Three members of the Class of 2000 will run for Class Council president for the upcoming school year, while only one will campaign for the position of vice president, according to summer Council President Paul Holzer '00.
Joseph Brown '00, Eric Buchman '00 and John Phinney '00 have entered the presidential race. Lauren Hickey '00 will be the lone candidate for vice president.
All of the candidates have had previous experience within the Council, and Holzer said he was "pleased with the turnout and with the platforms" of the four candidates.
Buchman, who has been involved with the 2000 Class Council since "day one" freshman year -- organizing such events as this summer's Family weekend and the Arts Festival last winter -- said he hopes to ensure the Council is as active as it has been in the past.
"I know in past years, talking to upperclassmen, the junior year is not taken too seriously ... but I want to keep the involvement of the Council and students just as high," Buchman said.
Brown decided to run for president in order to "enlighten and enrich the Dartmouth community" and said he hopes that he is able to "recruit more people to come up with more ideas."
Brown has been involved with Class Council since his sophomore fall, and has helped plan the Arts Festival and several other Council projects.
Current Council Vice President Phinney has worked over the summer with his friend and roommate Holzer to plan activities such as Summer Carnival and the trip to Montreal.
"Being vice president helped me to understand what being an executive officer is all about," Phinney said.
He said that after shopping around with different activities on campus, now "Council is where I want to devote my time."
Like Brown, Phinney said he wants to open the Council up to a broader range of Dartmouth students, while keeping the existing core group of Council members intact.
Holzer said he expects vigorous competition between the three presidential candidates, and mentioned that, although Hickey is currently running unopposed, write-in candidates can still enter the race.
All Council officers are required to be on-campus for two out of the three terms they will serve in their position.
While Hickey will be off campus during Fall term, she said she is excited at the prospect of holding a position on the upcoming Council.
"I've been on the Council since freshman year... but I've become more and more involved with it as I went along," she said.
As secretary of the Council this summer, Hickey got her "first taste of being an officer."
She said if she is elected vice president, she hopes to expand the Council's role in policy-making and "generating new ideas" along with the Student Assembly and the Programming Board.
Hickey termed the Programming Board a "very productive" organization and said she hopes to streamline their ideas with the Class Council's.
Hickey said she is friends with all three presidential candidates, and said she would "do fine with any one of them."
The deadline for candidate applications was last Tuesday. Campaigning for the presidential position will begin tomorrow, and an election circular with information about each candidate's platform will be distributed to the Hinman boxes on Thursday.
Speech night for each candidate will be held at Collis Center next Monday and voting will begin the following day.
According to Holzer, voting this year will take place over BlitzMail, due to "a lack of resources" in coordinating the election web site used in past Student Assembly and Class Council elections.
