College Council

College Council is the student government organization at Williams. Its website is http://wso.williams.edu/orgs/cc.

Structure

Ordinarily led by two co-presidents, it includes student representatives of each class, neighborhood, and first year dorm. Council also has a Treasurer, MinCo representative, Secretary and representative from each neighborhood's governance board.

Spring 2008

Officers:

• Co-president: Peter Nurnberg '09
• Co-president: Jeremy Goldstein '09
• Treasurer: Rachel Levy '09
• Secretary: Emily Deans '09

All-Campus Representatives:

• 2009: Sarah Moore '09
• 2010: Thomas Rubinsky '10
• 2011: Emanuel Yekutiel '11
• MinCo: Curtis Flournoy '11

Neighborhood Board and At-Large Representatives:

• Currier: Janay Clyde '10
• Dodd: Narae Park '10, Petya Miteva '10
• Spencer: Toni Kraeva '09, Kieth Butts '09
• Wood: Jon Prigoff '08, Rachel Ko '09

First-year Representatives:

• Armstrong: Lane Wang '11
• Dennett: Tasha Chu '11
• Mills: Joseph Kiernan '11
• Pratt: Brian Shepherd '11
• Sage: To be determined '11
• Williams: KK Durante '11

Fall 2007

Full year positions also served in Spring 2007

Officers:

• Co-president: Kim Dacres '08
• Co-president: Morgan Goodwin '08
• Treasurer: Peter Nurnberg '09
• Secretary: Remington Shepard '08

All-Campus Representatives:

• 2008: Diana Jaffe '08
• 2009: Rashid Duroseau '09
• 2010: Elizabeth Brickley '10
• MinCo: Stephanie Kim '10

Neighborhood Board and At-Large Representatives:

• Currier: Vince Powell-Newman '10
• Dodd: Narae Park '10, Andrew Goldston '09
• Spencer: Toni Kraeva '09, Jon Galinsky '10
• Wood: Jon Prigoff '08, Rachel Ko '09

First-year Representatives:

• Armstrong: Lane Wang '11
• Dennett: Peter Huang '11
• Mills: Muhammad Liaqat '11
• Pratt: Brian Shepherd '11
• Sage: Emanuel Yekutiel '11
• Williams: Justin Routt '11

Responsibilities

College Council's three most important functions are:

• Giving students a voice on campus issues.
• Responsibly and fairly funding over 150 student groups and various campus events.
• Providing a starting point for student initiatives to improve the campus or college programs.

CC also appoints all students to the student faculty committees. These selections take place in the middle of the spring semester. For a list of committees, see the CC website's list of committees. For students interested in applying for committee positions, please read the guide for writing a good self-nom.

Elections

College Council elections for the Spring 2008 term will occur February 14-15. Results are available at: College Council Spring 2008 Election Results

Running

Self-nominations will be due February 7; they can be sent to ephelections (at) gmail. The campaign period will be from February 8 to February 15, when the election period itself will end. The officerships, year-long offices, and semester offices are all up for grabs in Spring elections.

Voting

The election will be conducted using the BigPulse electronic election system.

• Everyone will receive a link to his/her electronic ballot via his/her Williams.edu email address.
• This election will use Instant Runoff Voting (IRV). This means that in races with more than two candidates, voters will be asked to order the candidates by preference.
  • If any candidate gets more than 50% of the first-choice votes, that candidate wins.
  • If no candidate gets more than 50% of the first-choice votes, the first-choice votes that went to the candidate who did worst will be reallocated to their second choices. This process will repeat until a candidate has won with more than 50% of the vote.

Projects

College Council works on projects suggested by the representatives or members of their constituencies, and has assisted in the success of such projects as bringing Ephporium to Spring Street and the Motorcoach service.

• In the spring of 2006 College Council reps accomplished the projects listed here: Stuff CC has done.