Senior Board race all about parties

Members of the Class of 1996 will have the chance to elect next year's Senior Class Board today and tomorrow. And all three candidates for president said the major issue in the campaign is knowing how to throw a good party. Wharton junior Lenny Chang, College junior Eden Jacobowitz and College junior Adam Miller will vie for the position. Chang, who has been president of the Class of 1996 since freshman year, said his experience gives him an advantage over the other two candidates. "I definitely have learned how to deal with the right people and to set things way in advance so that everything will be picture-perfect when the event arrives," he said, adding that he is "very aware of student needs." Chang said his primary goal, if re-elected, would be to ensure that his class has "the best senior screamers possible, the best Senior Week, the best senior formal, the best Ivy Day speaker, the best graduation speaker? I've already started on some of those things." Jacobowitz, a Daily Pennsylvanian photographer, said the senior class president is primarily a social position. "I think social life on this campus has seriously deteriorated," he said. "Senior screamers can save the social life on this campus -- for seniors, at least." Jacobowitz said that while the Senior Class Board does not cover issues as "important" as those on the Undergraduate Assembly, which he served on this year, it can influence campus life more by throwing parties the entire senior class can attend. Miller, like his opponents, said the most important part of the office is the ability to plan a good party. "[I want] the class to be much more involved in the screamers and the events of the Class Board," he said. "In the past the Board has done a very good job, but I don't think they've incorporated very many people." He added that he ran for senior class president because he felt the Class Board for his class has rarely done anything for him -- and that he wanted to make a difference. "I want to step it up a level that it hasn't gotten to in the past," he said. "[It is time for] a new dimension of leadership, a time for a change."