The Justice

Current Student Union President Jason Gray '10 will not run for a second term in the upcoming Union elections and will not hold an official role in the Union after a new Union president is elected next month, he said.

Gray announced his decision tnot to run for president at the beginning of last Sunday's Senate meeting. Elections for this year's Union President will occur in early April.

"I think that it is important every year to continue to have fresh leadership. I think that I have done my service to the community and that it is time for someone else to be in charge," Gray said in an interview with the Justice.

Although he will not have an official role in the Union, Gray told senators at the meeting that "while my service as the Union president will soon be over, I will still be here as a mentor and as a support to assist the Union and our student body in any way that I can."

Gray won the Union elections last April with 693 votes, defeating Justin Kang '09. Gray was the former director of Union affairs before he was elected as Union president.

Gray told senators at the meeting that he remembered campaigning to transform the Union's relationship with students and administrators while advocating improvements to campus life.

Gray explained to the Justice that the culture of the Union has changed so "that it is more about working for students and less about a pretend government club." He continued that the Union's relationship with the administrators "is one of mutual respect, … and it hasn't always been like that in the past."

In an interview with the Justice, Gray listed the creation of the Office of Student Rights and Advocacy, the pursuit to integrate of the Student Bill of Rights into The Rights and Responsibilities Hanbook and the fundraisers held for a Springfield church and Hurricane Katrina victims as some of the Union's main accomplishments.

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