It seems like in recent weeks, The Daily Tar Heel headlines, your social media timelines and every other conversation have been dominated by three letters: SBP.
In all the hoopla over who will be the next student body president, we all seem to have forgotten something: senior class presidents. More specifically, what do they do? This isn’t meant to be a rhetorical question — we’re genuinely wondering what they do and why their seats don’t seem to be as highly contested.
On that note, what happened to Mr. and Miss UNC? Why aren’t THEY the senior class presidents?
The 2017-18 senior class president and vice president will be Karli Krasnipol and Aaron Epps, respectively. They won in a short and sweet election — it was short because there were no Student Supreme Court hearings, and it was sweet because they seem like very positive candidates.
But what exactly will be accomplished under the senior class presidents? Should they have political influence like the SBP? If we had a system where multiple seniors with high administrative positions held some sway over University affairs, imagine what could be accomplished for the students.
Maybe a solution is to combine the roles of Mr. and Miss UNC and the senior class presidents to give the students in those roles more power. We’ve seen past Mr. and Miss UNC titleholders implement real projects for the betterment of Carolina and its surrounding community — we would love to see other student leaders act in a similar way.
Until then, let’s just thank our lucky stars that the senior class presidents election didn’t mirror the SBP election.
