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Race for Union presidency begins
by Miranda Neubauer
Senior Writer
News | 3/25/08
Posted online at 1:58 AM EST on 3/25/08
While the entire country is following the 2008 presidential race, Brandeis is getting ready to pick its own Student Union president.
Two current Union officials and two Union outsiders have announced their candidacies for Student Union president, with the first round of elections to open next Sunday.
Director of Union Affairs Jason Gray '10 and Assistant Treasurer Justin Kang '09 are the current Union officials vying for the position, while Daniel Baron '09 and Frank Golub '10 are also running. Other positions that are open in the first round include Union vice president, Union secretary and Finance Board members.
Student Union President Shreeya Sinha '09 said she is not running again because after three years in the Student Union, she said she wants to apply what she learned by taking advantage of an opportunity to study abroad at the London School of Economics and work for the British government.
"I think that both Justin Kang and Jason Gray are excellent candidates," she said.
"I'm running for president because I want to transform the Student Union," Gray said, expressing his frustration with the its current state.
As president, he said, he wants to lead a team that is dedicated to a mentality of working for students by meeting with them one-on-one, as he had the previous year. He said he would seek student input for plans to renovate the Usdan Student Center, advocate for longer dining hours by building on the relationships he has developed with administrators, and create a more accessible Union Web site.
Gray said he would meet with club leaders before enacting new policies that affect clubs. He said he intended to change an attitude he sensed among club leaders that "they feel like they're in conflict with the Student Union." Gray will be holding an open platform meeting in Upper Usdan today at 9:30 p.m.
Kang pointed to his "unconventional route" at Brandeis as a member of student-run newspaper The Hoot, secretary of the Korean Student Association, treasurer for Students for Environmental Action and as assistant treasurer of the Union.
Two current Union officials and two Union outsiders have announced their candidacies for Student Union president, with the first round of elections to open next Sunday.
Director of Union Affairs Jason Gray '10 and Assistant Treasurer Justin Kang '09 are the current Union officials vying for the position, while Daniel Baron '09 and Frank Golub '10 are also running. Other positions that are open in the first round include Union vice president, Union secretary and Finance Board members.
Student Union President Shreeya Sinha '09 said she is not running again because after three years in the Student Union, she said she wants to apply what she learned by taking advantage of an opportunity to study abroad at the London School of Economics and work for the British government.
"I think that both Justin Kang and Jason Gray are excellent candidates," she said.
"I'm running for president because I want to transform the Student Union," Gray said, expressing his frustration with the its current state.
As president, he said, he wants to lead a team that is dedicated to a mentality of working for students by meeting with them one-on-one, as he had the previous year. He said he would seek student input for plans to renovate the Usdan Student Center, advocate for longer dining hours by building on the relationships he has developed with administrators, and create a more accessible Union Web site.
Gray said he would meet with club leaders before enacting new policies that affect clubs. He said he intended to change an attitude he sensed among club leaders that "they feel like they're in conflict with the Student Union." Gray will be holding an open platform meeting in Upper Usdan today at 9:30 p.m.
Kang pointed to his "unconventional route" at Brandeis as a member of student-run newspaper The Hoot, secretary of the Korean Student Association, treasurer for Students for Environmental Action and as assistant treasurer of the Union.
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Daniel Baron
posted 3/25/08 @ 4:58 AM EST
The Justice has done a disservice by not giving its readers a fair look at the candidates, with its bias towards those with Union experience and a general dearth of information on all candidates, including those for which it hold this bias. (Continued…)
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