Anjalee C. Davis '96 has spent only one semester at Harvard, but she has already become a household name on campus.

A former member of the Undergraduate Council who resigned in February to take a semester off, Davis has risen to fame by organizing the petition effort that forced last week's referendum on the council's recent $10 term bill fee hike.

Campus politics are nothing new to Davis, who was a member of the student transferring to Harvard last semester. By her second month here, Davis had been elected co-president of her entryway in North House, a member of the council and had run for council president and for chair of a committee.

Since resigning, Davis has devoted a substantial part of her time to fighting for a referendum on five issues she sees as essential to council reform.

Davis' original petition called for a campus-wide vote on the proposed fee hike, the ability to waive the council fee easily, the distribution of unspent council funds to house committees, popular election of council executives and semiannual general elections.

She says these last two items are her most important issues.

"This is not about a term bill hike," Davis says. "This is about whether we can reform our student government."

Her vision of student government comes from her experiences at Wellesley College, where she spent two years before transferring to Harvard in the fall.

Davis says she served for a year as contact senator for her house and was elected house president in her sophomore year.

At Wellesley, she says, student government is "responsive, accountable and a place where students can come and speak."

Davis says when she arrived at

Harvard, she was disappointed by the reputationand structure of the council.

"I was shocked when I got to Harvard," shesays. "I expected a student government that dealtwith real issues on campus."

Davis proceeded to lead a relentless campaignfor the council, which included several doordrops,postering and even direct mailing during thethree-day election to students who hadn't yetvoted, according to North House residents.

She ran on a platform advocating communicationbetween house delegates and constituents, andedged former council Secretary Randall A. Fine '96for the last of five seats in North House.

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