The 2025 Undergraduate Student Government Polytechnic election is set to take place from April 1-2, and two executive tickets will be running — a deviation from past election cycles where there were unopposed tickets.
Shreya Ticket
The Shreya ticket candidates designed their three pillars to coordinate with the first letter of each of their names — strength for Shreya, revolution for Roberto Ortiz-Gonzalez and commitment for Clare Wiegman.
Shreya, a freshman studying financial technology, is running for president. She is currently a USG-P senator and the chair of the appropriations committee.
Ortiz-Gonzalez is running for vice president of policy. He is a freshman studying engineering and currently a USG-P senator and the appropriations committee co-chair.
Wiegman is running for vice president of services. She is a sophomore studying aeronautical management technology and has no previous experience in USG. However, she said she has gained leadership experience after joining Greek life and becoming a community assistant at Century Hall — student housing on the Polytechnic campus.
They are building a platform meant to help create a self-sustaining campus and encourage the Polytechnic students, especially those living off-campus and attending online, to be involved with what the campus and University as a whole has to offer.
"A strong community really thrives upon opportunities, support and resilience," Shreya said. "And that is what I envisioned when I thought of strength."
Ortiz-Gonzalez said their second pillar, revolution, means ensuring the Polytechnic campus runs more efficiently and making its resources easier to access for all students.
"Not just academically, not just personally — making sure both are running at tip-top shape," Ortiz-Gonzalez said. "Making sure online students have all their needs met, have just as much resources, have just as much activation, just as much say as people who are in person."
The final pillar, commitment, means a promise made is a promise kept, Wiegman said.
"We, right now, are promising to our students that we're going to be transparent with them," Wiegman said. "This student government is going to be about them and for them."
Read more about their platform here.
Gowda Ticket
The three candidates on the Gowda ticket are Hillery Gowda, Ronald Hufancia and Nicole Irwin.
The ticket's presidential candidate, Gowda, is the current USG-P vice president of services, and she is a junior studying aeronautical management technology.
Hufancia is running for vice president of policy. He is a freshman studying engineering and currently a senator for USG-P.
Irwin is running for the vice president of services. She is a sophomore studying organizational leadership who is also the current director of outreach for USG-P.
The candidates hope to fulfill their campaign promises by improving accessibility and communication between USG-P and the Polytechnic campus' student population.
"They (students) would like more transparency from USG, and we plan to have open forums, we plan to make changes during our office hours on how they are done," Gowda said. "It will also be an open space for our students to come and talk to our senators and voice their concerns."
The "ABCs" of the Gowda ticket are achieve, build and connect.
Under the achieve pillar, the ticket aims to help students maximize their learning experience through USG-P providing them with all the resources available. Hufancia said the candidates on the ticket hope to be proper representatives of the student population.
"We believe that in order for proper progress to be made, it should be on a level where we're all seeing eye to eye and not 'I am the one who's leading you,'" Hufancia said.
For "build," Gowda said the ticket will expand the resources the University provides by "making a more safer space to coexist with one another, and making sure that this is where every student feels supported and connected."
The third pillar represents how the ticket wants the student population on the Polytechnic campus to connect with one another through extracurriculars and campus activities.
“We want to build a more unified and engaged Polytechnic campus by enhancing links among student groups, campus resources and have open conversations, collaborative spaces and groups where people can connect with one another," Irwin said.
Read more about their platform here.
Edited by George Headley, Sophia Braccio and Katrina Michalak.
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