SGA’s got a full race ahead

We’ve got our hands on the list of candidates for this year’s Student Government Association (SGA) elections. And after last year’s Team IMPACT-dominated vote, dulled by a few uncontested executive seat grabs, The Signal is glad to announce that this year’s competition of runners could actually be competitive.

The spreadsheet of names emailed to The Signal by SGA’s election commission reveals that there will be five students vying for the presidential position which, due to the recent GSU-GPC consolidation, oversees the political operations of six Georgia State campuses.

Three of those runners hail from Georgia State proper, the Downtown Atlanta campus, while two still sport a Georgia Perimeter College student email address.

Four Georgia State students — all are enrolled at the Atlanta campus — will compete for the SGA president’s right hand position, executive vice president, which, along with the chief seat, went uncontested during the 2015 polls.

The new speaker of the senate, which acts as a liaison between the SGA senate and executive board, will be selected from a running of three Downtown campus students.

About 60 Georgia State students will be campaigning for senator positions among four schools of the university. The College of Business and the College of Arts and Sciences each raked in 25 prospective politicos. Georgia State’s policy and education schools claimed four and five candidates, respectively.

The names cannot be released to the public until March 21, when campaigning begins, but The Signal will drop teasers on its social media to start the conversation. The Signal will also host three political debates for the candidates on March 29, 30 and 31 at Urban Life 200. SGA elections will run April 5-7.