Glazer is the third consecutive Student Activities Committee chair to win the council presidency; he and Nichols, who is vice chair of the Finance Committee have a combined six years of council experience.
About 120 Glazer supporters, including most of the council, gathered in the Eliot House common room of current Council Vice President Michael R. Blickstead ’05 to celebrate the election, yet the mood was bittersweet.
Capp said at the gathering that he would continue to strive for the platform goals of his campaign as a representative from Kirkland House.
“Matt being elected means our platform will be enacted,” Capp said. “I’m certainly going to be an active part of enacting it.”
Nichols said he planned on consulting with Moore closely during his vice-presidency.
“He’ll be my right-hand man,” Nichols said. “The good thing about this is Matt and I are going to feel obligated to bring both of our running mates’ ideas to the table and we’ll have a bigger pool of ideas to pull from.”
Capp said he was disappointed at his loss, but that he was optimistic that Nichols would be a successful vice president.
“He has a lot to live up to now, and I’m confident he will,” Capp said.
Glazer said he expects that his and Nichols’ first priorities will be to engage the student body in the Curricular Review and to improve the council’s structure.
Current Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05, who endorsed Glazer but spent time at both low-key presidential and vice-presidential victory parties, said Glazer would be a successful council leader.
“In terms of the presidential candidate, there was a clear choice from the beginning,” Mahan said.
Nicolais and Mannapperuma, who received 491 and 579 votes respectively, gathered in Lowell House Junior Common Room to hear the election results.
“Everyone should run for UC at some point in their Harvard career,” said Nicolais. “You make a lot of friends and learn a lot.”
Glazer and Nichols will assume their leadership roles on the council in February.
—Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Elena P. Sorokin can be reached at sorokin@fas.harvard.edu.