Student+Council+Election+2016

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On Tuesday October, 25 at Lyman C. Hunt Middle School there was an assembly. The assembly was held at 1:45pm. The students all went down to the auditorium for the Student Council assembly. At the assembly the principal, Len Phelan, started off with welcoming everyone and explaining a little of what happened. Then one of the student council members got up and introduced himself as Weller Fitch-O’Leary. He gave a little speech and introduced the rest of the student council members. Then another one of the council members got up and introduced one of the candidates running for secretary and called her to the podium. She gave her speech and the council member came back up and introduced the next candidate running for secretary. This was the way it went through, switching council members every now and then. There were two people running for each office and four office positions. Ariana Lyons and Micah Rossman ran for secretary. Julia Tran and Seth Rossman ran for treasurer. Davis Rock-Jones and Will Belluche ran for Vice-President. Rejos Neopaney and Ramsey Elder ran for President. After everyone gave their speech, the student council members had the two presidential candidates do a live debate. The questions had already been decided upon by the student council members. The two candidates did the debate and that ended the assembly.

All the students were dismissed by team and went back to their homeroom to vote. The winners were announced the next day during the morning announcements. The winners were Ariana, Seth, Davis, and Rejos. From Mrs. Rossell’s room, the social studies teacher on Oasis, you could here two cheers happen in a nearby classroom. One when they announced Davis’s win and once for Rejos’s. Most people were happy, but some were shocked or disappointed.

In my opinion I was a little shocked that Rejos won. At the assembly he didn't have a speech in front of him. He said he had a speech, but he was so scared that he forgot it, and I don't think that anybody really knew what it was. I think he might have won because he was somewhat funny, and he had some good viewpoints. One thing he said was that he thought teachers didn't want us to have backpacks in school because they don't trust us, but, yet, they want us to trust them. Also he yelled “let's go” into the microphone at the end. Rejos did a good job answering the questions they had after the speechs were given though. Between Rejos and Ramsey it was hard to vote because Ramsey seemed like he was better for President, but Rejos was on my team. In the end I went with who I thought was better. I did the same for Vice President because it was also hard to choose between those two. Secretary and treasurer were easy for me to vote on. I think Julia Tran, who was running for treasurer, had some good points. Only one thing in her speech didn't quite make sense, but I think that was just because she was nervous. I liked her idea of having equal rights. Almost every one of the candidates said they wanted backpacks in school, better water fountains, and either better jerseys or some jackets for the sports team. Seth Rossman, who was also running for treasurer, had a nice speech. He did say that he would like to try to possibly redo the fields which I don't think is going to be able to happen. Davis, running for Vice President had a good speech and he won. He made a good point that he wasn't going to promise new sports jerseys or anything because that would be difficult but he said he wouldn't give up. He also stated that he would listen to and bring up at student council meetings, ideas that other people had even if he didn't quite agree with them. He would try to look at it from another perspective. In Will’s speech at the end he said “where there's a will, there's a way”. I thought that was interesting and funny. Both people running for secretary were in sixth grade. I thought that was pretty brave. I like both of their speeches, but I liked Ariana’s the most.