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SG filing begins

Published: Sunday, February 21, 2010

Updated: Sunday, February 21, 2010 20:02

On Feb. 15, students whooshed to submit election packets and began campaigning to represent UTD’s student body in the next Student Government (SG). The deadline for filing is noon on March 4.

Each candidate must file a packet, available in the Student Life Office in the Student Union, along with a refundable fee of $50 and $75 to run for senator and president or vice president, respectively.

Candidates can begin campaigning once the elections board chair or SG advisor has approved their campaign materials.

Online and on-campus voting begins March 8 and ends at 9 p.m. March 10.

Current students may vote from a link available at www.utdallas.edu/student/sg.

Student Affairs Web Developer Cassini Nazir said that alpha and beta testing of the online voting system will be conducted the last week of February.

President, vice president and senators may campaign together on a ticket, but each candidate is voted on individually.

As of press time, the offices of president and vice president are a face-off between two tickets: The Student Allies and Connect 2.

Connect 2 represents the duo neuroscience sophomore Bryan Thompson for president and art & performance sophomore Brittany Sharkey for vice president.

“Our platform can be summed up in the word ‘connection,’” Thompson said.

Thompson said their platform aims at connecting the students of UTD with the administration and the community of Richardson at large.

Student Allies is a coalition of senate candidates led by the president and vice president candidacies of political science junior Grace Bielawski and political science senior Dina Shahroki, respectively.

“The three key words to our platform are responsive, effective and proactive,” Bielawski said.

Bielawski said that taking input from students and implementing both effective and long-term changes is the focus of the Student Allies platform.

The election sign up sheet is currently running lean, with not enough candidates running to fill all available senate seats. Should the senate races not fill up, appointments will be made when the new SG convenes in May.

For more information, visit www.utdallas.edu/student/sg.

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4 comments

Diana Kao
Fri Mar 19 2010 16:06
Joe the Plumber -

You make a good point about the SG website! I am going to contact the designer of the student allies website to work with our tech chair and see what he can do for our site. Thanks for the idea!

-diana.
SG President
diana.kao@student.utdallas.edu

Sokritees
Tue Mar 2 2010 19:01
obviously the allied forces are correct duuuuuuuh. plus it also says the right dates in this article that you commented on. numbskull. connect 2 got the voting dates wrong. probably they were drinking some of brittney's smoothie at the time.
CometDude89
Mon Mar 1 2010 23:07
Flyer from Student Allies says voting is March 8-10, flyer from Connect2 says voting is March 8-12. What gives and who is right? Also, mad props to Kyle Nilson for standing up for students. I will be writing you in for a Senate seat. In one swoop he is already a more effective advocate for students than our current SG has been all year.
Joe the Plumber
Mon Feb 22 2010 18:04
Has anyone else seen the Student Allies website? Holy crap. It looks better than the actual Student Government site. http://studentallies.org/

Also, I wanted to say that I'm a little bit underwhelmed that the Mercury chose to print a verb and three adjectives to describe the difference between the two parties. How am I supposed to know who to vote for based on "connection" versus "responsive, effective and proactive?" A platform is supposed to be a series of issues that candidates are campaigning on, not a handful of bland descriptors.

The Student Allies site has eighteen specific bullet point objectives broken down by issue type. I haven't seen anything from Mr. Thompson and Ms. Sharkey yet, but I'm sure they have goals as well outside of just "connection." I know that the Mercury has limited space and that filing just started last week, but it's too bad they couldn't fit more substance into their news coverage.







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