Some members of First-Year Council are raising complaints over President Greg Jackson, Jr.'s endorsement of a Student Council presidential candidate after his organization officially endorsed another candidate.
Fliers publicizing Jackson's endorsement of Noah Sullivan were distributed early this week in first years' mailboxes.
Nathaniel Stone, endorsement committee chair for First-Year Council, which endorsed Greg Scanlon, expressed concern.
"Everyone I have talked to has read it as a First-Year Council endorsement, not as a personal opinion," he said. "The wording was too vague and misleading."
The personal message from Jackson reads: "I am asking you to support me for the office of Student Council Vice President of Administration and Noah Sullivan for the office of President of Student Council. ... I urge you to stand up for our class: Visit votenoah.com."
Jackson maintains his endorsement was personal, not meant to imply that First-Year Council was endorsing Sullivan.
"I just support Noah," he said. "I am entitled to an opinion just as the committee is. The flier was not an attempt to represent the organization."
In other endorsement news, an e-mail endorsing several candidates was sent to the "artslovers" e-mail list, which is a list supported by the Student Arts Committee of Student Council.
The endorsements soon were rescinded by Council President Daisy Lundy, on the basis that neither Student Council nor its member organizations endorse candidates.
"It was an honest mistake by a committee member, not an elected member of Student Council," Lundy said.
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