Welcome Back!
I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break. We have a very important meeting this Wednesday at 5:30 in the IEA Multipurpose room. We have the following agenda. Elections have taken up to 2-3 hours historically so plan accordingly.
Agenda:
1) Elections
2) Planning our End of Semester Party!
Here are the people running:
President: Rishard, Sharmen, Misha*
Copresident: Ushma, Ayesha, Abishek
VP Finance: Aakash, Sharmen, Rahul, Abishek
VP Social and Political Affairs: Fatima, Aakash, Ushma, Ayesha*
VP Communications: Sharmen, Rahul, Aakash
*Have expressed desire to run and will be formally nominated during the meeting
Nominations will be open prior to elections during the meeting. That is your last opportunity to run for a position or decline if you are in the above list.
Procedure for elections:
The president and copresident will have 3 minutes to give a speech and some minutes for questions. All other positions will have 2 minutes for a speech and additional time for questions. This time limit will be enforced.
For each position, candidates will leave the room and each candidate will be called in separately to give their speech. Afterwards, there will be time for closed discussion and voting. Note that the candidates for that position will not vote. Afterwards the candidates will be brought in and the victor will be announced. Majority is required to win (>50% of voters). In the event that there is no majority, there will be a revote with the two candidates with the most votes.
To remove any bias, the election will be moderated by our advisor or an alumni.
If you have any questions, please email me and I will work with you to resolve your concerns. Best of luck to all the candidates.
Regards,
Riju Gupta
Biochemistry & Mathematics
Class of 2014
Bucknell University