candidate.
He gained campus notoriety for his attempt to sneak onto an overbooked Delta Airlines flight home last Thanksgiving. He was caught hiding in the flight's bathroom and arrested, though all charges in the incident were later dropped.
But Averell--a campus funny-man known for membership in the improv group On Thin Ice and his cartoon Neil World in The Crimson--wants to make having fun into serious business for the council.
"We're out to make life more fun and more convenient for Harvard students," he says. "We're out to have a good time."
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