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College Council Selects Final 2022 Representative in Tiebreaker Vote

The tiebreaker was held to decide which of two write-in candidates will fill the seat left vacant by third-year Zebeeb Nuguse’s election as College Council chair.

By Matthew Lee, Co-Editor-in-Chief

October 20, 2020

Courtesy of Regenstein Special Collections

Harper’s book stacks.

Allen Abbott will serve as the Class of 2022’s fourth College Council representative following a tiebreaker vote held on Tuesday evening.

College Council’s members voted 11–2 to elect Abbott in Tuesday’s vote. The election followed a debate in which he and rival candidate Evita Duffy made the case for their candidacies before College Council and a period of deliberation by College Council.

Abbott stressed his status as a college council outsider in his speech.

“I’d be in a unique position to engage with students who aren’t engaged in the first place with College Council,” Abbott said.

The tiebreaker vote was prompted by a vacancy among the Class of 2022’s College Council representatives following the election of third-year Zebeeb Nuguse as chair. Abbott and Duffy each received two write-in ballots, forcing the College Council to vote in a tiebreaker.

Abbott will join current College Council members Dinesh Das Gupta, John Fuentes, and Harry Gardner as the Class of 2022’s representatives for the 2020–21 school year.

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