Matthew J. Glazer ’06 is sitting on a table in front of a white board in the Undergraduate Council’s office in the basement of Holworthy. He looks on as the Student Affairs Committee (SAC) Chair attempts to divide UC members into groups for their meeting later that night, dry-erase marker squeaking. Suddenly, a swishing noise erupts from one of the many external, brightly colored pipes that twist through the room.

Perhaps, somewhere in Holworthy, a first-year just flushed the toilet.

“It’s definitely a basement,” Glazer says dryly.

In the past few weeks, the UC has made it a priority to clean out the office which, Glazer says, has not been sorted through since before he joined the UC, two-and-a-half years ago.

The excavation of the office, in which three fax machines, several phones, and a Plinko board, among other things, were unearthed, is a little like what Glazer hopes to do during his two semesters at the helm of the UC, with a structural reform committee already at work on making proposals for changes to the makeup of the organization.

“This year I really want to get rid of these traditional issues, for example [24-hour] libraries. If you look at campaigns for the past ten years everybody’s said it,” Glazer says, tucking his trademark long locks behind his ears.

The administration’s recent announcement that Lamont would be open for 24-hours next year after the UC advocated for the change, has been “encouraging,” Glazer says.

But in order to clean house, Glazer keeps his own schedule cluttered with more meetings than class, has no time for sleep, and maintains a diet consisting primarily of Balance Bars.

WAKE-UP CALL

Andrew H. Golis ’06, Glazer’s roommate since freshman year, says he learned long ago how to fall asleep with Glazer’s light on, relying on a good pair of earplugs.

“He’s known to fall asleep either with his face in the keyboard or on the couch in strange positions,” Golis says of his roommate, who apparently only sleeps when there is nothing else to do. And there is always something on the agenda.

Formerly holding the position of SAC chair—four out of five previous UC presidents were SAC chairs—Glazer won the presidency last December in a split-ticket election that paired him with Vice President Ian W. Nichols ’06.

Glazer says he wants to clean some issues off the UC’s agenda quickly, like extended dining hall hours, better Teaching Fellows, a fairer grants system, and more student space for offices and meetings.

“Now 24 hours a day there’s stuff to do. There’s no question that you can’t miss a day,” Glazer says of the transition. “It’s on a whole different level.”