Secondary SRC Presidential Elections

Secondary SRC Presidential Elections
Nov 8, 2001, 4:55pm

Secondary students gathered in front of Rockefeller Hall to hear what their candidates had to say and consider what choice they will make on Friday.

The Student Representative Committee is the student governing body in the Secondary School. The fifteen members are elected from each of the secondary sections. These students meet on Friday evening each week and serve as representatives on each of the committees in the Secondary School.
The SRC constitution requires that its president be a member of a graduating class, so willing graduating representatives nominate themselves to run for the office. Although participation as elected members of SRC is restricted to students in their last two years of IC, all secondary students have voting rights. These voting rights will be exercised on Friday, November 9.
Ballots and ballot boxes will be on campus in the morning. By second break, we should know the results.

Khaled Sabeh addressing his constituency during the second break, less than twenty-four hours before the election.

The two gentlemen running this year are Khaled Sabeh and Marc Hage and they have been campaigning for the last week. On Thursday they took advantage of the last chance to get their message to voters. Each one took a turn, on the outside stairway facing Rockefeller Hall, to address the crowd gathered during second break. They were both very clear about their different platforms and promises giving voters a real choice.
Mr. Sabeh would use his office to seek a penalizing system alternative to probation. He believes some community service done on campus would be more productive. He would like to see make-ups scheduled before commencement so all students may graduate on commencement day. He also feels students would be well served if there were more career counselors on campus.

Marc Hage told students he wants to know what they want and prefers not to impose his own ideas without input from them.

Mr. Hage has some ideas of his own, but has run on a purely representative position. His intension is to make SRC suggestion boxes available to students and in that way learn what the student body at large wants to set as goals for their elected body. His own wish is to seek a solution to the cafeteria problem and to arrange for access to IC sports facilities for practice in non-school hours.
Best of luck to both candidates in the election on Friday. It looks like a win win situation for IC secondary students.