Student Assembly will host the first debate on Tuesday night in Paganucci Lounge. A second debate hosted by The Dartmouth will take place Wednesday and Inter-Community Council will host its own Thursday at Cutter-Shabazz. The final debate, centered on Greek Life, will take place on Saturday in Paganucci, and is the only debate to feature both presidential and vice presidential candidates.
If elected, Ferrari and Kuppa-Apte said they would focus on collaboration between the Inter-Community Council, Student Assembly and Palaeopitus, all of which serve as a link between students and administrators.
"There are three groups dedicated to doing well, and they don't always know where their common goals interact," Ferrari said. "They'll need someone who kind of has their pulse. Our message becomes that much stronger when our voices are speaking in unison."
The team is interested in expanding the Assembly's upperclassmen-freshman mentorship program. The current program links three freshmen to one mentor, and Ferrari said he hopes to decrease the ratio to one to one.
"I can't think of an upperclassman who doesn't want to grab coffee with an energetic freshman," Ferrari said.
Ferrari is a government major and public policy minor from Silicon Valley, Calif. He is the co-chair and former LGBT liason for the ICC and a freshman floor undergraduate advisor. Ferrari is currently on the government foreign study program in Washington, D.C. and will spend the week in Hanover to campaign. Kuppa-Apte, a government and economics double major from Chester Springs, Pa., is co-captain of the women's rugby team and social chair of Sigma Delta sorority. She is also a former athletics liason for the ICC.
"Between the two of us, we've been able to become part of lots of diverse communities on campus," Kuppa-Apte said. "At the same time we're always crossing paths. It's cool that we got a chance to bring those sides together."
Leger became active in the Assembly this year and said she is passionate about seeing students reach their full potential.
"I saw how you could have very effective leadership, but without a good team it's hard to get things done," Leger said.
Currently, the Assembly is "just another group on campus," Leger said. She hope to make the Assembly the main umbrella group for the student body, delegating "ministers" to different areas of campus, and bridge the communication gap between administrators and students.
Her slogan is "Vote Janine for Big Green," and she hopes supporters will sport green ribbons.
"I love this campus and I love the people, and I want to make sure everyone is achieving the best of their ability," Leger said.
Leger hails from Johannesburg, South Africa and is a double major in studio art and geography modified with economics. She is a member of the women's field hockey team, KDE and the Hill Winds Society.
Ramirez will campaign to increase the administration's transparency. He plans to start a grassroots movement with the campaign slogan "What's your story?" to encourage students to share their diverse backgrounds and experiences.
"I want to demonstrate that all Dartmouth kids have their own story," Ramirez said. "Then we as a student body can understand each other and come together to tackle issues on campus. Hopefully, it will start making people think about how they view students and how not to conceptualize and put them in a box."
Ramirez hopes to tackle campus identity and race issues, as well as the lack of student input in administrative decisions, including alcohol policies.
He said he wants to change the Assembly by stabilizing its institutional memory and ensuring that it focuses more on creating and enacting policy and less on programming.
Ramirez, a Colombia native who currently resides in Houston, is a government and environmental studies double major. He is president of the Green Key Society, a student program assistant at the Rockefeller Center and a First-Year Student Enrichment Program mentor.
Wood and Zhu intend to strengthen communication between students and administrators, give hazing a clear campus-wide definition and bring deans to dining halls.
Wood hopes to hold a campus-wide philanthropic event that would benefit the Upper Valley.
Like Ferrari and Kuppa-Apte, Wood and Zhu emphasized their strong friendship and working relationship.
"Because we are great friends, I don't feel uncomfortable saying, Kelly this is not a great idea,' and that works for our advantage," Zhu said. "We are Venn diagrams. We connect to different communities on campus but at same time we are similar enough that we have a middle part where we can come together."
Wood is an earth sciences major and an education and environmental studies minor from Etna. She ran for the varsity cross country and track for two years, is a member of Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority and serves as assistant director for Summer Enrichment at Dartmouth.
Zhu hails from Grand Rapids, Mich., and is a chemistry major and government minor.
In addition to being a member of Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity and a tour guide, he is a DREAM mentor, service chair of the Inter-Fraternity Council and a member of the Dartmouth Cords.
Staff writer Sean Connolly contributed reporting for this article.
This article has been updated to reflect the following:
Update: April 9, 2013
The original version of this article left out that Ferrari is currently on the government foreign study program in Washington, D.C. and will spend the week in Hanover to campaign.
