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Volume 6 Election Issue
Volume 6 Election Issue
Volume 6 Election Issue
SU SENIOR CAUCUS
Andrew Kim and Vivian Luu
With a sense of determination, juniors An- Specifically for the senior class, Kim and
drew Kim and Vivian Luu are looking to Luu want to make the first half of senior year go
“sweep” their way to Senior Caucus victory by quickly. “Fall term senior year is just an ex-
this Wednesday. tension of junior year” said Luu. To help sen-
Kim is currently the Vice-President for the iors, Kim and Luu propose a series of College
Junior class, as well as SING! Hip-Hop Direc- Crash Courses to help students learn what’s
tor and Building with Books Vice President of expected of them in concern to the college proc-
Fundraising. Luu has no previous SU experi-
ence, but according to the candidates, that KIM / LUU continues on page 4
should not be an issue. Being involved for the
SU PRESIDENT ENODRSEMENT SU in so long can limit your ideas, according to
continued from page 1 Kim. They would be more likely to try some-
thing out of the box then sticking to the same
ideas that the SU currently has.
gets the student body the information they need in a One of the ideas the group has is the “Clean
clear and concise form and quickly. Sweep Committee”. One of the issues that the
Based on this, The Stuyvesant Standard en- Student Union deals with is a lack of respect
dorses Charubhumi and Solimano for President and from the administration. They suggest that this
Vice President of the Student Union. We feel that can be partly attributed to the poor state of the
these two will work harder on improving communica- hallways, particularly the third floor atrium and
tion between the Student Union and the Stuyvesant the fifth floor by the lunchroom. The commit-
community as well as fostering a more involved stu- tee’s responsibility would be self-explanatory.
dent body. We hope that they will devote a majority The goal is to improve the overall cleanliness
of their funding and attention to communicating with of the school while improving student relations
and serving the student body as a whole. with the administration.
4 THE STUYVESANT STANDARD June 3, 2007—VOL. 6, SPECIAL Junior Caucus
KIM / LUU
Michelle Lee and Lauren Gonzalez continued from page 3
SU JUNIOR CAUCUS
Phillip Kim and Daniel Goldstern and
Jenny Han William Oh
The plan of Daniel Goldstern ence. Oh said, “We’ve been stu-
and William Oh is to have a great dents, too”
Both Phillip Kim and class. It was being planned for this Junior year, mainly by having Goldstern and Oh plan to rep-
Jenny Han agree that their biggest year, but there was no available more events. Oh said, “We want to resent their class well. Goldstern
asset in their candidacy for Junior gym time. Kim says that with his have more of these events. It’s a said, “[We want] a balance be-
Caucus is their experience. Kim is experience, he knows what events stressful school. We want to help.” tween what we have in mind and
currently the Sophomore Caucus are possible and what events Both members of the team what students have in mind.”
Vice President, as well as the aren’t. That’s why they have cho- lack Student Union (SU) experi- Overall, they feel that only a poor
Freshman Vice President last year. sen not to make any unrealistic ence. However, they have talked president and vice president would
He is joined by Jenny Han, who is promises. with members of the SU to get an overlook the desires of their class.
a current member of the Sopho- For communicating with idea of what they need to do. They They want to have a representative
more Advisory Council and was a the Junior class, a website specifi- also feel there is an advantage to from each homeroom and to create
member of the Freshman Advisory cally for the class of 2009 would their inexperience. Goldstern said, a class website.
Council last year. Han said about be created. It would allow the class “Experience is a beneficial thing at The team plans to hold com-
Kim “He really got things done.” to give suggestions to Kim and times. Experience can be deceiv- edy nights, bowling nights, college
Kim said the reason he Han, as well as ways to contact ing. We might have an idea that trips, more dances, and other not
wanted to run for Junior President both of them. They also plan on [would] get under looked [by ex- specified in school activities. To
is that he enjoyed his experience as openly advertising for the Junior perience SU members].” They do this they will, “Plan ahead. Try
vice president and wanted to “step Advisory Council, making sure team also feel that being students to get trips planned as early as pos-
it up” by becoming president. Ac- they get a diverse opinion of the gives them their greatest experi- sible,” said Goldstern.
cording to Kim and Han, the most entire Junior class.
important aspect of the Junior Cau- They both agree that the
cus revolves around three specific reason why few people voted in
events: Junior Comedy Night, Jun- the primaries is because they had
ior Prom, and the College Trips. no idea Tuesday was the election.
Kim already has experience plan- Kim and Han both said that even
ning Comedy Night, as he helped their closest friends forgot that
run this year’s first Soph-Frosh Tuesday was the primary. Another
Comedy night, as well as planning reason they say that voter turnout
both Soph-Frosh semi-formals. is low is that too many people are
Their ideas are not limited indifferent. As Han says “Voting is
to those three events, however. what selects your future leaders.”
They would like to create a Junior Both Kim and Han are hoping to
DVD filled with their memories get selected Wednesday.
from the year. Also on their to-do
list is a Basketball Tournament in
conjunction with the sophomore