<p>Does Columbia have a Class of 2009 website? Can you post a link? What are the features? Is there a chatroom/forum/profile area? Can anyone upload a screenshot?</p>
<p>wow, u must have posted this exact question on 20 things. What school ru going to btw??</p>
<p>yes somebody can upload a screenshot of a class that has yet to gather in one place</p>
<p>i think he/she may be posting so as to obtain a general sense of the aesthetic features and appeal of the student bodies of various institutions of higher learning. my advice to this aforementioned poster would be to peruse various online databases in this aim.</p>
<p>The latest class website on Columbia is for the Class of 2008: <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008</a> </p>
<p>The class of 2009 website won't be put up until you guys elect your student council body members in early October. Then they decide if they want put up a website for their class in the first place. </p>
<p>C
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008</a>
CC Student Council - Class of 2008</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CUfestival.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.CUfestival.com</a>
CU National Undergraduate Film Festival</p>
<p>Hey Soho,
How hard is it to get elected to student council????
What exactly do you have to do?
Could you please tell me about experience a little?</p>
<p>yeah, i'd like to know as well :)</p>
<p>it's freaking drama. Exciting, but the amount people taking it so personally is disgusting.</p>
<p>You enter the race for student council as a party. The party consists of a president, vice president, and 3 class representatives. You give a name to the party and create a platform. Then, you all campaign together at certain times with a limited number of posters allowed by this governing body of student elections. During this time you dorm-storm, design and post flyers, create websites, etc. Break rules (ie harass other parties, poster over your limit), and they'll limit you more posters or consider disqualification, etc. </p>
<p>Elections take two days. Class members vote for a party and three representatives that may come from any other party. The running party and the top three representatives with the most votes automatically becomes part of the council. That way, if you campaign as a class rep you can still have a chance of getting elected to student council even if your own party doesn't win (this is rare though, so just be damn good). </p>
<p>If you're party wins, all class reps from that party automatically become part of the student council. After elections, the president and vice president of the winning party gets to choose whoever he/she wants to be part of the council as class representative or any position he/she chooses to create as part of the council. (We had an open call, e-mail invite, and an interview)</p>
<p>Anyways, they were harrowing experiences for me both years and one of the most fun things I've ever done. But I was lucky, so the experience for me was positive. Don't take it too much to heart because it'll only be terribly frustrating if it doesn't work out in your favor. I had to break off from parties, do a regroup, late night copy machine runs, dorm-storm drama, etc.
And freshmen year is when the most parties run. We had 9 parties run against us our first year.</p>
<p>Be serious, take it seriously, but at the same time don't make it personal. Being elected to student council is a big deal and a big responsibility. You meet a lot of people through campaigning and you can get a lot done with the Columbia administration being a part of the council. </p>
<p>hope this helps. If you want to know what it personally is like to run for student council:
<a href="http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=SoHo&tab=weblogs&uid=247232325%5B/url%5D">http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=SoHo&tab=weblogs&uid=247232325</a>
was an entry I wrote looking back on what it was like to run for council. It's a little dramatic, forgive me. You'd be emotional too. :-D</p>
<p>C
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008</a>
CC Student Council - Class of 2008</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CUfestival.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.CUfestival.com</a>
CU National Undergraduate Film Festival</p>
<p>when does campaigning occur? date of elections? everything seems to happen so quickly.</p>
<p>Late September - October of your first year. The campaign for sophomore year council takes place March-April.
C
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008</a>
CC Student Council - Class of 2008</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CUfestival.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.CUfestival.com</a>
CU National Undergraduate Film Festival</p>
<p>thanks! does columbia give out official information on stuco or do you dive in it blind? i'm thinking of running, but i'm still not sure. how time consuming is it? (campaigning and being on council)</p>
<p>there will be flyers about student council informational meetings during the beginning of the year. I didn't go to any of them, but that's where you hear about it. I joined the running for the council when a random friend called me up to join his party.
C
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008</a>
CC Student Council - Class of 2008</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CUfestival.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.CUfestival.com</a>
CU National Undergraduate Film Festival</p>
<p>could you explain what factors are most important in running a successful campaign?</p>
<p>soho, your student coucil story is pure magic in words!</p>
<p>the trick for us is that we had a lot of good and very close friends who were not only dedicated to helping us but also had a lot of their own friends to join the cause as well. Therefore, you have to know a lot of people in a meaningful, non-superficial, non-fake manner (ie be as social as possible during orientation week and keep up on each of them instead of staying in your dorm and studying for the next placement exam). You need to truly genuine when making friends. No faking, no deception, no arrogance, be real and be yourself. Be a nice guy that's approachable and serious on the issues. Everyone hates fake people.
Therefore, it's still a popularity contest but in a more serious way where people not only have to know you, but they also have to like you as a person and trust you on the issues you are fighting for.
There are also "secrets" to a successful campaign that I believe a successful party should figure out for themselves as part of the experience.
hope this helps,
C
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008</a>
CC Student Council - Class of 2008</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CUfestival.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.CUfestival.com</a>
CU National Undergraduate Film Festival</p>
<p>thanks Soho!</p>
<p>Soho,
What are the issues that were debated about??</p>
<p>Depends on your platform. We had freshmen forums where parties submit anonymously one question to one specific party challenging the party's platform or specific members. Usually they concern the originality of party platforms, the feasibility of realizing lofty goals, the amount of experience behing party members concerning leadership, and questionable behavior of party members during the year. Stuff no different than actual presidential bickering of 2000 and 2004. Much of our freshman year issues were taken care of here:
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008/resolutions.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008/resolutions.html</a>
much of the things on that page were issues we debated over during our freshman campaigning. After elections, you best be able to fulfill what you campaigned for, because student council at Columbia is a serious responsibility your class keeps tabs on before and during "reelection" season.</p>
<p>For sophomore year, we debated over the strengthening of alumni connections, expanding the JJ's supermarket, increasing the amount of time students can stay on campus past the last day of classes, more events exploring the city, class unity on campus, and others.</p>
<p>C
<a href="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008%5B/url%5D">http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cc2008</a>
CC Student Council - Class of 2008</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CUfestival.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.CUfestival.com</a>
CU National Undergraduate Film Festival</p>