Eight Earn Council Positions by Default

Although no student has yet cast a ballot, eight new members of next year's Student Council have already won their seats by default, the Council elections committee disclosed yesterday. The deadline for all nominating petitions was last Wednesday.

In the forthcoming elections, each House will choose a sophomore and a junior class representative. Since there are now four unopposed nominees for each class, every resident House has one Council position filled. Dudley is the only House where both seats are contested.

Of the 18 seats at stake, unopposed junior representatives were elected in Dunster, Eliot, Lowell and Quincy Houses. Sophomores won by default in Adams, Kirkland, Leverett, and Winthrop.

The Kirkland House junior representative contest is the only one in which more than two candidates are running.

Apathy, the Council's "poor reputation from previous years," and "fear of too much work" were cited by Council officials as possible reasons for the small number of petitions turned in. Although the Council's past election records are nuclear, one member admitted that this may be "one of our worst showing in recent years."