Freshman Ranen Miao beat out two other candidates in a close race to become the next president of Student Union, joining sophomores Anne He and Arjan Kalra and juniors Alexa Jochims and Charlotte Pohl on the new executive board following their election, March 3.

Within two weeks of being here, campaign posters for College Council elections saturated my dormitory. A few weeks later, event invitations to elect Freshman Class Council members littered my Facebook and bombarded my notifications. How were students who had been at a school for less than a month already investing themselves so heavily in vying for extracurricular positions?

With Student Union elections coming up on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, members from the two Senior Class Council slates (Legacy and Inspire) and the Executive Slate (Progress) spoke with the Student Life editorial board this past weekend to give us a glimpse into their plans for next year.

The slate whose slogan and rubber campaign bracelets read, “All Slate: You’re in good hands,” took this year’s unusually competitive Freshman Class Council elections.