YCSC Elections Postponed

Freshmen and Sophomores Await Council Representation

Complications in the implementation of the new banner system in the Office of the Registrar have delayed the completion of official class rosters forcing the postponement of the YCSC freshman and sophomore class elections. The elections, originally scheduled for Thursday, September 25th, will be held after the holidays.

The main problem was the omission of transfer credits and yeshiva credits in the new system. As a consequence, many students received improper class standing assignments. “In the previous system,” explained Melvin Davis, Director of the Office of the Registrar, “transfer credits were kept in a free form entry. The delay was caused when we brought the transfer credits from the old system over to the new one. This switch required electronic editing, which takes time.”

Dror Barber, Director of the Canvassing Committee, commented, “The elections are a two or three week process including the collection of signatures, the elections, and the tabulation of votes. With the amount of time needed for the elections, and the holidays quickly approaching, we were forced to postpone the elections until after the holidays.”

Though last year’s elections were pushed off a couple of days, this is the first time that the elections were delayed for a prolonged period of time. “It’s very frustrating,” remarked Sruli Tannenbaum, YCSC president. “The system that was implemented with the objective of helping the students has impeded the election.” Mr. Tannenbaum also expressed his distress with the uncooperative nature of the Office of the Registrar. “We went to them a month ago and they kept telling us to wait. This is a problem that could have been solved in a week had they put in the effort, according to their own estimates.”

Positions available for both the freshman and sophomore classes are president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer. The names of the candidates, for all positions, have not yet been released by YCSC.