George agreed but added that he did not think the UC should be a divisive body. “I think we should be a uniting body that gets students to rally behind issues that they care about,” he said.

The other two tickets, on the other hand, didn’t believe the UC should involve itself in highly politicized issues. “We don’t want to make students feel uncomfortable in taking on a position on such issues,” Goodman said.

Raghuveer agreed and said that the UC’s role is simply to determine the student body’s stance on such issues through referendums and Q-guide surveys. “It should be telling the administration and the world that this is what the student body thinks,” she said.

Current UC vice president Pratyusha Yalamanchi ’13 closed the debate by asking students to take the initiative and vote.

“The UC will be launching a huge voter turnout campaign so make sure you get out and vote,” she said.

Voting opens on Nov. 13.

—Staff writer Michelle Denise L. Ferreol can be reached at mferreol@college.harvard.edu.