Few running for class board positions

Want to be the senior class secretary? Or how about the junior class College or Arts and Sciences representative? You might have a better chance that you think -- no one else is running for those two seats or five others: senior class historian, the sophomore and junior class Nursing seats, the senior class Wharton representative and the senior class School of Engineering and Applied Science posts. Additionally, 12 other class board candidates for more prominent positions, including junior class vice president, are running unopposed. Nominations and Elections Committee Vice Chairperson for Elections Mike Brody said the low level of competition is not especially surprising. He attributed it to the fact that this is the first time the NEC has run the class board elections, which had previously been held by the boards themselves. The NEC required candidates to get more student signatures in order to qualify to run. "A lot of the class board candidates are not used to [the NEC's] election process," Brody said. "We set the signature totals a lot higher this year, and the idea of all the extra work might have been intimidating for [potential candidates]." In what is likely to be the most contested election, Wharton junior Clive Correia and College junior Sarah Gleit will vie in a rematch for the title of senior class president. Correia narrowly lost the junior class presidency to Gleit in a run-off election last spring. Robin Grossman, the current vice president, and Jeremy Katz, both College juniors, will face off the for the senior class vice presidency; College junior Ariella Poncz will run unopposed for re-election as class treasurer; Paras Shah and Joshua Diamond will vie for College representative; and Valerie Fields will run unopposed for re-election as Nursing representative. In the races for the junior class board, College sophomores Michael Flicker and Lisa Marshall will battle for the position of class president; College sophomore Jeff Lynn will run unopposed for the title of vice president; and Nursing sophomore Amy Koenigsberg will run unopposed for re-election as secretary. Also running unopposed are College sophomore Jennifer Brown for treasurer and Wharton sophomore David Chu for re-election as vice-president for corporate sponsorship. Incumbents Monique Mayer and Janet Duscher will run unopposed for Wharton representative and Engineering representative, respectively. And College freshman Ray Valerio will challenge College freshman Cam Winton, the current class president, for sophomore class president. Engineering freshman Nimita Shah will run unopposed for vice president, as will College freshman Yael Steren for class secretary. Wharton freshmen Zach Bornstein and current class treasurer David Peretz will face off for the position of sophomore class treasurer and Saraiya Malhar will run unopposed for vice president for corporate sponsorship. In what will be, by far, the most competitive race of the class board elections, four freshmen will compete for the title of sophomore class College representative: Vanessa Freeman, Jonathan Glick, Chris Rooney and Alexis Geaneotes. Nikhil Da Victoria Lobo will run unopposed for re-election as class Wharton representative. Theo LeCompte and Campbell Austin, a Daily Pennsylvanian staff member, will vie for the Engineering seat.