GUSA Elections: “Will my district have a senator?” edition
Posted by: Geoffrey Bible in News, Vox Populi, tags: Blingee, GUSA, GUSA Elections, GUSA Senate
To help foster a (hopefully) more informed student body for this year’s Georgetown University Student Association Senate Elections, Vox invited all candidates to complete a short questionnaire regarding their candidacies. And, to our surprise, some of them even responded!
Voting began last night and will close shortly after midnight. Students are allowed to vote in their respective districts and for the at-large positions. If your district is sans a candidate, or you don’t want to vote for those listed, write-ins are allowed. (And write-in campaigns do exist.)
Earlier this week, we covered the freshmen candidates and the candidates in the other dorms, and now we’ve got the rest.
[Editor’s note: The questions for transfers differ slightly from the questions for students who were at Georgetown students.]
Alumni Square, Henle (1-48), Village A (E-H), and Townhouses
No candidates.
Henle (49-96)
Luke Devlin
No response received.
Nevils
Chris Pigot
No response received.
Village A (A-D)
Gregory Laverriere
No response received.
Off-Campus (3 seats)
Josh Mogil
1. Why are you running for the GUSA Senate?
I am running for a third term to continue making this school great for all Hoyas:-) We deserve an awesome year.
2. What initiatives do you hope to advocate for in the senate?
This year I hope to tackle 61-D noise citations and trash citations by building a campus advocacy group to educate students on their rights at Georgetown and in DC, figure out ways to roll-over or get money back for extra Leos meals (because we are getting robbed as of now), and work with the university to end the mandatory fees for “having” land phone lines in dorms (obsolete!).
3. What was the GUSA Senate’s greatest success and greatest shortcoming last year?
Greatest successes the Senate had last year were student funding reform and advising changes to the Code of Student Conduct. Clubs were really appreciative that we wanted to keep student activity money in transparent hands.
Adam Mortillaro
1. Why are you running for the GUSA Senate?
I am running for GUSA Senate to strengthen the Georgetown Community by a more efficient system of distributing the student activity fee, improving town-gown relations with our neighbors, and enhance our student services (GUTS, etc.)
2. What initiatives do you hope to advocate for in the senate?
Better funding for the GUTS bus, a renewed newspaper readership program, and a reformed student activity fee distribution system.
3.What was the GUSA Senate’s greatest success and greatest shortcoming last year?
Our greatest successes were saving the GUTS bus and reforming the budget process. Our greatest weakness was that we wasted valuable time quibbling about minor affairs such as nonbinding, meaningless resolutions rather than improving town-gown relationships.
Joe Brennan
1. Why are you running for the GUSA Senate?
I am running because I want to help foster a more robust off-campus community.
2. Were you the president of your high school studentgovernment?
No.
3. In your first few weeks on campus, what is your biggest concern/complaint about Georgetown that you would like to change by being in the senate?
I want work to expand GUTS service routes and times, install more bike racks, and make it possible for commuter students to park on campus. I also want to work with GUSA to negotiate for Metro fare discounts and more extensive Metro bus routes to/from the Georgetown campus.
Sandy Glassberg
No response received.
At-Large (4 seats)
Marissa Brogger
1. Why are you running for the GUSA Senate?
I am running for the GUSA Senate in the hopes that, if elected, I will be able to help greater connect the GUSA Senate to its constituency- the students. When I told most of my friends I was running for GUSA Senate, none of them really knew what it was or what exactly the Senate did. I believe this is true for a majority of Georgetown students, and I also think that that poses a problem.
2. What initiatives do you hope to advocate for in the senate?
As Senator At Large, I hope to sit on both the Student Life and the Outreach and Fundraising Committees where I am interested in making the GUSA Senate a more broadly student -responsive and student -accountable body. This will include more “Open Houses” with Senators and their constituents and working to establish more accessible lines of communication and collaboration between senators and student constituents.
3. What was the GUSA Senate’s greatest success and greatest shortcoming last year?
(No response received.)
Michael Barclay, Timothy Carey, Ben Bold
No response received.
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My answers to the survey, since I’m a write in candidate and didn’t get it sent to me:
1. Why are you running for the GUSA Senate?
I want to be the very best bro there ever was (http://georgetownvoice.com/2010/09/02/saxa-politica-gusa-needs-perspectives/)
2. What initiatives do you hope to advocate for in the senate?
Aside from ending it, you mean? How about eliminating the stipend for the GUSA President/VP? What other student leader gets paid?
3. What was the GUSA Senate’s greatest success and greatest shortcoming last year?
Greatest success- Unlike past years, they didn’t have to have a second or third or fourth or fifth election redo.
Greatest weakness- People didn’t dress up enough for meetings. If I’m elected, I vow to wear a full tuxedo to every meeting. After all, looking good is half the battle in GUSA!
4. What initiatives do you hope to advocate for in the senate?
Mandatory Dress Code at GUSA meetings. Beginning every meeting with an homage to Justin Bieber (inspiration is the other half of the battle! And what better inspiration is there than J Biebs?). As the Off Campus representative, after the meetings are adjouned, we should go knock on the doors of our Burleith neighbors and sing the “mr rodgers neighborhood” theme to make them be friends with us.
And finally, dissolve GUSA…. other than the senators, who thinks GUSA is actually important? How would your Gtown experience be different without GUSA? Except for the GUSA Summer Fellows, of course… that’s a cool idea.
5. Were you the president of your high school studentgovernment?
Ewww.
6. In your first few weeks on campus, what is your biggest concern/complaint about Georgetown that you would like to change by being in the senate?
WE NEED A BIGGER FOOTBALL STADIUM! It’s total BS that not everyone can go watch our football team in action. GUSA needs to build a new stadium. If I’m elected, consider it done, bro.
If you’re an off campus resident, WRITE IN “BILL NELSON” FOR GUSA SENATE, BRO! I’ll totally love you forever.
WRITE IN BILL NELSON FOR OFF CAMPUS REP!
I ENDORSE BILL NELSON FOR GUSA SENATE OFF-CAMPUS REP. IT’S MORNING IN AMERICA, BRO.
I TOO ENDORSE BILL NELSON FOR GUSA SENATE. DO NOT VOTE FOR BILL BECAUSE IT IS EASY, VOTE FOR HIM BECAUSE IT IS HARD.
THAT MAKES THREE OF US. FOUR SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO, I TOO WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR BILL NELSON. VOTE FOR BILL, SO THAT THIS NATION WILL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH.
Mogil needs to figure out that there are bigger issues facing Georgetown than meal plans at Leo’s. He’s been harping on this for 4 years now. It was fine freshman year because nobody had a good grasp of the bigger picture. But…
As a senior?
Really?
The best idea he can come up with is to give students money back if they don’t budget out how often they need to eat in order to maximize their meal plans? If it’s taken him 3 years to come up with this gem (which, by the way, will absolutely never happen, even if it were worth looking into) there’s no need to give him a 4th.
If your friends read Vox and The Hoya more then they would know what GUSA did last year…
Yes Marissa, clearly if your friends don’t know anything about GUSA, they must be uninformed idiots. This is exactly the attitude about GUSA that needs to change.
@Moose/Reagan/JFK/Lincoln: Thanks, bro-skis!
oh 4 cring out lowd is aa nurd. i is a wiiur. yoo are nuthin but a bullshugar. i ham much of a winner. poopoopoopoopoop
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