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Student Senate candidate filing numbers down but not out @LALARISSAJ
While 54 candidates are competing for the 50 student senate seats, more than a third of the seats don’t have a candidate. Candidates are separated by c o l l e g e , a n d 35 o f the filed students are compet ing for 20 available seats in the College of A r t s a nd S c ie nc e s a nd D a rl a Moore School of Business. Six colleges have no one running at all. “ I d e f i n it e l y f e e l conf ident in t he amount of promotion that we had for f i l i n g ,” E l e c t i o n s Com m is sioner Er i n Brown said. “It’s just nat ural t hat some of t he more popu lated colleges are more heavily integrated with w h at ’s g o i n g o n i n Student Government.” Last year’s election saw record senate ca nd idac y nu mbers,
with 88 total c a nd id at e s a nd ju st s i x s e at s w it ho u t a c a nd id at e r u n n i n g. The nu mbers t h is year are more more in line w it h t hose seen 2013-2016. Second-year student Azalfa Lateef is one of the nine senators who f iled for re-election. She’s c u r re nt l y t he vice chairman of the academic committee and hopes to be senate pro tempore next year. “I want them to have a strong leader coming in,” Lateef said. She’ll be able to help new senators with the bill w r it i ng a nd f i l i ng process because of her prev ious year in t he senate. While filing nu mb er s a re dow n , t hat shou ld n’t cause any permanent problems for the new senate. St udents can st il l f ile as w r ite-i n candidates for the open seats, and any seats left vacant after elections
will be filled through a n i nt er n a l pro c e s s w it h i n t he senate. Some of the candidates currently running for the Arts and Sciences and DMSB seats who initially lost could end up serving as “at large” senators. It’s t y pical for the senate to have seat s become empt y t hroughout t he year due to resig nat ions, and there’s never any problem filling those s e at s , a c c or d i n g t o Brown. A s to why t here are fewer candidates, Lateef said that more st udent s a re hopi ng for executive positions instead of running for senate. She said that se ver a l memb er s of Freshman Council told her they were holding out for those positions. A nother senator confi rmed that he was leaving senate to help out on a n exec ut ive c a m p a i g n w it h t h e goal of ending up on cabinet.
Student Senate Candidate Filings
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Graphic by Larissa Johnson