The University of Minnesota’s student government elections are March 5-7, and the following election guide includes all items on Monday’s ballot.
Any undergraduate, graduate, professional or PSEO student who pays the student services fee can vote in the election, including those studying abroad, nondegree seeking, part or full-time students.
The ballot will include the following:
MSA President and Vice President
Presidential candidate Dobbs DeCorsey and vice presidential candidate Larranz Guider are not a part of the Minnesota Student Association and hope to include more outside perspectives from non-MSA students. Both are active members of the University’s speech and debate team.
Their platform is based on making MSA more inclusive and accessible. DeCorsey and Guider’s initiatives include low-sensory study lounges, more study spaces on the St. Paul campus, micro-aggression training and addressing Boynton Health mental health complaints.
Presidential candidate Simran Mishra and vice presidential candidate Mina Kian have both held positions in MSA since their first year on campus.
Specifically, Mishra and Kian want to increase resources for international students, set advisory boards for input from students in multicultural, Greek and ROTC communities and address sexual violence on campus.
Referendums
This year’s only referendum revives a 2016 movement to get the University to divest from companies supporting Israel. The referendum received numerous complaints from last week, but was approved to be included on the ballot.
The referendum is sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine and other student groups and states:
“Should the students of the University of Minnesota demand the Board of Regents divest from companies that are 1) complicit in Israeli violations of human rights, 2) maintaining and establishing private prisons and immigrant detention centers or 3) violating indigenous sovereignty?”
Students will be allowed to answer yes or no.
MSA At-Large Representatives
Apostolos Kostolis
Benjamin Philbin
Brett Herbers
Brian Rosas
Camila Uruena Rojas
Caroline Pavlecic
Christina Busche
David Dobkin
Emily Graper
Grant Simons
Henry Capuano
Ian Hackman
Jack Thalhuber
Jacques Frank-Loron
Jake Marble
Janet Nguyen
Jeremy Schlitz
Jerika Eppel
John (Jack) Drucker
Katherine Chyna
Maktal Mohamed
Michael Dunst
Mikaela Brandt-Fontaine
Natasha Sohni
Nina Kostic
Ramla Mohamud
Tala Alfoqaha
Taylor Larick
Tyler Sirovy
Van Dang
Zoe Kondes
Council of Graduate Students President and Vice President
President:
Jonathan Borowsky
Scott Petty
Sean Chen
Vice President:
Sean Chen
Professional Student Government President and Vice President
President:
Alanna Pawlowski
Mike Sund
Sonya Ewert
Vice President:
Jeremy Kobany
Student Senate
The candidates can only be voted on by students in their respective colleges. Some colleges, such as the School of Nursing, the College of Pharmacy, the School of Public Health, the College of Design, the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the School of Dentistry do not have candidates running and require voters to write in a name.
College of Biological Sciences Graduate:
Kelly Wallin
CBS Undergraduate:
Andrea Veloira
Nikil Badey
Sophia Vrba
College of Continuing and Professional Studies:
CJ Griebenow
Tyron N. Terry
College of Education and Human Development Graduate:
Ryan Machtmes
CEHD Undergraduate:
James Farnsworth
College of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resource Science Graduate:
Caroline Pierce
Deepak Haarith
CFANS Undergraduate:
Kenzie Barth
Kevin Behrens
Kyle Manske
Van Dang
Yuying Shan
College of Liberal Arts Graduate:
Jonathan Borowsky
CLA Undergraduate:
Alison Christianson
Alyssa Haniff
Austin Berger
Cassidy Drummond
Catalina Anampa Castro
Cyrus Farivar
Drew Torrance
Garrick Spennwyn
Isaiah Ogren
Jiahui Li
Jonah Walker
Lulua Webo
Maykayla Schumacher
Meara Cline
Morgan Benth
Natalie Magnusson
Saleh Ali
Shukri Elmi
Tristan Kick
College of Science and Engineering Graduate:
Sean Chen
CSE Undergraduate:
Adam Leligdon
Carl Thon
Cole Jensen
Dylan Tey
Lauren Myers
Meghan Flynn
Nathaniel Olson
Tim Zeien
Tyler Wendland
Carlson School of Management Undergraduate:
Amy Ma
Ian Smith
Jerrika Eppel
Leticia Wamulumba
Shirin Fatima
Tony Guo
College of Veterinary Medicine:
Jordan Young
Law School:
Elvis Kim
Medical School:
Salman Ikramuddin
