Your guide to the 2023-24 Student Council elections
Louis Auxenfans, Amy Ren, and Téa Tamburo
The Midway collected responses from candidates running for Student Council positions for the all-school board and class president. Candidates were asked about their goals, experience and ability to serve as a voice for students. Responses were edited slightly for length and clarity. There are 58 students running for the 2023-24 Student Council board, and 28 all-school or class president candidates are featured here. Current Student Council members were not involved in the editing process. All placards designed by Midway Staff.
Henry Benton: Candidate for All-School president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? My main goal is to integrate the ideas of the student body with Student Council better. Other than that I will probably be spontaneous. What experiences and skills make you a good candidate for this role? In third grade I was the class representative at a public school. Still, we overcame funding issues and created a g...
Connor Booth: Candidate for All-School president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? My main goal is to bring school spirit back to Lab. I’m going to make a school dance advisory committee with both Student Council members and members of the student body, so we can improve dances. I also plan to make a student section that goes to home and away games to make sports events better. Lastly I plan on improving ...
Zoe Nathwani: Candidate for All-School president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? I'm going to run a biannual voter registration drive so that seniors and other adults have an opportunity to register to vote. I’m also creating a voter education program so students can learn how to vote, its importance, where to get election information, how to use absentee ballots, and much more. Additionally, I'm going to ...
Aditya Gupta: Candidate for All-School president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? Student Council has stagnated over the past few years. While valiant officers have come and gone, trying to make an impact, along with their motivated peers, there's little to show for it. Most of the issues presented to Student Council are solved quickly; the issue is in execution. Waiting for administrators to implement change...
James McCullen: Candidate for All-School president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? I will restore our school’s promise to all of its people by returning the Student Council to the students and ending the reign of mismanagement over our community. As long as amateur politicians run the Student Council for their benefit and not yours our school will continue to suffer. We now find ourselves at a historic cross...
Lucas Caldentey: Candidate for All-School vice president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? If elected for vice president, I would want to work toward connecting the grades more with each other, as well as creating feasible, fun and engaging programs to make school life healthier and less stressful. Connecting more with clubs to improve outreach and raise school spirit, increasing transparency with regards to what majo...
Brandon Chang: Candidate for All-School vice president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? My main goal is to bring the student body together and form an inclusive community. One idea I have is to increase the amount of available lounge space so students can hang out with their friends comfortably. I also want to diversify the food options in the cafeteria and decongest lunch lines by continuing my work with the café m...
Adam Cheema: Candidate for Cultural Union president
They did not submit the form by the Midway's deadline.
Ayush Mishra: Candidate for Cultural Union president
They did not submit the form by the Midway's deadline.
Jacob Liu: Cultural Union vice president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? My main goal is to bring back grade lock-ins, an event where students can stay overnight at school with their classmates. We actually had this as an event pre-pandemic, but since I came into high school during the pandemic I was personally not able to experience one of these events, so I want to be able to provide this experience ...
Sasha Duda: Cultural Union vice president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? One of my big new ideas to help revitalize school spirit is to reinvent spirit weeks and create better atmospheres surrounding our athletics programs. In terms of spirit weeks, I will work to have more events related to the week that can really help get the student body ready for the dance. In terms of athletics, I would work to...
Maurice Neuman: Cultural Union vice president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? After being on Student Council for a year, I think it will be extremely beneficial for all of us if we can obtain more student opinions on themes, activities, decorations, and food at dances and other events. This could be done through simple polls on Schoology, or simply by being open to suggestions when walking through the h...
Lee Rupple: Cultural Union vice president
They did not submit the form by the Midway's deadline.
Carter Chang: Candidate for treasurer
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? My main initiative as treasurer would be to host more fundraising events. Having all-school chess tournaments, soccer tournaments or trivia battles are all plausible events. These experiences would not only foster a community through student participation, but would also raise funds for areas of improvement within the sc...
Krish Khanna: Candidate for treasurer
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? As treasurer, I will work towards implementing the CASH plan, which I formulated based on discussions with Club Heads and the current treasurer. C is to clearly communicate the criteria used to evaluate funding proposals since many club heads had lack of clarity about these criteria. A will be to announce available and allocated...
Amira Moultrie: Candidate for treasurer
They did not submit the form by the Midway's deadline.
Allison Li: Candidate for secretary
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? While I serve as secretary, I want to increase student involvement with all decisions made on board as well as ease access to information. To increase clarity in the student body, I will work with the treasurer to make sure that all expenditures are carefully noted and summarized to the public. I want to work with all types of drive...
Kaavya Shriram: Candidate for secretary
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? My goal is to increase communication and fix daily issues. Let’s be realistic: nobody checks the meeting minutes on the Student Council website. Student Council needs to update their communication with students. I propose that we do that through more frequent Schoology posts and a better use of social media. It is important t...
Jiho Song: Candidate for secretary
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? Seeing as everyone is sick of outlandish goals that won't get done, I'll only promise what I can guarantee, and that is my capabilities to help Student Council flow. I already know how Student Council flows from my previous experience, so I can also ensure well-organized meeting minutes. My main goal this year is to find a way t...
Raza Zaidi: Candidate for secretary
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? As all-school secretary, my goal would be to provide transparency between students and Student Council. In our world of tests, projects and extracurricular activities, it is almost impossible to find the time to look into what Student Council is planning. Therefore, as your secretary, I will make weekly update videos, posts on so...
Rathin Shah: Candidate for Class of 2024 president
They did not submit the form by the Midway's deadline.
Mahi Shah: Candidate for Class of 2024 president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? My main goal is to bring the Senior Class together. It is our last year together, and I want to plan events for our grade, so people can enjoy their last few months with their friends and also talk to new people. Some ideas I had are senior sunrise, a winter wonderland event and a beach day. I would also want to work with the P.E...
Sam Pastor: Candidate for Class of 2024 president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? My main goal is to restore the student body's faith in a Student Council that represents them. I would do this with two keywords: visibility and transparency. I will make visible changes throughout the school and slowly but surely eradicate minor inconveniences that should have been fixed years ago, such as most bathroom stall...
Lisa Tao: Candidate for Class of 2025 president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? One of the main goals of my campaign is that I want to increase the voice of students in events, bills and schoolwide initiatives in the earlier stages of the process through inclusion in committees and planning. By getting student voice involved early and heavily, we can really make initiatives for students reflect the ideas of stud...
Antonio Del Campo: Candidate for Class of 2025 president
They did not submit the form by the Midway's deadline.
Maya Livni: Candidate for Class of 2026 president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? As a candidate for Student Council president, one of my key goals is to promote inclusivity and diversity within our school community. To achieve this, I plan to establish regular meetings every two months that bring together affinity groups, the Student Council, and the administration. These meetings will serve as a platform for ...
Sophie Li: Candidate for Class of 2026 president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? My main goal is to simply improve our school through bills and initiatives. I want everyone in the Class of 2026 to get more grade merch, which could possibly feature a design by a studnet. I would like to look into better cafeteria food, such as properly cooked pizza and maybe even installing a Farmer's Fridge. I would also like t...
Danny Aronsohn: Candidate for Class of 2026 president
What new ideas would you bring to the table? What is your main goal? If elected sophomore class president, I would advocate for more advertisements of U-High sporting events and other extracurriculars around the high school building, informing students when and where events will take place, to create more spirit around sports and our school. I would also ensure that the many voices of the sophomore ...
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