College students troop to polls tomorrow
Partaking of an annual exercise that began with the restoration of the Supreme Student Council (SSC) in 1983, some 17,000 college students are expected to troop to the different polling centers in three college campuses tomorrow to elect the next president, vice-president and 21 councilors to represent them in the coming academic year.
The 2007 SSC elections once again pit the three traditionally competing student political parties STAND, SPP, and Tingog Carolinian which have been campaigning during the past two weeks in a bid to obtain the nod of Carolinian students. (STAND stands for Student Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy and is the oldest student political party, while SPP stands for Student Power Party, the youngest of the three competing aggrupations.)
Incumbent SSC president Ed Byron Monares (BS Mechanical Engineering 4) of STAND is running for reelection, the only second time in the 25-year history of the SSC that a president has sought reelection. To recall, Deogracias Cane of SPP was elected twice to the presidency of the SSC (in 2003 and 2004).
Students taking a closer look at the five Indpendent hopefuls.
Pitted against Monares are April Laine Murcia (AB Political Science 3) of SPP and Ma. Cassanadra Teves, (BS Psychology 2) of Tingog Carolinian.
The vice presidential hopefuls are Loyd Wilson Sato (AB Anthropology 3) of STAND; Lanndon Ocampo (B.S. Industrial Engineering 3) of SPP and Ariane Alix (B.S. Architecture 3) of Tingog Carolinian.
Vying for the 21 council seats are 16 candidates from STAND; 17 from SPP; 15 from Tingog Carolinian; and five Independents.
Author: J.E. R. Bersales
01 / March / 2007
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