“The council has moved forward—there are very few people who are still talking about those rumors that were being spread and most of them aren’t even on the council,” Glazer said yesterday.
In Monday’s op-ed, Glazer said for the first time that Nichols had been presented with a petition of impeachment before his resignation.
“Ten members of the UC signed a petition of impeachment for Ian Nichols on the grounds that he was not doing the job to which he was elected and the effects of that were hurting the council and the campus,” Glazer wrote. “Ian chose to resign, and did so because, as he said, he did not make the UC his top priority.”
Nichols did not respond to repeated requests for comment yesterday.
Debate about the accuracy of Lurie’s op-ed continued on Cambridge Common, a blog run by Andrew H. Golis ‘06, who was Glazer and Capp’s campaign manager.
In a chain entitled “not QUITE libelous (maybe?),” Golis challenged Lurie’s version of events.
“The idea that Matt or Clay or any of their friends would threaten other people’s jobs or political futures is an outrageous, slanderous and unbased claim,” Golis posted. “I think it’s libel.”
““People who would believe these kinds of rumors and accusations need to calm down and get some perspective,” Golis said yesterday. “It’s the Undergraduate Council, not ‘The Godfather, Part II.’”
Former UC Finance Committee Chair Joshua A. Barro ’05 posted in defense of Lurie’s column, which Golis had called “astoundingly dishonest” on the site. Barro raised the question of why Capp, as a heavily-endorsed member of the UC in December’s elections, had won by such a narrow margin two weeks ago.
“The whole column that Jason wrote doesn’t have to stand or fall as one item,” Barro said yesterday.
Former President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 commented on Cambridge Common that he would have liked to see more competition for the vice-presidential seat in order to engender “more discussion and debate” about the position, even though he specifically endorsed Capp.
“Politics aren’t for the faint of heart, but that doesn’t mean that anyone was treated unfairly or in an underhanded manner,” Mahan wrote.
—Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu.
—Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu.