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Sweet Home High School's Student Newspaper
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The Panther Update, October 4th, 2019
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You're one of the first to see "Elections Are Coming Up. Here’s What Sophmores need to know."
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Elections Are Coming Up. Here’s What Sophomores need to know.
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Once again, it’s that time of year. Student Government Elections are approaching fast, with seats in each grade up for election. Each candidate has gone through gathering signatures from their peers and references from adults as well as setting up political campaign posters throughout the building, and most importantly, preparing and giving a speech to the students of Sweet Home.
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There are nine sophomores running for Senate this year, out of which only 6 will be representing their grade.
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Julie Nisbet
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Julie loves being apart of Sweet Home and loves music and playing guitar. She’s very interested in art and chemistry, and runs track and does Tae Kwan Doe. She’s running since she’s been in the sweet home district since pre-K, and wants to be more involved with what’s going on here at Sweet Home. She aims to make Sweet Home more fun and to make it a better learning environment. Julie did not provide any social media platforms she is campaigning on.
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Roman Haen
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Roman is a hardworking student who likes to work out and hangout with friends. He is a cross country and track runner and does wrestling in the winter. In the long run, he’s running for senate because he wants to run for Congress during his lifetime. He wants the experience of running for senate early so he can get a leg up later in his lifetime. He wants to push student government into giving kids a voice. He believes this school has been putting rules in place for a while now that have been unfair or ineffective, and he wants to work with administration to make a fair set of guidelines for Sweet Home, and give more opportunities to the students here. Roman did not provide any social media platforms he is campaigning on.
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Stephanie (Steph) Brown
Steph is a writer for the Panther Eye. The Eye is not affiliated with the campaign in any way.
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Steph is compassionate about drawing. She’s running for Senate because she has ideas and wants to put them into action. She wants her voice and others’ to be heard when senate. She wants people to be able to get more work done by making new certain branches to the government. Steph did not provide any social media platforms she is campaigning on.
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Megan Gerber
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Megan is a hard-working person who cares deeply for Sweet Home and the community of the school. She’s running for Senate because she wants to be more involved in the school and make Sweet Home an even better place than already is. Her goal as senate would be to open up the courtyards so students and teachers could work and study outside. She also wants to open up the discussion of the school to make sure everyone’s voice is heard and giving out their ideas and opinions. Megan did not provide any social media platforms she is campaigning on.
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Brian Lackie
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Brian finds fulfillment in learning about the world we live in, and aspires of one day becoming a proactive citizen of this nation. He is running for senate because he believes that it’s an opportunity he can take to be connected with school, and to offer insights into his intricacies of government. He hopes to help implement policies that will provide and facilitate a safe learning environment for those who value their opportunities. Brian did not provide any social media platforms he is campaigning on.
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Karina Cole
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Karina is a hardworking student and athlete and hopes to be able to represent the sophomore class in student government. She was encouraged to run by classmates and teachers, and it sounded appealing to her to run and better the Sweet Home community and get involved in the competition between herself and classmates. Her goal this year is to work with her peers and the administration in order to make Sweet Home a better place. She’d like any of her classmates to be able to come to her if they have any comments or concerns that they could bring to the Student Government in order for everyone’s voice to be heard. Karina did not provide any social media platforms she is campaigning on.
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Other Candidates
Taylor Napora, Lindsey Aarum and Ryan Fleck are also running, but did not comment before publishing of this article.
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Author: Olivia Weissenburg
Category: News
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