The USG announced candidates for the upcoming spring elections at its Senate meeting on Sunday night. Candidates for the majority of class government positions are running unopposed.
Campaigning for class government, U-Council and USG social chair positions begins today at noon.
For the Class of 2012, class president Lindy Li ’12 and vice president Nick Pugliese ’12 are running unopposed as incumbents. Kameron Knab ’12 and John Monagle ’12 are running for treasurer, and current U-Councilor Tulio Alvarez Burgos ’12 is running for social chair.
Current 2012 secretary Angela Groves ’12 is not running again, and no one has applied to fill her place. Li said that the situation is “in flux” and that the USG may re-advertise the position. USG president Michael Yaroshefsky ’12 said the group would abide by the constitution for class governments, specifically the section regarding removing candidates. This section provides for the public solicitation of applications, and a three-fourths vote of the new officers for appointment of a candidate.
For the Class of 2014, president Luchi Mmegwa and social chair Andrea Baglioni are running as incumbents. Challenging vice president Michael Moses for his position are Jason Adleberg and Devon Barrett. Adleberg is a former staff writer for The Daily Princetonian.
Incumbent treasurer Sophia Deng ’14 is running against Adam Kinalski ’14. For secretary, incumbent Mary D’Onofrio ’14 is running against Sydney Krueger ’14.
All five officers for the Class of 2013 — president Zach Beecher, vice president Stefan Kende, treasurer Hanna Tian, secretary Kendra Simon and social chair Jamie Joseph — are running unopposed.
Competing for USG social chair are Kiran Gollakota ’13 and Benedict Wagstaff ’14. Gollakota is also an executive editor for sports for The Daily Princetonian.
Sixteen students are running for the position of U-Councilor: Lily Alberts ’13, Elektra Alivisatos ’14, Samantha Batel ’13, Ben Chan ’13, Bernice Fokum ’14, Cameron Henneberg ’14, USG Senior Executive Secretary Haebin Kim ’13, incumbent Steven Lindsay ’12, Kevin McKee ’14, incumbent Merik Mulcahy ’13, incumbent Katlin Poladian ’12, Storm Portner ’14, incumbent Alexander Pretko ’12, incumbent Amy Ridgeway ’12, Benjamin Wainwright ’14 and incumbent Sara Wiley ’13.
Alberts is also a columnist for the ‘Prince’ and Ridgeway is a former member of the Copy staff.
At the meeting, the USG Senate also unanimously approved the allocation of $1,448 to charter two buses for a free trip for 110 students to Seaside Heights, N.J., on April 23.
In addition, the USG plans to issue its first annual report this morning that outlines the group’s 2010 projects — both successful and tabled.
“Our goal first and foremost in this report is to be as honest as possible,” said Aditya Rajagopalan ’13, the Undergraduate Life Committee chair who compiled the 44-page report and provided a preview at the meeting.
The group also outlined challenges involved in its “staplers and hole punchers project,” which aims to provide print clusters with office supplies. Rajagopalan, a former member of the ‘Prince’ editorial board, said that cluster printers in upperclass dorms will soon be supplied with staplers and hole punchers and the USG is working to add them to underclass dorm cluster printers as well.
Jack Ching ’13 of the Student Groups Recognition Committee announced that the USG approved a new student group, the Princeton Gap Year Network. The group said it aims to communicate with incoming freshmen about both the University’s bridge year program and taking a gap year of their own, as well as to provide resources and mentorship once those students arrive on campus.
The USG Senate also unanimously approved $3,000 of funding — mostly for pizza — for the Dodgeball Tournament, slated for April 21. The projects board also allocated $2,750 for a lecture called East Meets West on April 19 and $2,275 for the Asian Night Market on April 15.
Also at the meeting, several members of the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership summarized major points from the group’s report that was released last month.
“We did find that there were some interesting differences between the ways most Princeton men and Princeton women approach their college years,” committee chair and professor Nannerl Keohane said at the meeting as she introduced the report.
Keohane also addressed criticism that the majority of the steering committee members were women.
“I can assure you that the men on the committee spoke up regularly and gave good thoughts,” she said. “It certainly didn’t feel like we would have had a different conversation if we had 50-50 [representation],” she added.
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