Category Archives: Election News

Welcome to the USG elections center! All election highlights, candidate information, policy changes and election results will be posted here. Class elections start October 1st, 2012.

Spring 2013 Elections – Referendum

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The following referendum is sponsored by Antonia Hyman, the Honor Committee Chair:

Click here for the summary of the changes, and here for the tracked changes in the Honor Code Constitution.

Proposed changes to the Honor Code Constitution:
Article I to be inserted as Section 8
Every year, the Committee shall publish aggregated, anonymous statistics for the last 5 years on the number of students reported to the Committee, the types of violations that are reported, the number of cases that go to hearing, and the respective outcomes of those cases.

Article III to be inserted as new Section 3
In cases of a student writing overtime on an examination or otherwise gaining a time advantage, the Committee will assess a punishment of academic probation and recommend that the student receive a zero for the examination. However, in especially egregious cases of writing overtime, the Committee shall assess a punishment of a one-year suspension.

For new Section 4 (previously Section 3)
Change “Under normal circumstances” to “In all other cases”

Spring 2013 Elections

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Click here for the Spring Petition for USG Office. Be sure to complete the candidate registration form and submit your candidate statement/photo online by 5pm on Saturday, April 13 as well.

Also, check out the responses we got from alumni about their experiences serving in the Class Council!
Azalea Kim ’05, Alex Rosen ’11 (Class Presidents)
Courtney Everson ’03, Rishi Jaitly ’04 (Class Vice Presidents)
Jean Yin ’07 (Class Treasurer)
Meaghan Petersack ’08 (Class Secretary)
Nazanin Saedi ‘03 (Class Social Chair)

ELECTIONS UPDATE: results postponed

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The results for this year’s USG winter elections were scheduled to be tallied and released today. However, there is an outstanding appeal of a decision of the elections managers, and in line with the USG’s elections rules, the results will not be tallied until this complaint has been addressed.

Any questions about the elections process should be addressed to Julian Dean ’13, the Chief Elections Manager of the USG, at USGvote@princeton.edu.