Even Darling acknowledges that Burton has been busy with other projects.

He has met with administrators, handled student complaints about shuttle schedules, set up work groups at the start of the semester, run special elections that have seated almost 30 new members and contacted officials to ensure there will be recycling bins in the Yard next year.

Most visibly, in accord with his and Driskell's campaign platform, he has sponsored legislation to put feedback cards in dining halls and to administer a campus-wide questionnaire--Harvard Census 2000. The council voted to approve both bills.

Still, Darling says he wonders why the feedback cards--something that "seems like a pretty easy thing to do"--have not yet appeared in dining halls.

Burton says they're ready to be picked up from Kinko's.

Then there is Burton's work as a non-voting member of the Constitutional Committee, which has investigated possible changes to the council's constitution and bylaws over the last several weeks.

Burton, by all accounts, has been an active and vocal member of the committee, leading the charge to carve out a better-defined role for the council's vice president, a goal that many members agree with.