This year's Assembly Presidential campaign has been more intense than any I have witnessed at Dartmouth.
With three determined candidates from within the Assembly, a vocal outsider, and a "Novack Party" representative, it looks as though this may come down to the very last vote. This is precisely why is it essential that you cast your vote for me.
While there are other candidates with Assembly experience, none of my opponents have proven themselves as Assembly leaders.
Everyone seems to be conveying the same message about bringing "unity" to the campus and "student voice" to Student Assembly.
Have Jim, Ralph and Wolkoff forgotten that this is the same story we heard during elections last year, the year before that, and so on?
I want you to be convinced by my actions, not by my promises. As Student Body Vice President my sophomore year I helped negotiate the re-instatement of the swim team, and I helped carry out the Dormitory Improvement Initiative.
Even now, while I am busy campaigning, I am coordinating a new peer advising program, I am contacting Greek organizations to plan an info session for 07s, and I am meeting with administrators to discuss the expansion of Kresge gym and the purchase of additional equipment.
I hope that my actions speak for themselves.
Next year I will focus on academics.
We will demand institution-wide course evaluations so that all professors are held accountable for their teaching.
Booklists and course syllabi will be online on Blackboard, and we will help initiate the creation of an improved major and pre-major advising system.
I will focus on student service issues. We will not stop pressuring the College to fulfill its promise of a brand new fitness center, and I plan to make money available through Assembly for student organizations that are currently under-funded.
I will focus on Greek issues. Why shouldn't we have a statement from the College and the Board of Trustees that the Greek system is going to be around for the next ten or twenty years? Why can't we reduce the hassle of registration and the number of probation instances?
I will focus on issues of diversity because these are concerns that apply, not just to minority students on this campus, but to every student.
Minority groups on campus are currently forced to assemble and advocate for themselves mostly because student government has failed to give them a place on the agenda.
As someone who cares deeply about the fate of student government at Dartmouth, I ask that you take the time to make an informed choice.
I am confident that if you press the other candidates to speak to their past accomplishments and their concrete plans for next year, you will find their platforms empty.
