Ninety-Five Students Declare Candidacy for UC

UPDATED: September 14, 2016, at 10:01 p.m.

Campaigning and voting begin Monday for the Undergraduate Council’s fall election 2016 cycle, and 95 students declared their candidacy for the 42 open seats on the body, according to Election Commission Chair Matthew C. Estes ’18.

Candidates who are elected to the Council this election cycle will serve on the UC for the remainder of the academic year. Each House and freshman yard typically elects three candidates to the Council, although some Houses have fewer seats open this year because committee chairs, elected during last academic year, hold their positions until the end of this semester.

The total number of candidates running for the UC is lower this cycle than it was last fall, when 136 candidates ran for open seats on the UC. Freshmen—who make up 60 of the 95 total candidates this year—continue to represent the largest group of candidates for the Council. Eighteen sophomores declared their candidacy, along with 13 juniors and four seniors.

Several races will not be competitive this fall. Mather, Kirkland, and Cabot House each have three open seats up for election, and each have only three students who declared candidacy. Meanwhile, each of Dudley, Lowell, and Adams House has one available seat and one student running for office.

In addition, four seats on the UC will be left vacant this fall. In Quincy and Eliot House, three seats are available each, but only two students declared candidacy in each House. In Leverett House, where there are also three available seats, only one student declared her intention to run.

The most competitive elections are those in each of the four freshman yards—Crimson Yard, Elm Yard, Ivy Yard, and Oak Yard. Each yard has three open seats on the Council, and anywhere from 12 to 18 candidates.

Outside of the Yard, the most competitive races are in Currier and Dunster House, each of which has six students running. In Dunster House, where three seats are open, four of the six candidates have previously served on the UC; in Currier House, where two seats are open, three of the six candidates have previously served.

Voting begins Monday at noon and will conclude Friday at noon. Election winners will be announced Friday evening.

The following students have declared their intention to run for the UC:

Adams House (1 open seat)

Nicholas Whittaker ’19

Cabot House (3 open seats)

Chris B. Cruz ’17

Cameron K. Khansarinia ’18

Catherine L. Zhang ’19

Currier House (2 open seats)

Ashri Anurudran ’19

Ifedayo Famojuro ’19

Taylor P. Li ’18

Ziyad J. McLean ’18

Anna M. Raheem ’19

Anne M. Raheem ’19

Dudley House (1 open seat)

Laila M. Smith ’18

Dunster House (3 open seats)

Victor C. Agbafe ’19

Mika S. Esquivel ’18

Blake A. McGhghy ’18

Alex Popovski ’19

Leah D. Stewart ’19

Eric Wang ’19

Eliot House (3 open seats)

Taylor D. Marquis ’18

Kenneth C. Palmer ’19

Kirkland House (3 open seats)

Laura S. Chang ’19

Diana Im ’17

Joseph A. Paul ’17

Leverett House (3 open seats)

Ruiqi He ’19

Lowell House (1 open seat)

Benjamin F. Molin ’18

Mather House (3 open seats)

Nicholas D. Boucher ’19

Al B. Corvah ’18

Eduardo A. Gonzalez ’18

Pforzheimer House (2 open seats)

Meriton Ibrahimi ’18

Neel Mehta ’18

Laan Yeung ’19

Quincy House (3 open seats)

Denise J. Kwong ’19

Olu Oisaghie ’19

Winthrop House (2 open seats)

Evan M. Bonsall ’19

Ben B. Griswold ’18

Vimal S. Konduri ’17

Crimson Yard (3 open seats)

Arnav Agrawal ’20

Wesley Cash ’20

Eric J. Cheng ’20

Andrew Cho ’20

Nadine Khoury ’20

Brandon Martinez ’20

Nicholas Eynon ’20

Matthew McLaughlin ’20

Luke Minton ’20

Christian Navarrete ’20

Sahar Omer ’20

Samantha Pelletier ’20

Johnny Powell ’20

Katie K. Sakys ’20

Nick Stauffer-Mason ’20

Sean Sullivan ’20

Maureen Tang ’20

Lucas Ward ’20

Elm Yard (3 open seats)

Henry S. Atkins ’20

Elliott Birman ’20

Tingyue Cui ’20

Julia Edsparr ’20

Caleb Esrig ’20

Adam Harper ’20

T.J. Hazen ’20

Jasper Johnston ’20

Elizabeth Morrissette ’20

Tom Osborn ’20

Andie Turner ’20

Angelina Ye ’20

Ivy Yard (3 open seats)

W. Bryce Anderson ’20

Dragos Bugai ’20

Austin Eder ’20

Zachary Ellison ’20

Annie Kim ’20

Eli Langley ’20

Sruthi Palaniappan ’20

Grace Pan ’20

Damian Richardson ’20

Trey Rogers ’20

Teddy Sevilla ’20

Ben Sorkin ’20

Carrington Walsh ’20

Samantha White ’20

Luke Xu ’20

Oak Yard (3 open seats)

Carlos Agredano ’20

Ha Y. Ahn ’20

Perry M. Arrasmith ’20

Benjamin Austin ’20

Courtney Clark ’20

Kristie Colton ’20

Lily Ge ’20

James Gui ’20

Alejandro Jimenez ’20

Mitchell Pallaki ’20

Jungyeon Park ’20

Michael Scherr ’20

Austin Shifflett ’20

Ariana Soto ’20

Katie Wang ’20

—Staff writer Brian P. Yu can be reached at brian.yu@thecrimson.com. Follow him on Twitter @brianyu28.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

CORRECTION: September 14, 2016

A previous version of the list of UC candidates associate with this article incorrectly stated Dunster House has six vacant seats. In fact, it has three open seats.