Anger voiced concern that the lack of publicitywould "limit the number of people who run for U.C.to those who are already on [the council] or tothose who have friends on it."

But Fine said the council has not been visibleon campus because it went through many proceduresand "wasted a lot of days" trying to choosesomeone to succeed Hanselman as election chair.

Treasurer Carey W. Gabay '94, who has declaredthat he will run for chair this year, saidyesterday that he approached Peter S. Cahn '96with an opportunity to join a "triumvirate,"proposed by Epps to oversee the election.

Cahn, who was a council member last year buthas decided not to run for re-election, would havejoined former Council chair Harvard Law Schoolfirst-year student David A. Aronberg '93 and amember of the Cambridge Board of Elections tosupervise the election.

Cahn confirmed yesterday that he was asked tojoin this group, but he declined because thesituation "smacked of scandal."

"This plan sounded wrong, evenunconstitutional," Cahn said. "I felt theexecutives who approached me did so out of adistrust of Mike Beys--that they wanted to somehowcounteract him, to keep him in line. I certainlydidn't want to be a part of that."

Cahn offered his perception that Beys "didn'twant anyone around who would check his power, butI was the person they settled on who he opposedthe least."

A substitute for Cahn was never proposedbecause the plan never took effect, Aronberg said.

"When I was approached I told the council thatI would be glad to help them out with this,"Aronberg said. "But I've had a hard time trying tofind out from anyone what's going on, which isstrange, especially since I'm supposedly running[the election]."

A council member who asked to remain anonymoustold The Crimson that Beys and Fine had heldseveral unpublicized executive meetings in recentdays in their attempts to maintain an unofficialhold over the election procedure.

One executive charges that Monday night'smeeting to decide who would run the election wasdeliberately announced late so that almost no-onecould attend.

McKay confirmed that executive's allegation. "Iheard that there was a meeting Monday," he said."But I wasn't able to make it."

Residential committee Chair Jennifer W. Grove'94 said there was another executive councilmeeting Wednesday night of last week, "but I wasnot invited to it. And I did think that wasunusual."

"No-one has told me anything," she added. "Butthe last thing I heard was that Mike Beys wasrunning the election."

McKay concurred that, as far as he knew, "Mikeand Randy were supposed to take care of it. Idon't know if that's constitutional or not."