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Discuss “Searching for Senators: CMU elections delayed”

Last Friday, the student government Elections Board postponed elections from today until Tuesday, April 24. By the original deadline, the Elections Board, a committee of representatives from the Student Senate and the Graduate Student Assembly, had received only 10 petitions for the 30 vacant spots in the Student Senate.

The deadline for petitions has been extended to Wednesday, April 11, at 5 p.m. Platforms are due Tuesday, April 17, by 11:59 p.m.

According to the Senate bylaws, each college is required to have a certain number of student representatives. Many of the empty seats this year belong to historically underrepresented colleges, such as CFA.

With the approaching deadlines, however, the forerunners in the presidential and vice presidential...

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