We got a little frustrated with the fact that the Poly’s website was last updated on March 24 (they’ve been very busy, as you’ll see below!) because their articles this week about the elections are very interesting and give a good range of what’s going on inside the Union.  So what did we do?  We put our competitiveness aside and digitized the latest issue of the poly for your reading pleasure.  The text is searchable, too!  For elections info, see pages 1, 3, 8,9, 10, and 11.  Some great journalism and great opinion pieces.  Also, for some fun, try searching for “Hunt” just to see how many times it appears (we found 44).

April 28 2010 Rensselaer Polytechnic

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The Best GM Week Political Team at RPI

It’s that time of year again! Election fever has descended upon RPI this year even earlier than usual. The DCC’s windows are covered in posters in the shape of candidates’ names, the CII is once again a seven story billboard for a political party, and all over campus one can find banners adorned with campaign slogans. Yes, GM Week is upon us, and the battle to represent you, the students, has commenced. But who to vote for? Here at RPInsider we’ve assembled the best RPI political team on the internet (even better than last year’s) to help you decide just that.

Just as we did last year, we asked each of the GM/PU candidates by email to submit a short statement about themselves and why we should endorse them. For the GM candidates, we received responses from Ben Hunt, Andrew Neidhardt, and Michael Zwack. For PU, responses came from Mike Spitz and Stefan Dicker.

Based on the statements submitted, general campaign activity, and the debates, we have finally reached a decision:

RPInsider endorses Andrew Neidhardt for Grand Marshal and Stefan Dicker for the President of the Union.

Find out why below.
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