The two weeks after Spring Break mean one thing for Community Senate: executive elections. They will be held on March 28 in Dana Lounge, off the main lobby in Founders hall. There will be two open forums before then. At the time of this column was written, there are four tickets in the race. They are:

For President: David Unger, with Erik Belmont (for Vice President), Tristan Wilson (for Treasurer), and Katie Watson (for Secretary).

For President: Tim Scales, with Wes Corning and Katie Bailey (for VP), Chris Lampkin (for Treas.), and Lili Sharpless (for Sec.)

For President: Rachel Gwin, with Jesse Seitel (for VP), Ista Clarke (for Treas.), and Ruth Murray (for Sec.)

For President: Nick Boylan, with Kass James (for VP), James Bartow (for Treas.), and Brittiany Green (for Sec.)

Feel free to stop any of these individuals to talk about Senate and where they see the future. There will be

scheduled forums for you to have additional chances to probe the candidates’.

The first forum was Tuesday night in the Community Center. About eight non-candidates attended to ask questions about the tickets’ experience and vision for Senate. Another forum will be taking place on Wednesday, March 22 at 2:30 p.m. in the Founders hall Gallery (on the second floor of Founders hall). The current Senate encourages people to attend these forums as they are very informative.

Also, in next week’s edition of The Guilfordian, there will be a spread featuring each ticket and a brief synopsis of its platform. Please look at this; it will be a great source of more information.

There will also be a ballot for the Dick Dyer Awards at the elections table on March 28. Dick Dyers Award recipients are nominated by students. It is an award that honors those students, staff and faculty who have excelled in extra-curricular activities.

Please keep this in mind when you head to the polls so that you can have nominations ready. Awards include Outstanding Advisor, Most Active R.A., Brightest New Club and Outstanding Contribution to Campus Life.

All students are eligible, and awards will be presented during the Student Activities Banquet in early April. Each club will be receiving invitations over the next several weeks, so look out for them in your club mailboxes (in the Student Organization Center on the second floor of Founders).

All traditional students can vote in the upcoming elections – that means seniors, too.

Finally, at this week’s Community Senate meeting we evaluated the new Senate structure. The general feeling was that the new structure is more efficient and allows more time for larger issues.

We then discussed how to act on the new information we have been collecting over the year. We discussed making our conversations with administrators more results-oriented, with goals for change instead of only information gathering.

We also discussed the ethical distribution of scholarships. Anthony Gurly came to discuss this issue at the beginning of the year, and Randy Doss came to discuss Admissions policy. We want to bring both back on March 29 to talk about how these issues are interrelated. We encourage all members of the Guilford community to attend this meeting.