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Show Manila School holds student party elections By CINDY LLOYD Manila Elementary School has held its first student council elections elec-tions this year. Fourth grade teachers Shari Duff and Signe Sandholtz, decided to pattern the I school election to the general 1 election of the United States government, including voting on Nov. 6, our national election day. All third through sixth grade students were eligible to register to vote. There were eight nominated teams running and after the primary it was narrowed down to i two teams. "Representatives" and i' "Senators," were elected to fill j student council seats as well as a President and a Vice President. Qualifications for students run-nine run-nine as representatives were that they must be in good academic standing, qualified by a teacher's j signature, and they must behave appropriately, which means no more than one visit to the principal's prin-cipal's office since the. start of school. Students running for senator I positions must also have a teacher's signature of good academic stan-i stan-i ding and must have good behavior ! with never being in the principal's i office at all. Presidential and Vice Presidential nominees had the same qualifications as the senators. The elected members of the school student council consists of i the president and vice president, there is one senator from each ' grade level and representatives from each grade level based on that ! grades' population. ' One ' representative for every thirty-five students. ; Candidates received their parents ' permission and provided their own campaign materials. Any posters larger than posterboard size could not be hung until students had bought extra space by doing some sort of service for the school. Also PA time had to be bought with school services. All candidates worked hard on their campaigns, making posters and campaign buttons with gum and suckers attached to them. ! The school convention and ! i primary were held on Oct. 18. Only 1 registered voters were allowed to attend. Issues for the campaign included hallway discipline, auditorium discipline, fund raising and school clubs. Fourth grade students were ' the registrars and trained fourth grade students fed the registrations into a computer. Elected as student council president was sixth grader, Becky Prince. Some of Becky's goals as president are to establish school monitors for the halls, lunchrooms, ' and assemblies. Also Becky would like to see some school clubs started up. Student council vice president was Amy Iverson also a sixth grader. Amy said she felt more assembly discipline was needed as , well as school cross guards for s safety. I Manila school teachers felt the children participation was extremely ex-tremely good and that the whole experience was very educational as well as fun. I S ; Becky Prince, a sixth grader at Manila Elementary, was elected president of the ' student council last week. |