ESC Spring 2008 Elections
The candidate forum took place on Friday, April 5th. If you were unable to attend, please view the videos below to see each candidate speak on a variety of issues.
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Class of 2009 President and Vice President
- Kim Manis(P) & Erin Zvokos(VP)
- Questions:
- What are your thoughts on developing senior pride?
- Why do you choose to plan and run senior events as supposed to simply participating in them?
Class of 2009 Representative
- James Tsai
- Krissie Zambrano
- Esther Zuckerman
- Questions (part 1, part 2):
- What are your policy and intergroup initiatives?
- How do you plan to gauge your constituency?
Class of 2010 President
- Heather Lee
- Nicholas Chen
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Questions:
- What kinds of academic programs do you have in mind?
- How will you two work together for next year?
- How will you reach out to constituency?
- Again, how will you reach your class? You haven’t given a clear plan.
- What kind of leadership experience do you have and what kind of leader are you?
- Why are you running?
Class of 2010 Vice President and Representatives
- Lili Gu(VP), Gunnar Aasen and Kelly Chen
- Questions:
- What will you push for in your respective committees?
- How will you integrate 3/2 students and how will you keep momentum as a council?
- What are your plans for publicity?
Class of 2011 President
- Kamal Yechoor
- Questions:
- What are your study abroad suggestions?
- Will you join/work on the policy committee and how will you navigate through administration?
- What routes will you use to talk with students?
Class of 2011 Vice-President
- Christopher Elizondo
- Questions:
- What do you plan to do to combat the sophomore slump?
- As VP you will be on the student life committee. What ideas do you have for the committee?
- You mentioned a sophomore only professional plan. Given the tendency of Columbia to act slowly on initiatives, how feasible do you think this is and can you elaborate on you plans?
- How do you want to improve publicity?
Class of 2011 Representative
- Dana Ibarra
- Albert Miller
- Jiaying Xu
- Questions:
- Will you join the policy committee or the inter-group committee and why?
- What do you feel is the role of class council?
- What initiative have you taken on and which do you wish o expand?
- How will you improve publicity?
CCSC Liaison
- Kimberly Lipman-White
- Questions:
- How will you keep communication open?
- What do you feel the ESC/CCSC relationship should be?
- What initiatives do you want to work on as a part of the policy committee?
GSSC Liaison
SGA Liaison
- Sophie Chu
- Questions:
- What policy initiative would you work on?
- What will you do to keep communication open?
Academic Affairs Representive
Alumni Affairs and Professional Development Representative
Student Services Representative
University Senator
- Brian Pan
- Rajat Roy
- Questions:
- What commitments do you hold outside of the ESC and how will you balance this with your role as senator?
- Can you elaborate on some of your policy initiatives?
- How will you vote to represent both undergrad and graduate students?
- If you lose, will you still be involved?
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