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News
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com
Beginning
Wednesday
morning,
University
of
Michigan
students
will
be able to vote for the
LSA Student Government
president and vice president.
The Michigan Daily spoke
with the candidates of each
ticket to learn more about
their past work and their
platforms.
Ticket
#1:
Jordan
Schuler
(President)
and
Sai Pamidighantam (Vice
President)
Jordan Schuler is a junior
majoring in Organizational
Studies
and
Philosophy,
Politics
and
Economics.
Schuler has been a part of
LSA SG since his freshman
year. He said he has used his
time on LSA SG to build a
community within student
government.
Sai
Pamidighantam
is a junior majoring in
Biopsychology,
Cognition,
and
Neuroscience
with
minors in applied statistics
and Gender and Health.
Pamidighantam has been
part of the LSA SG for
three years. She served as
an associate representative
and then moved up to be the
vice chair of the Diversity
Affairs Committee.
The theme of Schuler and
Pamidighantam’s platform
is
being
relationship-
driven
and
inclusivity-
focused. They said their
goal
is
to
be
able
to
collaborate with a variety of
multicultural organizations
and
politically-focused
organizations on campus.
According
to
Schuler,
diversity
and
inclusivity
are at the center of their
campaign.
“I
think
the
most
important
piece
of
our
campaign is that we don’t
want things like diversity
and inclusivity to just be
buzzwords, but to be a
promise
and
something
that we follow through on,”
Schuler said. “Something
that
we’re
committing
to doing for the year to
come is making people on
our campus, regardless of
their background or their
identities, feel welcome in
our government and have a
commitment to projects that
show that we mean it.”
If they win the election,
Schuler and Pamidighantam
hope to create a General
Learning
Center,
where
students could go to get
free tutoring in any subject.
They
hope
to
promote
transparency with students
about the costs of courses,
and would like to continue
working with the Maize &
Blue Cupboard.
Ticket #2: Selena Bazzi
(President)
and
Josiah
Walker (Vice President)
Selena Bazzi is a junior
studying
biomolecular
science
with
a
double
minor in Art & Design
and
Community
Action
and
Social
Change.
Bazzi has been part of
student government at the
University for three years.
Josiah Walker is a junior
studying political science
and has not previously been
involved with LSA SG.
Bazzi said her time in LSA
SG working with student
groups and administration
has helped her gain a lot of
knowledge about various
groups
and
institutions
within the University.
“I feel like I’ve gained
unique
institutional
knowledge to understand
how
the
University
functions, where it’s lacking
and where things are going
well,”
Bazzi
said.
“And
my three years of student
government
experience
have given me insight on
how to make the changes
that I want on campus.”
Walker chose to take his
experience throughout his
three years on campus and
apply it to the LSA SG.
“I decided to run because
I’ve been heavily involved
in other organizing spaces
on campus,” Walker said.
“I think merging student
government
efforts
with
efforts
made
by
other
organizing
spaces
on
campus will have a much
more tangible impact on the
causes that both groups care
about.”
Bazzi and Walker said
their platform focuses on
fostering a more affordable
university
through
resources such as free test
prep and cheaper textbook
costs. Bazzi said their goal
is for finances not to be a
barrier for students.
“So, in terms of academics,
we want to promote a
textbook
affordability
initiative,” Walker said. “We
know that a lot of textbooks
from some of the upper-
level classes or some of the
STEM classes and even
the language classes can
be costly. I want to work
with the dean and other
university
resources
to
figure out how to make the
material more affordable for
students.”
Reporter Brayden Hirsch
can be reached at braydenh@
umich.edu.
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LSA student gov’t candidates
talk platform, previous work
The Daily sat down with students running for the positions of
president, vice president for each ticket ahead of elections this week
Read more at
MichiganDaily.com
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COURTEY OF JORDAN SCHULER & SELENA BAZZI
LSA juniors Jordan Schuler and Sai Pamidighantam are running against LSA juniors Selena Bazzi and Josiah Walker for the positions of president and
vice president for the LSA Student Government.
Gabaron
said
several
language
departments
decided to offer students
the opportunity to tune into
live lectures or discussions
at different section times
other than their original
time. This offers students
who live in different time
zones a chance to engage
in
live
discussions
at
reasonable hours of the day,
Gabaron explained.
“As
the
schools
were closing it became
challenging
for
people
to work from home with
a new family situation,”
Gabaron said. “So that was
also a little bit difficult
but I think it was great
because students were very
much
understanding
of
the instructor’s situation
and the instructors were
very understanding of the
student situation. So I really
felt that what happened
this week was very strong
in terms of emotions, but
also in terms of bonding
and understanding of each
other. ”
LSA
freshman
Neil
Kapadia is from Mumbai,
India. He said his professors
have been understanding
and accommodating for his
math classes.
“So far, the transition has
been quite smooth, it hasn’t
been as bad as I thought
it
would
have
been,”
Kapadia said. “I mean, this
is obviously not an ideal
situation, but professors
are at least trying their best
to make it the same. For my
math class, they’ve shared
the
worksheets,
they’ve
extended
deadlines,
and they’ve given us the
opportunity to collaborate
with everyone else because
that’s what math class is
about.”
However, Kapadia said
there still remains a barrier
to attending online office
hours
with
professors
whose time zones are in a
country across the globe.
Eastern Standard Time is
10 hours and 30 minutes
behind the time zone in
Mumbai.
“The only thing I find a
little tough with the time
zone is with office hours
and all, because the timings
are not going to change,”
Kapadia
said.
“They’ll
probably
be
around
midnight, but that will be
okay I guess, for like one or
two nights to stay up.”