Barkley brings significant experience to the race. He has represented Weld Hall and Adams House on the council since 1998 and is finishing a term as treasurer.
Johnson, who was in Barkley's proctor group as a first-year, is now a Kirkland House council representative and the publicity director for the Kirkland House Committee.
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"[Johnson] has his finger on the pulse of the average, apathetic Harvard student," Barkley says. "He speaks to issues in the way students understand them. It'll be fun running with him because we know each other well."