After Deadline Extension, Number of Candidates for UC Hits 102

A total of 102 students are running for seats on the Undergraduate Council for the 2016-2017 academic year after the body decided to push back the deadline for declaring candidacy.

After the original Friday deadline, several Houses had fewer students running for seats on the Council than they had available seats. Eliot House, which has three open seats this semester, originally had just two candidates running. Quincy House also had two students declare candidacy by the Friday deadline, and Leverett House had just one.

“[W]e extended the deadline over the weekend for some houses who did not fill their spots,” UC Student Relations Committee Chair Yasmin Z. Sachee ’18 wrote in an email.

After the extended deadline, seven additional students declared their intention to run for a seat on the UC: four students in Eliot House, two in Leverett House, and one in Quincy House. As a result, all 42 open seats on the Council are expected to be filled after this week’s election.

Still, races in Adams, Cabot, Dudley, Kirkland, Leverett, Lowell, Mather, and Quincy House are not competitive.

The voting period began Monday, and will conclude Friday at 12 p.m. Winners will be announced by Friday evening.

—Staff writer Brian P. Yu can be reached at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @brianyu28.