Meet the Candidates!
President:
Patrick O'Brien - Please someone else run for president
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Vice President:
Kevin Tankersley - I have lots of practical experience in the writing and moderating of missions and the organization of the club, and am prepared to carry on contributing to our admin team in any way I can.
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Treasurer:
Syncere Mason - I already did it for a year so doing it again will be much easier and faster
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Secretary:
Eli Kramer-Smyth - I already never miss a community meeting, and we should really have a secretary. But yeah - I've been with the club for 5 years, going on 6 now, and been a subofficer for most of them. I haven't stepped up to being an officer until now because it is a big step up in terms of responsibilities, but I think that this next year is extremely important for our future and I want to do everything I can to help the club. Being able to do my part in keeping things running, especially since I'm already someone who attends the community meetings in person anyway, seems like the least I can do to help the club that I care so much about. I've been going to the community meetings for years, so I know how to do that much, and those meetings are the main responsibility of the secretary. I want to help keep the day to day things working as best I can to help take some pressure and responsibilities off of the other officers who almost certainly have more important things to be doing with how much the club is going through. We split things across a full board for a reason, and I don't want all of the burden to fall onto too few shoulders.
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Recruitment & Advertising/PR:
Riley Heath - I really care for the HvZ community, and I feel like prioritizing PR will greatly improve our odds of surviving as a club in the difficult times we are currently facing. First off, I would like to make an initiative to design and print some club T-shirts! I have a draft of it, and being in the officer position would give me a lot more flexibility to work directly with budget/distribution questions. Second, while I will only be in the position for the Fall semester, I will have a lot more free time to work on designs and promotional efforts - and generally support other officers and subofficers in helping the club operate. Lastly, I will make an effort to create content specifically geared towards the HvZ Instagram and myUMBC pages, as a lot of successful student orgs really lean on those algorithms for outreach, and my connection to commonvision has taught me a lot about promotional efforts on campus! I have really enjoyed the work I've done in the subofficer position on the art, blaster ban, and achievement committees, and I would love to do more cool design work to get more eyes on our club :D also if i become an officer pim shytskee (our community gnome) will be so very happy with me. snailcat - shytskee for hvz pr fall 2026 lets do it baby
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Web Committee:
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