Newly-elected class council members begin their terms

BSG Update: BSG to sponsor absentee ballot distribution system

In an effort to increase voter participation among students, Bowdoin has recently partnered with TurboVote to make voting an easier and simpler process.
TurboVote, a nonpartisan and nonprofit organization, provides absentee ballots by mail to its members. Through the College’s partnership with TurboVote, students who sign up at bowdoin.turbovote.org can receive election reminders and absentee ballot request forms.
TurboVote will also help students register to vote and provide them with reminders about upcoming voting deadlines.

BSG Update: BSG approves past expenditures at first meeting

In its first meeting of the 2013-2014 academic year, Bowdoin Student Government (BSG) dove right into business by unanimously voting to retroactively authorize funding proposals that had been implemented by BSG over the summer and during first-year orientation.
The first of the three proposals discussed on Wednesday night—introduced by Vice President for Facilities and Sustainability David Levine ’16—retroactively authorized an expenditure made over the summer for $12,000 to provide a film service to stream new movies online and over Bowdoin’s cable system. According to Levine, the program is run through Swank Motion Pictures, a company that provides colleges and other institutions with licenses to stream recently released Hollywood films.
According to BSG President Sarah Nelson ’14, the program had previously been under the operating budget of the Bowdoin Cable Network, “but it fell by the wayside last year, so we talked a lot about it and decided that it was a service that was popular enough that we felt it was something that BSG could be providing to students.” The $12,000 covers the rights to the 15 new films—chosen by BSG—per month which will be streamed online, as well as played on loop on a channel of the college’s cable.

BSG Update

Newly-elected class council members begin their terms

October 4, 2013

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On Sunday, the Classes of 2014 and 2017 elected their class councils for the coming year. Simon Brooks ’14 was voted senior class president with 155 votes and Justin Pearson ’17 was voted first-year president with 191 votes. There was record turnout for both elections, with 74 percent of the Class of 2014 and 82 percent of the Class of 2017 casting votes.

Both presidents stressed class unification as one of their main goals for the coming year. One of Brooks’ first actions as president was to acquire a class list in order to learn the names and faces of all senior class members.

“One of my biggest goals this year is to attempt to unify this class to the best of my abilities, and I think knowing everybody’s name is the first step,” said Brooks.

Since being elected, Pearson has met with the class council as well as an advisor for Student Activities, but has not yet made any proposals.

“We’re waiting on getting the input of candidates who we ran with and ideas from our class,” Pearson wrote in an email to the Orient.

Brooks said he has made four or five proposals, which are still in the process of getting approved.
Both presidents were hesitant to cite the exact activities they planned for the coming year, stressing the importance of spontaneity.

“I’m coming up with new things that people will hopefully be pleasantly surprised by,” said Brooks.

Pearson would like to plan events in the spirit of Orientation in order to help first years continue meeting new people. Since Orientation ended, he believes “we have lost opportunities to connect, and we want to bring those back without so stringent a schedule,” he wrote.

Both candidates expressed excitement about the coming year.

“I trust this class and they trust us. We can only march forward from here,” wrote Pearson.

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