Undergraduate Council (UC) Vice President Ian W. Nichols ’06 resigned his position this evening at the UC’s weekly meeting, telling council members that he was concerned he had not made the UC his top priority this semester.

“I don’t feel I’ve really made the UC my number one priority this semester and I don’t know if this whole split ticket thing is working out,” Nichols said at the meeting.

His announcement was met with shocked silence from UC members present at the meeting.

“It seems like this will be the best thing for the council, the campus, and for him personally,” UC President Matthew J. Glazer ’06 told the council after Nichols’ announcement.

The UC will elect a new vice president at its next meeting, Glazer said.

UC members have criticized Nichols recently for his absence from the last two UC general meetings and the UC-sponsored Springfest.

At last week’s meeting, members publicly questioned whether UC attendance policies applied to the vice president.

At that meeting, Glazer answered that they do but did not elaborate.

One of Nichols’ responsibilities as vice president is to keep track of members’ attendance at general and committee meetings.

Nichols was elected last December as part of a nearly unprecedented split ticket, raising questions about whether a leadership team that had run separately could be effective.

Nichols ran with Tracy “Ty” Moore ’06, and Glazer ran with Clay T. Capp ’06 as his running-mate.

One part of the bill to reform the UC’s structure and constitution up for consideration at tonight’s meeting would require that the president and vice president be elected together as one ticket.

UC bylaws call for a successor to be elected at the "next full council meeting."

—Check thecrimson.com for updates throughout the night.

—Staff writer Liz C. Goodwin can be reached at goodwin@fas.harvard.edu.