Student government isn’t the only organization looking for fresh faces on Tuesday.
The Campus Y, an institution that calls itself the center for social justice at UNC for more than 150 years, will hold its annual election for two co-presidents Tuesday.
Four candidates split into teams of two are running for the positions.
One of the teams includes Jack Witty, who is co-chairman of Best Buddies, an organization that pairs college students with intellectually or developmentally disabled individuals in the community. He is partnered with Campus Y’s membership director Danielle Allyn.
On the other team is Dinesh McCoy, Campus Y’s co-director of outreach, and Shauna Rust, co-chairwoman of Tar Heel TABLE, which is an organization dealing with childhood hunger and poverty in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
Because both teams have someone with executive board experience and co-chairman experience, it is considered to be a close match for the roughly 650 Campus Y members who will be allowed to vote on Tuesday.
“I would say it’s definitely a challenging position,” said current co-president Cora Went. “It’s important to know how to communicate well and be able to form really close relationships quickly with people.”
Went and her co-president Natalie Borrego started their presidency with roughly 10 goals in mind, such as connecting members to internship possibilities, providing career development, making it easier to join the Campus Y and connecting with other organizations at UNC.
Went and Borrego believe they have made steps toward achieving each of these goals and hope next year’s presidents continue them.