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Good morning. It’s sixth week, and Student Government voting starts today.
Student Government (SG) candidates gathered Thursday night for a debate ahead of school-wide elections, which begin today and run through Wednesday.
- Kyle Shishkin, running for SG president on the Reform slate, stressed relations with the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) as a top priority. If elected, he plans to improve the security alert system and allocate more money to mental health initiatives.
- “We want to work with UCPD, not against it and trying to obstruct it, in order to make sure that UCPD can function well and also be better for students and community members in the local area,” Shishkin said.
- Jahne Brown, leading the CARE (Community, Amplify, Represent, Empower) slate, said CARE would focus on UCPD’s transparency and empower students to have safe interactions with the police force.
- Brown promised to institute “know your rights” training—especially for people of color, students of color—on campus, but also in the community, so we can have safe interactions.”
- The competing slates also discussed their plans for Greek life, student representation on SG, and executive compensation, an initiative to pay members of the SG executive slate for their work.
Third-year Ridgley Knapp is running to be the undergraduate liaison to the Board of Trustees, on on a two-pronged platform of promoting transparency in dealings with the Board of Trustees and increasing funding to RSOs that “pick up the slack” when dealing with University services like student counseling.
First-year Harry Gardner is running to be a Class of 2022 representative, and hopes to increase funding for identity and mental health–related RSOs.
Third-year Rachel Abrams, currently a Class of 2020 representative, is running for Community Government Liaison. Abrams plans to connect community members and leaders in Woodlawn to Student Government representatives in order to “brainstorm” solutions to gentrification.
Voting will be conducted through Blueprint, and will be open from 10:00 a.m. Monday, May 6, through 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8.
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In Viewpoints
Editor Meera Santhanam writes in:
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In Arts
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In Sports
Editor Brinda Rao writes in:
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Editor Austin Christhilf writes in:
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