Carly Bonnet '19, Susan Liu '19, Chelsea Ng '19, Eric Sklanka '19 and Christopher Umanzor '19 have been elected to the class council for the Class of 2019.
According to Undergraduate Student Government chief elections manager Grant Golub ’17, Umanzor received 245 votes, Ng received 220 votes, Sklanka received 198 votes, Liu received 193 votes and Bonnet received 166 votes. Sixteen candidates in total ran for the five positions, and 538 freshmen cast their votes in the election, Golub added.
Golub is a former staff writer and former senior copy editor for The Daily Princetonian.
The newly elected officers all said they would like to make themselves more accessible to the members of the Class of 2019.
Umanzor and Ng said that they would like to set up committees dedicated to planning events and discussing issues as well as ways to improve the freshman experience which anyone can join.
“We would have social committees meet with class officers and give their ideas, discuss their problems, help us better understand the entire class because it is going to be difficult to meet everyone,” Umanzor said.
“One of my ideas is to create a council or committee called to increase communication and a monthly forum for people to gather together to express their ideas,” Ng added, elaborating on the same idea.
The officers also explained that they would like to organize activities and events to bring the freshman class together.
“One of the things that we can do is set up a few quick USG activities to be done with very low commitment, just maybe once a week, where the whole class can come together and give back to the community,” Umanzor said. “We can provide low-income students with school supplies or make bagged lunches and donate them to food shelters.”
Umanzor is a news contributor for the 'Prince'.
Other officers’ ideas included outings and events that would involve the entire class coming together. Ng suggested a shopping week, explaining that it would be like restaurant week, but on Nassau Street.
Liu said that she would like to have a “freshman sunrise.”
“I think it’d be really cute if we all walked down to the stadium in our pajamas and just watched the sunrise together because it would symbolize the beginning of our four years,” she explained.
Sklanka said he would like to see multiple advisee groups getting together for study breaks as well as going on outings to places such as Six Flags Great Adventure.
“I would like to see the increased engagement of our study breaks not only within our own 'zee groups or res colleges but bringing multiple 'zee groups together and taking them on a field trip, and having a more cohesive event, not only separated by 'zee groups but more of an amalgamation of multiple 'zee groups together. I myself prefer to be in multiple groups and I think it’s a great way to branch out and be part of multiple things on campus,” he said.
Bonnet said she had a more long-term idea, inspired by the Class of 2016’s relationship with their “Grandparent Class” of 1966. She noted that the seniors have had multiple events with their Grandparent Class and have grown close with them.
“They’ve gotten jobs and internships, and most importantly friendships, so I was thinking that’d be something really cool we could do with the Class of 1969,” she said.
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