Year in Review, Spring: New StuCo Executive Board and Reps Elected

With the cyclical nature of student government came a spring term characterized by elections and students eager for their required signatures. This year, Exonians voted uppers Rebecca Ju and Jun Park and lower Joel Lotzkar as president, vice president and secretary, respectively, for the 2015-16 academic year. In addition to StuCo’s Executive Board, class representatives were voted into power. Students elected upper Kevin Zhen as next year’s senior class president and uppers Levon Brunson and Chukwudi Ikpeazu as the co-vice presidents. Lowers Sarah Brown, Julia Friberg and Issay Matsumoto were voted as upper representatives and preps Jackson Parell, Charlotte Polk and Taylor Walshe were voted as lower representatives. As President, Ju said she is already forming plans for what she wants to address in the coming year. On the forefront of her plan is the needed improvement for ways in which Exeter treats mental health. She plans to focus on educating the health center on issues of transparency and mental health while implementing an anonymous feedback system for the health center and counselors. Ju wanted to see more panels, forums and assemblies relating to the topic along with a weekly StuCo newsletter to inform on the Council’s progresses. Along with her Executive team’s aligning goals and the help from the entirety of StuCo, the 2015-16 year is hoped to be ripe with student-initiated change.