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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Another housing post!

We got a tip a couple days ago from a Student Senator that the Senate passed a motion, which was sent to us (and isn’t posted online yet as far as we could find) to attempt to give a voice to the student body about housing reform.  The motion announces student dissatisfaction about a variety of the facets of Housing Selection.  Some quotes are below.

To address that sophomores should live mostly in residence halls and that upperclass students should live in apartments:

To express the dissatisfaction of the student body with the current system of on-campus housing, which we believe does not, in all cases, place students in housing which is most appropriate for their class year or the goals of the CLASS Initiative.

Responding to the Friday, Dec 18th email right before all students were leaving campus:

To express the dissatisfaction of the student body with the communication method employed by the Division of Student Life

What are they doing about it?

To invite members of the Student Life Division to a Roundtable Discussion on the Housing Process with members of the Student Senate…no later than March 1, 2010.

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