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Freshmen Kathy Kim and Ben Oren announced they will run for Student Assembly president and vice president on an informal ticket, citing a lack of firm positions on specific issues by the current candidates as their reason for joining only a week before the election.
"We looked at the candidates and saw the platforms they presented, or the lack of platforms in some cases, and we decided we would be able to implement the ideas people want," Oren said.
Kim said the race lacks diversity and specific issues because the candidates all agree on the issues.
Oren said the specific issues they would like to address include greater priority for students for tickets to Hopkins Center events, reforming the Committee on Standards and fighting plans to relocate the Special Collections library to Webster Hall.
"We don't have enough student space as it is," Oren said.
The candidates announced their candidacy too late to appear in last night's presidential and vice-presidential debates, but their absence is not the only disadvantage they face.