Candidates for Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Association can begin campaigning after spring break for elections less than a month away.
Undergraduate Student Government Downtown announced the names of the fourteen students who would be running for office in USGD, including two presidential tickets and eight senate hopefuls, in a Monday news release.
USGD Director of Administration and journalism senior Rudy Rivas said he and other members of USGD have worked hard to ensure that anyone who wanted to run for an office could.
“We’ve definitely had a better turnout for this campaign season,” Rivas said.
USGD President Joseph Grossman is running for his same position with current Vice President of Services David Bakardjiev campaigning for vice president of policy. Leighana Moldrem completes the ticket as vice president of services.
The second ticket has Erika Green as president, Travis Moore as vice president of services and Sally Bravo as vice president of policy.
A debate between the two presidential candidates will be held at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication’s First Amendment Forum March 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Five prospective senators applied for two seats from the College of Public Programs, including current senators and criminal justice juniors Joey Amonett and Cecilio Porras.
Two other sitting senators, journalism freshman Malcolm Brinkley and kinesiology freshman Eneida Shqalsi, also applied to represent their respective colleges.
The new executive board will appoint other senators to vacant seats following elections.
Derrik Hester, the Tempe campus elections director, said Tempe’s USG elections code prohibits him from releasing any names until campaign season begins March 26.
He said they received one executive ticket and 11 applications for college senators. Tempe USG Senate seats are allocated according to enrollment in each college.
At press time, USG West had not finished verifying its list of candidates. USGW Chief of Staff David Anaya said he hoped to be able to release the names Tuesday.
Representatives from USG Polytechnic and GPSA could not be reached for comment.
Elections will take place April 10 and 11 for all four campuses online through myASU.
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