Name: Montana St. Pierre
Party: Fast and FUrious
Bio: Montana comes from New Hampshire and is currently studying computer engineering. Additionally, he devotes part of his time each semester to study the arts. Outside of class, he is a coxswain for the lightweight rowing team and the Director of Operations for RHLO. He hopes to bring this experience with athletics, residential life and non-engineering departments to the 2019 clss council.
Platform: As specifically a class council, we remain keenly aware of our duty to nurture a sense of community, both within and beyond the engineering class. There often lies question in the blurred lines of where ESC fits into rest of the the student council, and we plan to establish the ESC’19 Class Council firmly in both its independent and collaborative identities. We are fully dedicated to working more closely with the councils of CCSC, SGA, and GSSC, as well as the EGSC for a more well-rounded attempt to bring SEAS into a larger framework for every student.
As your elected student council, we move to integrate more closely the ideals that ESC as a whole has been underscoring, especially mental health and supporting minority student groups’ voices on campus through cosponsoring events with CPS and other groups.
We, as a council, are fully aware of the tenacity that is required of being a junior at Columbia, especially in SEAS, and we truly emphasize the importance of mental and physical health over all other things for every student that we have the privilege to represent.
Partnering directly with organizations that specifically support minority groups, in addition to cultural clubs, offers an essential avenue in manifesting into action our duties within and beyond engineering. It is essential that these kinds of collaborations are understood as regular components of our class council’s responsibility. In order to promote community, we must emphasize diversity in engineering not simply as yet another reiteration to people in said minority or cultural groups, but also to those who do not usually face the challenges or obstacles that accompany being underrepresented.
Some real changes that we are going to set out to implement include (but does not entirely represent):
1. Updated apparel in the Bookstore
2. A more streamlined finals schedule for students
3. A revised peer advisory board as well as an updated Bulletin
4. the BEST Junior Boat Cruise this school has seen
5. More great giveaways (including a subsidization of movie theaters, restaurants, and city passes)
Engineering-specific support, too, remains equally critical. It feels as though engineers are dissolved into the rest of the Columbia community at times when arriving at engineering-specific solidarity would most benefit us, yet at others, we are removed from larger discussions when we would best be served as considered an entity of the whole. Discerning when one case is applied versus the other follows no formula like any good engineer would hope, but it is our job as class council to guide the discussions and monitor these situations as we go in order to get a better sense of our identities and support systems within the Columbia community.
Please reach out to us if you have any further questions, and thank you for your support! Vote Fast and FUrious once again for your class council!
Name: Walker Magrath
Party: Fast and FUrious
Bio: Walker is a sophomore in SEAS majoring in biomedical engineering and minoring in history. His interests include student advocacy as the current 2019 Class Representative, public health and medical devices, and running. Walker is involved on campus as a research assistant at the Bone Bioengineering Lab and Reuther Group, as well as a Columbia world music ensemble violinist, and member of the Biomedical Engineering Society. Walker wants to run for ESC so that he can advocate for the importance of student mental health and continue to spearhead initiatives that promote stronger community on campus.
Platform: As specifically a class council, we remain keenly aware of our duty to nurture a sense of community, both within and beyond the engineering class. There often lies question in the blurred lines of where ESC fits into rest of the the student council, and we plan to establish the ESC’19 Class Council firmly in both its independent and collaborative identities. We are fully dedicated to working more closely with the councils of CCSC, SGA, and GSSC, as well as the EGSC for a more well-rounded attempt to bring SEAS into a larger framework for every student.
As your elected student council, we move to integrate more closely the ideals that ESC as a whole has been underscoring, especially mental health and supporting minority student groups’ voices on campus through cosponsoring events with CPS and other groups.
We, as a council, are fully aware of the tenacity that is required of being a junior at Columbia, especially in SEAS, and we truly emphasize the importance of mental and physical health over all other things for every student that we have the privilege to represent.
Partnering directly with organizations that specifically support minority groups, in addition to cultural clubs, offers an essential avenue in manifesting into action our duties within and beyond engineering. It is essential that these kinds of collaborations are understood as regular components of our class council’s responsibility. In order to promote community, we must emphasize diversity in engineering not simply as yet another reiteration to people in said minority or cultural groups, but also to those who do not usually face the challenges or obstacles that accompany being underrepresented.
Some real changes that we are going to set out to implement include (but does not entirely represent):
1. Updated apparel in the Bookstore
2. A more streamlined finals schedule for students
3. A revised peer advisory board as well as an updated Bulletin
4. the BEST Junior Boat Cruise this school has seen
5. More great giveaways (including a subsidization of movie theaters, restaurants, and city passes)
Engineering-specific support, too, remains equally critical. It feels as though engineers are dissolved into the rest of the Columbia community at times when arriving at engineering-specific solidarity would most benefit us, yet at others, we are removed from larger discussions when we would best be served as considered an entity of the whole. Discerning when one case is applied versus the other follows no formula like any good engineer would hope, but it is our job as class council to guide the discussions and monitor these situations as we go in order to get a better sense of our identities and support systems within the Columbia community.
Please reach out to us if you have any further questions, and thank you for your support! Vote Fast and FUrious once again for your class council!