The number of students casting ballots in last month’s USG election, the highest-turnout contest since before the pandemic, more than doubled from last year.
Guo and Horowitz spoke to the Maroon about the election cycle, their plans for next year, and how they hope to combat the perception that USG is ineffective.
College Council approved allocations of USG’s $2.1 million budget to committees and other arms of USG and heard funding appeals from the Society for International Relations, Charles River Economics Lab, and MECHA.
CORE Collective candidates won every race in the highest-turnout USG election in recent years, winning all five cabinet seats by margins of over 200 votes.
USG’s Elections & Rules Committee can request the names of students behind Sidechat posts that may violate its negative speech policy for candidates—and has already done so this election cycle.
A policy informing all Undergraduate Student Government committee members and chairs to redirect media requests to the Vice President of Student Organizations or other members of the cabinet was revoked after being published in error, but the substance of the directive remains.
USG election updates and information will now be provided to all potential candidates at the start of upcoming elections, regardless of their number of qualifying signatures.
