Espy, however, has not yet hung any campaign posters.

The other leading presidential candidate, Lauren E. Bonner ’04, is involved with planning and organizing an AIDS awareness week and is a co-chair of “Dance Marathon,” a party to raise money for pediatric AIDS.

Both of these organizations, she said, are in “full swing” this week.

Bonner, however, said she has still been going door-to-door the past two nights soliciting votes.

“They’re all very busy people,” said Barkley, a former council presidential candidate.

“Sujean wasn’t even sure whether she wanted to run until the last minute. Last year, three of us wanted to run from a year out,” Barkley said.

Long said he thinks the out of council activities benefits leadership ability on council, even if it takes its toll on the amount of time spent campaigning.

“We don’t have as much time as a lot of past candidates had,” Long said. “But being a varsity athlete allows me to see where a significant portion of the student population is coming from.”

Both campaigns, however, say they will be increasing their efforts next week as the vote deadline nears.

“There’s going to be a definite push in the last four days of the campaign to aggressively win the freshman vote,” said Brendan J. Reed ’03, the Bonner-Long campaign manager.

“We are hoping to build up,” Lee said. “We haven’t started our presence in front of the Science Center yet.”

—Staff writer William M. Rasmussen canbe reached at wrasmuss@fas.harvard.edu.