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:
  1. What are your thoughts on developing senior pride?
  2. 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):
  1. What are your policy and intergroup initiatives?
  2. How do you plan to gauge your constituency?

Class of 2010 President

• Heather Lee
• Nicholas Chen
• Questions:
  1. What kinds of academic programs do you have in mind?
  2. How will you two work together for next year?
  3. How will you reach out to constituency?
  4. Again, how will you reach your class? You haven’t given a clear plan.
  5. What kind of leadership experience do you have and what kind of leader are you?
  6. Why are you running?

Class of 2010 Vice President and Representatives

• Lili Gu(VP), Gunnar Aasen and Kelly Chen
• Questions:
  1. What will you push for in your respective committees?
  2. How will you integrate 3/2 students and how will you keep momentum as a council?
  3. What are your plans for publicity?

Class of 2011 President

• Kamal Yechoor
• Questions:
  1. What are your study abroad suggestions?
  2. Will you join/work on the policy committee and how will you navigate through administration?
  3. What routes will you use to talk with students?

Class of 2011 Vice-President

• Christopher Elizondo
• Questions:
  1. What do you plan to do to combat the sophomore slump?
  2. As VP you will be on the student life committee. What ideas do you have for the committee?
  3. 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?
  4. How do you want to improve publicity?

Class of 2011 Representative

• Dana Ibarra
• Albert Miller
• Jiaying Xu
• Questions:
  1. Will you join the policy committee or the inter-group committee and why?
  2. What do you feel is the role of class council?
  3. What initiative have you taken on and which do you wish o expand?
  4. How will you improve publicity?

CCSC Liaison

• Kimberly Lipman-White
• Questions:
  1. How will you keep communication open?
  2. What do you feel the ESC/CCSC relationship should be?
  3. What initiatives do you want to work on as a part of the policy committee?

GSSC Liaison

• Epsita Hoque
• Questions

SGA Liaison

• Sophie Chu
• Questions:
  1. What policy initiative would you work on?
  2. What will you do to keep communication open?

Academic Affairs Representive

• Boris Mindzak
• Questions

Alumni Affairs and Professional Development Representative

• Pradeep Bandaru
• Questions

Student Services Representative

• Emma Lebwohl
• Questions

University Senator

• Brian Pan
• Rajat Roy
• Questions:
  1. What commitments do you hold outside of the ESC and how will you balance this with your role as senator?
  2. Can you elaborate on some of your policy initiatives?
  3. How will you vote to represent both undergrad and graduate students?
  4. If you lose, will you still be involved?

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