AMANDA DEDIE
Assistant News Editor
The votes are in, and the new Student Association class presidents and representatives have been announced. The new class presidents for the 2015-2016 school year are Mary Kay Taylor, sophomore class; Eduvijez Sanchez, junior class; and Stephanie Willis, senior class. The freshmen class did not have an election.
Taylor, a history major with business administration and Russian studies minors, the new sophomore class president, said, “I ran for class president because I like to get involved in issues on campus pertaining to my fellow campus members. I hope to accomplish the goal of relaying the students’ voice to the university members, and hoping to give the class of 2018 a voice during my duration of my presidency.”
Sanchez, a double major in international studies and public relations with minors in Italian and pre-law advisement, states that the decision to run for class president came with the gratitude she has to Fredonia for the opportunities he’s been presented.
“Since I stepped foot on this campus, Fredonia has constantly been giving to me. Giving me an education, giving me a chance at my dreams, giving me lifelong friends and a place to call home,” said Sanchez. “My sophomore year I decided it was time to give back, so I joined the Student Association to help represent peers in my class. Deciding to run for junior class president was me taking another opportunity to give back to a campus and my fellow peers that have given me so much.”
Finally there’s Willis, a senior public relations major with a triple minor in leadership, visual arts and new media, and business administration.
When Willis was a freshman she was a constituted group representative, which led to her becoming a class representative. When she was a junior she became class president for the first time, which she says was a natural progression into running for senior class president.
“[I] want to do this position because because it’s all the things I’ve been preparing for throughout my past three years here,” said Willis. “ It’s just such an honor to have been chosen for that position. I know I ran for it and I know that’s what I wanted, but that other people agreed that I would be good for that … I think that’s part of the best thing.”
As class president for the next year, and not unlike the other class presidents, Willis has plenty of plans for the senior class.
“I’m hoping that the programs and the things we can develop within our class and as a senior challenge committee are going to be engaging and effective and things that people in the senior class want to be a part of.”