No Dumb Questions: What happens when Student Government can’t find enough senators?

Three students are running for seven seats for Student Government’s class of 2028 Senate positions. Those three students still need to be voted into office in Student Government’s first-ever Senate elections next week. But what about the other four seats? Student Government’s bylaws send readers questioning procedure on races with too few candidates to the constitution, which refers back to the bylaws’ vacancy procedure. A seat is not considered vacant until new members are seated in Student Government’s final meeting of the calendar year, according to Treasurer Gracie Vale ‘27, who served on the organization’s executive board during the constitutional rewrite that replaced an application-based representative system with a Senate election. Per the bylaws, Student Government’s vice president has one week following a vacancy to request applications from the student body. Students who apply for Senate positions to fill vacancies will not be subject to a public election.

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