DormCon Elections, April 21st!

[Yo Shavit]

Hi everyone!

*TL;DR DormCon elections are happening, join us and help improve dormitory
life!*

The 2016-2017 DormCon elections will be held on Thursday, April 21st, at
7:30 PM in W20 PDRs 1&2 (on the 3rd floor).

We're electing the following positions:

President
Vice President
Treasurer
Secretary
Housing Chair(s)
Dining Chair(s)
Risk Management Chair(s)
Judicial Committee Chair(s)

For the the unfamiliar, DormCon is the governing body of all dormitory
residents. We on DormCon exec spend our time meeting with administrators,
representing students' concerns and desires, and developing policies that
improve student life at the institute. A few of the issues we'll be
addressing this coming year: renegotiating *the dining plan* contract,
helping design a *new* *dorm*, modifying dormitory* security* policy,
improving the *party registration *process, rebuilding a dormitory *judicial
system*, and ensuring a smooth transition for the new Vice President for
Student Life.

*Descriptions* of each position's duties *are at the bottom* of this email,
(even more official descriptions can be found in Article IV
<http://web.mit.edu/dormcon/docs/constitution.pdf>). *All dormitory
residents* (freshmen, sophomores, and juniors) are eligible to run for all
positions, with the exception of current officers of the UA, IFC, Panhel,
and LGC. For many positions, *no prior experience is required* in student
government.

I encourage you to come and run for something. This is a tremendous
opportunity to affect the lives of those around you and the future of MIT
student life. It's also a lot of fun: the people are great, the problems
are interesting while also close to home, and you'll learn a lot about how
MIT works.

In order to have your candidacy announced before the meeting, you must *email
your platform to the DormCon Secretary* (dormcon-execer at mit.edu
<dormcon-secretary at mit.edu>) no later than *8 PM Tuesday, April 19th*.

If you have any questions about any of these positions, please shoot me an
email or email dormcon-execer at mit.edu.

Together, with your help, we're going to Make the Dormitories Great Again!
Yours, Yonadav Shavit
DormCon President

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*Position descriptions:*

*Note*: all positions are held for a term of 1 year, starting and ending on
June 1st.
Also, all positions are a part of DormCon exec, and thus have an impact on
all DormCon issues, regardless of whether they are part of their position's
description.

*President*
The DormCon President is responsible for *carrying out the* DormCon
*Constitution* and *overseeing all decisions* of DormCon. The president is
also responsible for presiding over *all DormCon meetings*. Lastly, the
president is DormCon's *chief representative* to all external bodies, MIT
or otherwise.

*Vice President*
The DormCon Vice President is officially charged with *assisting* and
*supplementing* the DormCon *president*, and de facto has *many of the same
powers and requirements* as the president. In addition, the Vice President
directs many of the* large projects* of DormCon.

*Treasurer*
The DormCon Treasurer keeps track of *all things monetary*. They are
responsible for creating a *budget *for the semester and updating it
throughout the term.

*Secretary*
The DormCon Secretary *maintains all the official records* of DormCon. This
includes *taking minutes* at meetings. This also involves publicizing
DormCon events, including sending out reminder emails about meetings. They
are also in charge of DormCon's online presence, include its website, its
shiny new *wiki*, and its Twitter account.

*Housing Chair(s)*
The Dormcon Housing Chair position is responsible for *all things housing! *In
recent years, the chairs have been in charge of issues like *dorm security*
, *gender inclusive housing, changes to facilities,** and dorm storage*. We
elect up to 2.

*Dining Chair(s)*
The DormCon Dining Chairs are DormCon’s main advocate on *food and dining
related issues*. They are responsible for representing both dining- and
non-dining dorms in discussions related to both house and retail dining.
This coming year, they will be the students *in charge of renegotiating the
dining plan*. We elect up to 2.

*Risk Management Chair(s)*
The DormCon Risk Managers oversee all aspects of *safety in dorms and in
dorm life*, especially on matters of policy surrounding *alcohol, drugs,
party-registration, party-safe training, bystander intervention, and the
institute's Good Samaritan policies.* This position allows you to influence
the Institute's approach to risk management, and to make it easier for
students to do fun things, while also being safe and responsible. We elect
up to 2.

*Judicial Committee Chair(s)*
The DormCon Judcomm chairs *interpret the Constitution and run elections*.
They also *chair* DormCon's *judicial committee*. We elect up to 2.
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