Other planks in the Smith-Chapa platform include student safety (the candidates have mentioned increased sexual violence education, campus-wide HIV testing drives and a review of the Administrative Board’s policies on disputes among students), Faculty diversity and advocacy of certification for such fields as Latino Studies, Ethnic Studies and Gender/Sexuality Studies.

In their platform, Chopra and Stannard-Friel underscored extending shuttle service until dawn, expanding Office of Career Services hours, assisting student groups in winning grants by consolidating applications for funding, lobbying for student representation on the Ad Board and presenting a thorough plan for a student center to be constructed after the University moves to Allston.

Darst and Simon, like the other tickets, pledge to push for increased student group funding and matching funds from the University, as well as securing space for these groups. Additionally, they said they would brink back the UC Books program and improve the council’s website.

Both the Lurie-Misono and Smith-Chapa tickets have said they feel the council has failed to represent the student body adequately.

Lurie wrote that in order to become more representative, “the council must not loudly proclaim that it will undertake tasks that are outside its scope.”

—Staff writer Alexander J. Blenkinsopp can be reached at blenkins@fas.harvard.edu.