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We're Vaasavi Unnava and Aaron Gutierrez, two rising seniors running for Student Body President and Vice President. But this election isn't about us--it's about you. It's about giving ourselves the tools to change campus for the better, and leave a legacy we're proud of. Let's make change, together.
Here's how we're making sure you have the power to do just that:
Platform for Social Change: The President's Initiative
- Move the Board of the Directors to the beginning of the year, where clubs and organizations build partnerships to make change
- Set the agenda to address cultural problems on our campus, from SARV to Mental Health
- Reward the organization that provides the most innovative solution to a prevalent campus problem
Fiscal Transparency: Getting the Information We Deserve
- Provide flowcharts describing university budgetary process
- Bring transparency to spending of the endowment
- Create tangible goals for class donations, like material upgrades to the campus community
Student Government Transparency: For the Students
- Hold weekly office hours in the highest trafficked locations of campus
- Create "To StuGov With Love" Facebook group, where students can directly interact with student government officials
- Write a weekly column for the Tartan outlining issues and decisions made that week
Let's create a campus where we get to take the lead on making CMU what we want it to be, instead of waiting for administration to fix it. Why can we make this happen?
Why We're Qualified
Vaasavi Unnava
Student Body President
Vaasavi is a third year economics major at Carnegie Mellon. She is the Community Advisor of Morewood E Tower and spent two years serving in the Student Senate. In her tenure, she has:
- Started and managed the First Lectures (Watch at youtube.com/thefirstlectures)
- Co-founded the Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention (SARVP) committee, where her team helped improve graduate student orientation and put together the TartanHacks branch SARV hackathon.
- Reinitiated CMU's participation in Pittsburgh Student Government Council
- Created and taught a StuCo on financial literacy for the CMU Student (98-272!)
- Built an incentive structure in Morewood E Tower to significantly raise engagement with the city of Pittsburgh (and accidentally eliminated stress culture as a byproduct)
- Chaired the Business Affairs Committee in the Student Senate, getting new dumbbells in Skibo Gym, among other initiatives
Aaron Gutierrez
Student Body Vice President
Aaron is a third year computer science major with a minor in music at Carnegie Mellon. In his tenure, he has:
- Served as President and Treasurer of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
- Worked for two years as a teaching assistant for 15-122
- Advised Dining Services with selecting the new Skibo Cafe and Scott Hall dining vendor
- Served on the Academic Review board and University Disciplinary committee
- Allocated student organization space in the CUC in 2014 and 2016
Thank you for taking the time to read through all of this! If you have any questions, we'd love to get coffee or tea--please reach out to us at vunnava@cmu.edu or aarongutierrez@cmu.edu.