The HSSC elections for the 2024-25 school year took place for rising sophomores, juniors, and seniors during the last week of April.
Candidates who wished to represent their grade next year delivered a short speech of around one to two minutes. The candidates expressed their interests and intentions to join the student council for various reasons. Many had intricate plans to persuade their peers and achieve their goals of grasping the interests of their classmates.
“I decided to run as an HSSC candidate again this year because I had a very fun experience being part of the HSSC last year,” Jason Kang (9), HSSC member running for reelection, said. “I can promise that I will make unforgettable memories with the school community and make it a fun place. I will communicate with students daily about their thoughts on events and what they want in the future.”
New changes were made for the HSSC elections this year. The HSSC team grew from 20 to 25 members. Five students from each grade were elected, excluding the executive team. The executive team from this semester will serve as the executives for the next semester as well.
“We wanted to keep the executives separate from the grade level representatives,” Matthew Halter, HSSC advisor, said. “We need more consistency within the council, as there are too many important jobs that it is hard to keep consistent when the members change every four months. Keeping grade level representatives separate from executives helps with maintaining that consistency.”
Additionally, the new policy required at least two people for each gender and a fifth member elected by the highest number of votes regardless of gender.
“As for the new gender policy, we were seeing changes within grade representatives,” Mr. Halter said. “We used to have a decent balance between boys and girls, but it started to drop towards one gender which isn’t very representative of our student body. We tried to put in a fix so that no matter what, it doesn’t go one way or the other so that there is a good balance.”
