ABOUT ME

I began school here as a member of the class of 2018. Yes, so I started my freshman year in the fall of 2014. I think that means I'm one of the most senior juniors around. 

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I took a three-year leave of absence to join the Israeli Defense Forces as a combat soldier. Honorably discharged, I returned to Princeton to discover the problems of 2014 have remained the problems of 2019. Since 2014, candidates of various levels of seriousness have entered the race, with platforms consisting of more or less the same issues: mental health, loneliness, care for independent students, sexual misconduct, meal swipes, transparency, etc. Five years' worth of Presidential candidates have all tried to push the same agenda, in the same way, with nothing much to show for it. Independent students still can't get to the grocery store - USG has had five years to figure this out!

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This got me thinking, why don't we take a differnet approach? What sort of pressure has worked on the administration in the past, and on what issues? What unifies the entire student body? Then it hit me: there is a power vacuum at Princeton. University financial decisions are dictated to the student body top-down, under the fair assumption the student body will accept whatever decision was made, in whatever way it was made, sight unseen. The student body should have a voice in bread and butter issues, and USG should be that voice.