Undergraduate Student Senate will be holding elections tomorrow for its nine student senator positions.

Undergraduate students can vote online between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. tomorrow at www.wfs.kent.edu or www.uss.kent.edu. Winners will be announced between 6 and 6:30 p.m. Wednesday on the plasma screen in front of the USS Office in the Student Center.

Below, the candidates lay out their qualifications and platforms for office. Lindsay Fields, candidate for student advancement, and Christopher Corbett, candidate for research and development, could not be reached for comment.

Ross Miltner

Running for: Executive Director

Major: Communication studies

Year: Junior

Age: 21

Platform Goals:

– Work with the All Campus Programming Board to improve programming on campus.

– Remove permanent seats on the Allocations Committee so all student organizations have an equal opportunity to be represented.

– Work with a new program the city manager has been working on, which connects the city and university via internships and projects for students.

Involvement:

Senator for community affairs

Delta Upsilon fraternity

College Democrats

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go:

Ireland, Italy and France

Dream Job:

Dean at a major university

Favorite Quote:

“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company,” Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1930-1941) and Delta Upsilon alumnus

Christopher Taylor

Running for: Executive Director

Major: Nursing

Year: Junior

Age: 21

Platform Goals:

– Improve public safety on and off campus

– Address communication issues between USS and the undergraduate student body by getting more students to come to weekly USS meetings.

– Give students an automatic $100 on their board plan for FlashCash, so students can go off campus to dine.

Involvement:

PRIDE!Kent President

Public Safety Advisory Committee

Students for Professional Nursing

Gospel Choir

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go:

London

Dream Job:

Nursing lobbyist, activist

Favorite Quote:

“Be who you are,” Anonymous

Preston Mitchum

Running for: Academic Affairs

Major: Political science

Year: Sophomore

Age: 20

Platform Goals:

– Promote and expand USS book exchange.

– Hold forums to show students how to use the KAPS report.

– Make pamphlets to show students the different LER options available to them.

Involvement:

Senator for student advancement

Black United Students

Vice President of Kent State NAACP

Phi Sigma Pi honors fraternity

Chair of Student Leadership Committee

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go:

Anywhere in Africa, especially Egypt

Dream Job: Attorney

Favorite Quote: “A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything,” Malcolm X

Caitlin Faas

Running for: Academic Affairs

Major: Vocational family and consumer science

Year: Sophomore

Age: 19

Platform Goals:

– Help freshmen learn about the plus/minus system at Kent State.

– Promote the effective use of instructor evaluations.

– Promote the XF grade, because students who cheat should not receive the same grade as those who try and get an F.

Involvement:

Resident Assistant for Centennial Leadership Academy

Honors College Policy Council

Phi Sigma Pi honors fraternity

National Resident Hall Honorary

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go:

France

Dream Job:

Author of self-help books

Favorite Quote:

“Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, except she did it backwards and in high heels,” Faith Whittlesey

Sean Groves

Running for: Business and Finance

Major: Finance

Year: Junior

Age: 20

Platform Goals:

– Remove permanent seats on the Allocations Committee.

– Revise block funding to make university responsible for it, instead of students.

– Hold allocations informational seminars to educate student organizations on the allocations process.

Involvement:

Undergraduate Student Senate Allocations Committee

Member and Treasurer of Delta Upsilon Fraternity

Member of Financial Management Association

Member of College Republicans

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go:

London

Dream job:

Financial analyst in New York City

Favorite Quote: “The only way to succeed is through hard work and dedication,” Sean Groves

Nathan Williams

Running for: Business and Finance

Major: Integrated social studies

Year: Junior

Age: 21

Platform Goals:

– Create a diverse Allocations Committee board.

– Create better relations among student organizations and the business and finance senator.

– Provide more permanent seats on the Allocations Committee.

Involvement:

Community affairs officer of Black United Students

Planning committee for United for Biloxi

Lead teacher for Progressive Education Community School

Member of Students Against Katrina

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: Egypt

Dream Job: Mayor of Youngstown

Quote: “People without knowledge of their past are like trees with no roots,” Marcus Garvey

Kourtney Wolfgang

Running for: Research and Development

Major: Business management

Year: Junior

Age: 20

Platform Goals:

– Work more with the All Campus Programming Board. Research what programs are popular at other universities to see if they would be popular here.

– Work with other senators to let the students know what they are working on.

– Find new ways to reach students via polls and surveys and through student organizations.

Involvement:

Member of Delta Gamma sorority

National Society of Collegiate Scholars

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: Hawaii

Dream job: CEO for Pepsi

Favorite quote: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” source unknown

Donovan Hill

Running for: Student Relations

Major: Political science

Year: Junior

Age: 20

Platform Goals:

– Have a student senate briefing in the Daily Kent Stater, so students are informed on projects the senators are working on.

– Improve the university orientation program by visits from representatives of student organizations to get freshmen involved on campus.

– Improve the connections between student organizations and USS in order to improve public safety.

Involvement:

Member of College Democrats

Member of Pre-Law Club

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: Japan

Dream Job: Senator, preferably in Ohio

Favorite quote: “The sword is an instrument of death. Its use is to kill. But in killing one evil man, the sword gives life to hundreds that he might have harmed,” Yagyu Menenori

Brian Apel

Running for: Student Relations

Major: Communications studies

Year: Junior

Age: 21

Platform Goals:

– Improve the Coffee with Cartwright program, and get the new president involved.

– Improve communication between the administration and undergraduate student body.

– Help student organizations improve their advertising for programs.

Involvement:

Served on the USS Allocations Committee

USS Representative to the Public Safety Committee

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: Russia

Dream Job: Sports agent

Favorite quote: “You don’t make decisions because they are easy, you make them because they are right,” source unknown

Christen Coppola

Running for: Student Relations

Major: Marketing

Year: Junior

Age: 21

Platform Goals:

– Set up biweekly luncheons for an informal meet-and-greet with deans and professors.

– Attend as many student organization meetings as possible to connect them with USS.

– Strengthen and continue the Committee for Student Advertising.

Involvement:

Director of Public Relations for Kent Interhall Council

Member of the Pre-Law Club

Member of American Marketing Association

University Orientation Instructor

University Orientation Student Instructor Trainer

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: Bahamas

Dream Job: Civil Court lawyer

Favorite quote: “Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today,” James Dean

Megan Sedello

Running for: University Affairs

Major: Psychology and speech pathology

Age: 21

Platform Goals:

– Bring back the All University Hearing Board, which acts as a jury of peers instead of one hearing officer.

– Promote the judicial advocate program, which helps students who go through judicial affairs.

– Work to improve safety on campus.

Involvement:

Member of Delta Zeta sorority

Senator for University Affairs

Overseer of Judicial Advocate Program

Parking Services Committee Undergraduate representative

Intramural volleyball league

Omicron Delta Kappa Honors fraternity

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dream job: Actress/singer

Favorite quote: “Life is not the amount of breaths you take, it is the moments that take your breath away,” from the film Hitch

Richard Wittkopp Jr.

Running for: University Affairs

Major: History

Year: Senior

Age: 22

Platform goals:

– Get student organizations involved to improve public safety.

– Create student involvement in the presidential search.

– Have student voices heard on the smoking ban the university is proposing.

Involvement:

Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity

Three years in ROTC Air Force

Three years with All Campus Programming Board

Kent Pres. – Presbyterian college group

Dream Job: Catholic Youth Ministry

Favorite quote:”You can’t lose what you don’t put in, but you can’t win it either,” Matt Damon in Rounders

Amy Groya

Running for: Governmental Affairs

Major: History and political science

Year: Sophomore

Age: 19

Platform Goals:

– Create report cards for all Ohio legislators on how they vote on issues of concern to college students.

– Increase student awareness of statewide and local candidates.

– Continue and expand upon the “Live Here, Vote Here” program.

Involvement:

Membership director for the College Democrats

Served on Allocations Committee

Served on Affirmative Action Search Committee

Delta Zeta sorority

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: Geneva, Switzerland

Dream Job: President of the United States

Favorite quote: “Character is a journey, not a destination,” source unknown

Benjamin Feld

Running for: Student Advancement

Major: Marketing

Platform goals:

– Get students more involved in organizations on campus.

– Spread awareness of Student Legal Services by increasing advertising.

– Continue to chair the Student Leadership Development Board and work with student organization leaders.

Involvement:

Served on Allocations Committee

Member of Sigma Chi fraternity

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: France, Italy

Dream Job: CEO of a Fortune 500 company

Favorite quote: “And in the end, it is not the years in your life that count, it is the life in your years,” Abraham Lincoln

Jacob Keaton

Running for: Student Advancement

Major: Exercise physiology

Year: Sophomore

Age: 24

Platform goals:

– Spread awareness of Career Services.

– Spread awareness of the Student Leadership Development Board.

– Set up different workshops, lectures and peer-to peer help to advance student leadership on campus.

Involvement: Six years in the Army

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: Madagascar, to go diving off the coast

Dream job: Work with the president

Justin Jeffery

Running for: Community Affairs

Major: Political science

Year: Junior

Age: 21

Platform goals:

– Connect the campus to the city through focus groups and meet-and-greets with the mayor.

– Help create a positive image of college students through community service projects.

– Implement Police Review Board, as an outlet for students to voice their concerns.

Involvement:

Kent Interhall Council President

Member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity

Student ambassador

Co-chair for student homecoming committee

A destination you’ve never been but always wanted to go: Egypt

Dream job: President of a university

Favorite quote: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams,” Eleanor Roosevelt

Bethany Taylor

Running for: Community Affairs

Major: Middle childhood education

Year: Sophomore

Age: 20

Platform goals:

– Establish a relationship with Kent City Police, so Kent State students acknowledge their rights.

– Have the city noise ordinance revised, and have police clearly state how exactly one can violate it.

– Actively persuade local businesses to be open to the public 24 hours, especially popular study areas for students such as Starbucks.

A destination you’ve never been, but always wanted to: Australia

Dream job: A pilot for a famous person’s private jet

Quote: “A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction,” Rita Mae Brown