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Yalies who live on campus, eat in dining halls or participate in student organizations have been or will be impacted by the work of Katrina Landeta ’10.

Serving terms as both Yale College Council and Freshman Class Council representatives, Latenda has made her presence felt at Yale. Not only has Landeta chaired the YCC’s gender-neutral-housing committee, but she has also worked for better dining options, served on the YCC’s outreach team and coordinated CommUNITY week.

As a leader, Landeta says she is set apart by her involvements in multiple organizations beyond the YCC. Landeta is president of Yale’s Filipino club, and she also holds positions within the Asian-American Cultural Center, IvyCouncil, the Women’s Center and The Politic.

Landeta said her involvements in these organizations make her an “insider and an outsider to the YCC,” giving her an understanding of the needs of student groups on campus.

“YCC should work not only for students but also with them,” she said.

For this reason, as YCC president, Landeta said she would engage students in both the creation and maintenance of different campus initiatives.

To accomplish this goal, Landeta said she intends to allow students to present ideas for the Student Development Directive directly before the YCC. She would also implement weekly updates to keep students aware of important YCC initiatives.

Still, Landeta said one of her greatest priorities is to build a stronger community at Yale, especially given recent acts of hate speech on campus. Whether fighting for students favoring gender-neutral housing or soliciting ideas for campus initiatives, Landeta’s projects emphasize a close connection between students and the YCC, she said, which would only continue should she be elected president.

“It is essential that we have student input on each and every project we have,” she said.

Andrew Brannan ’09, who has worked with Landeta as a fellow YCC representative from Branford College, said that as a Branford representative, Landeta has been committed to keeping Branford students informed about YCC projects.

“She’s often volunteering to take the lead on projects,” he said. “She’s always attending the Branford College Council meetings … [and] always listening to the interests of Branford and acting on them.”

While her commitment in other campus groups may lessen if she is elected president, Landeta said her experience will allow her to meet the needs of all campus organizations.

“My involvements show how much energy I have for Yale,” Landeta said. “If I were to take on the position of president, I could focus all that energy on one role and on the needs of every group on campus.”

“That only comes with having experience in those kinds of campus groups,” she said.

Landeta hails from Winnetka, Calif., and attended Cleveland High School, where she was junior-class president and director of social events her senior year.

Although he is a film fan so intense that he keeps a list of every movie he has ever seen, Harrison Marks ’10 simply lucked out when poll results for the Student Development Directive indicated that Yalies wanted a DVD library as their top permanent improvement of campus life. But the directive itself was no act of luck.

Marks, the current YCC treasurer, is running for YCC president, and the directive — which he spearheaded earlier this year — is, he said, emblematic of his central campaign goal: increasing input from the student body into YCC activities and giving students a greater voice.

One of the sections on his campaign Web site is entitled “Make Y-C-C About Y-O-U.”

“Student government is there to serve the student body,” said Marks, who thinks the major flaw in the operations of this year’s YCC was the low level of interaction the council had with students. Although the YCC improved greatly this year, he said, it still has a long way to go.

Marks has experience gathering and using student input, he said, as evidenced by his work on the Student Development Directive. A survey he commissioned asked students for ideas the YCC could implement — such as the winning DVD library, as well as an LCD screen showing the positions of Science Hill buses — then polled them to select the winner.

Marks said the initiative represented several firsts for YCC: It was the first time, as far as he knew, that the YCC acted with such transparency, spent money on a project that was not an event and allowed students to have direct influence.

“[The directive] made me realize that there are 5,000 incredible people here with ideas,” Marks said. “How can we possibly think that the 28 of us on YCC have all the ideas?”

In order to encourage students to bring their ideas to the council, Marks included in his campaign platform a Comprehensive Outreach Program. He hopes to organize informal meeting times at which he and other YCC representatives will sit in Thain Family Cafe and make themselves available to talk with students about their issues and ideas. Marks also hopes to create a specific YCC Outreach Committee and a Facebook application for students to air their concerns directly to the YCC.

Marks said he is confident that students would take advantage of the outreach program, but he is not sure exactly what sorts of ideas and concerns students will bring to the table.

“I don’t know what people are going to say,” he said. “I shouldn’t know. I think it’s a good thing I don’t know.”

If elected, Marks also hopes “make Yale less about bookends” — less focused on the freshman and senior experiences.

It is widely expected that sophomore and junior year are not as enjoyable as freshmen and senior year, Marks said, and he wants to change that. His ideas include improving academics for sophomores by adding sophomore seminars to the curriculum and creating special places for sophomores and juniors to gather and mingle.

What sets Marks apart, he said, are his vision, experience and ability to achieve results.

“I can talk just as well as everyone else, but what’s really important is backing the broad goals up with concrete ideas,” Marks said. “I have a track record of getting things done.”

“He shares my philosophy of student government,” said FCC Treasurer Brian Levin ’11, who worked closely with Marks this year. “We have an obligation to get an immense amount of input from the [students we serve]. And he’s someone who can effect concrete results as well as spend time on policy.”

As treasurer this year, Marks said, he played a major role in several YCC initiatives aside from the Student Development Directive — which he hopes to expand into a full committee next year. He organized the Yale Invades Manhattan/Party Train trip this semester and heavily lobbied the administration to allow U-Hauls at the Harvard-Yale football game in the fall. He also served as advisor to the Freshman Class Council.

If he were to be Yale College Council president next year, Richard Tao ’10 would forge a “working relationship” with the Yale administration — something he said currently does not exist.

As president, Tao said he would continue the structural changes that current president Rebecca Taber ’08 put into place this year — initiative-based project teams, for example — and follow the general direction of her tenure. He plans to focus on furthering financial-aid initiatives, improving “community building” and including student representatives on every student-life based subcommittee created by the administration.

A subcommittee that analyzed the possibility of gender-neutral housing, for example — and issue Tao said he is passionate about — did not have a student representative.

“It was outrageous,” Tao said.

He added, “I will push for a seat at the table [for all committees] and from there, I would work towards that working relationship.”

As a YCC representative this year, Tao worked to elicit student feedback on the Yale financial-aid program. Using the data he gathered from a student poll, he submitted a report to the Yale administration that analyzed the data and, after a request from Yale College Dean Peter Salovey, Tao and the committee he was working with ran another student poll.

Tao said, as president, he would continue soliciting student opinion on financial aid and analyze the long-term effects of the current financial-aid reform.

“I’ve met with [Director of Student Financial Services] Caesar Storlazzi five or six times in the past,” Tao said. “We already discussed how we want to approach the thing next year.”

Next year, Tao said he hopes to engage in cooperative discussion with the administration on issues beyond financial aid, something he believes he can do with the necessary finesse.

“I’m not coming into the [Yale College Dean’s Office] and demanding radical change and taking an extreme opinion,” Tao said.

In the past, administrators have sometimes been “unresponsive” to YCC feedback, he said, but his goal would be to work to make the Yale administration more receptive to the YCC’s opinions.

In terms of community building, Tao advocates for gender-neutral housing and gender-binding categorizations on Yale administrative forms — which has a sex selection of only male and female.

He also wants to work with the administration to host more multicultural events for students to become better global citizens, he said.

Having served as political chair for the Chinese American Student Association and member of the Political Action and Education committee for the Asian American Students Association, Tao is also a staunch supporter of cultural issues,

On the Freshman College Council, Tao served as chair his second semester. He worked on examining the Big Sib program in residential colleges and helped start the annual end-of-year freshman address. As part of the YCC, he worked on dining-hall reform and expanding the BRED program — which sends day-old bread from stores like Au Bon Pain and Atticus Cafe to the homeless.

Born in Nanjing, China, he moved to Michigan for schooling. In high school, he was a member of the track and field team, captained the speech and debate team and served on the student government as class representative.

Jarrett Burks ’10 wants to add a personal touch to the office of YCC vice president.

“People can come to me with their complaints as a friend, and I’ll take them to the YCC,” Burks said.

Burks explained that his personable nature, charisma and open ear allow him to take into consideration the opinions of Yale’s large student body.

Burks said his campaign revolves around two issues: greater YCC transparency through works with a lasting impact and greater sense of community among Yale College students.

The ability to pay using Flex dollars should be expanded to include additional shops, such as Gourmet Heaven, Burks said. He also said the meal-plan policy could be used outside the dining halls.

“Shouldn’t you be able to skip breakfast or lunch and take that $5 or $7 [to spend] at Durfee’s or the Thain Family Cafe?” he asked.

Burks also has ideas for academic changes. Yale students should be able to take classes Credit/D/Fail and still count them towards their distributional requirements, he said.

With regards to fostering community, Burks said he felt the response of the YCC and administration to acts of intolerance this year were “meager at best.” Burks said he would put together a grievance board and address these problems before they arose by speaking to freshmen about being open-minded.

“My approach would be a preventive approach with a student-run panel mandatory for all freshmen to attend,” said Burks.

Burks has kept himself busy at Yale with student government, club sports and service. He served on the Freshman Class Council last year, plays club basketball, serves weekly at a soup kitchen and is a charter member of the Yale Black Men’s Union.

“[His] dealing with conflict and problems in a non-traditional way make him a great candidate,” said Casey Gerald ’09, the founder of the Black Men’s Union.

Emily Schofield’s ’09 interests are soap, food and bus rides — not necessarily in that order.

Schofield, a junior and incumbent Yale College Council vice president, has used her results-oriented nature to bring Yale students soap in their bathrooms, better dining-hall offerings and transportation shuttles on Science Hill. She has also served as a Branford College representative to the YCC and a Freshman Class Council representative.

Schofield’s countless hours on YCC have yielded important relationships with Yale administrators and an understanding of the issues that matter, she said.

“You can’t underestimate the power of experience,” she said.

Rather then “reinventing the wheel” with each new project, Schofield said she can continue to build upon the work YCC has already done. While she cares about her own projects — including Community Service Day and New Haven Nights — Schofield said her job is about facilitating other representatives’ initiatives.

To that end, Schofield has helped restructure the YCC, encouraging small-group work to push forward different projects simultaneously.

Looking forward, she hopes to reform Undergraduate Career Services and continue improving dining services.

Tomas Rua ’10, who worked with Schofield on the YCC’s efforts to reform the dining halls, praised Schofield for her ability to facilitate communication and keep track of various projects within the YCC.

“She knows the [YCC] better than anyone,” he said.

Schofield attended Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh, Pa., and is majoring in political science and economics.

On the field — rugby player. During the weekends — DKE member. Off the field — candidate for YCC treasurer.

Will Alexander ’10 has two years of experience in student government at Yale and hopes to use the relationships he has formed within the YCC to help make the council better reflect students’ input.

His girlfriend and campaign assistant, Claire Leatherwood ’09, said she has seen first-hand how dedicated Alexander was to the various projects he helped plan in the past year as one of Timothy Dwight College’s representative to the YCC.

Alexander said his involvement with the FCC sparked his interest in continuing involvement with student government at Yale.

“I’ve always enjoyed improving student life at Yale,” he said.

In the past year, Alexander said, he has worked toward this end by acting as the YCC liaison to Bass Library.

He negotiated for longer operating hours during reading week and helped establish the library’s new student DVD collection.

Since Yale students pay a $50 student-activities fee, the treasurer should have the most direct responsibility for ensuring their input, he said.

“I hope to release a very simple survey that describes what each organization that receives funding from students-activities fees does and what their level of funding is,” Alexander said. “Then, students could decide to tweak the budgets depending on what they want.”

Alexander attended Kellenberg Memorial High School in Westbury, N.Y., where he was the president of the National Honor Society, captain of the academic bowl team and a member on the varsity basketball and volleyball teams. Alexander is a history major.

Paying homage to Barack Obama’s “Yes We Can” campaign slogan, Jon Wu ’11 has tried to muster support for his candidacy for YCC treasurer by posting a YouTube video titled “Yes Wu Can.”

As a freshman, Wu has already found his niche at Yale: student government. Between the FCC, the YCC, Ivy Council and the Saybrook College Council, Wu said he enjoys the time he spends trying to improve student life.

This prospective African-American Studies major said he has a comprehensive view of student government at Yale.

“I see the big picture of what it means to be YCC treasurer,” Wu said. “Coming from leadership in FCC and then moving to YCC treasurer is a natural transition.”

Fellow FCC member Sabrina Karim ’11 described Wu as one of the hardest-working people she knows.

“He’s always putting the extra effort in by following through, and that’s a characteristic that is needed in a treasurer,” Karim said.

As a YCC representative this past year, Wu said that his favorite project for the YCC was Eli Days, a conference for New Haven public-high-school students to learn more about college admissions. He said that even with his interest in education, the best part of Eli Days was the tangible, concrete nature of the event.

“At the end of the day, the fact that we had instituted something new made it feel great to be part of one of YCC’s great successes this year,” Wu said.

Wu hails from Dublin, Calif., and attended Monte Vista High School in Danville, Calif. In high school, he founded Science Alliance, which paired high-school mentors with elementary-school students and helped them with science and ultimately with science-fair projects.

Abigail Cheung ’11, co-chair of this year’s Freshman Class Council, said she wants to go to the “next level” — the Yale College Council — and will “communicate, celebrate and innovate” if elected YCC secretary this week.

“YCC is just the next level,” she said. “And the experiences I had [on the FCC] have made me really well-suited as secretary.”

As secretary, Cheung hopes to facilitate intercommunication between the YCC and other student organizations like Dwight Hall and the Sophomore Class Council and Junior Class Committee. She also hopes to implement her three-pronged approach to YCC leadership — communication, celebration and innovation — if she lands a spot on the YCC Executive Board for next year.

In order to accomplish her goals, Cheung said, she would send out monthly e-mail updates of YCC initiatives, in which she would advertise the “YCC successes” to the student body. She also hopes to “institutionalize relationships” — which currently do not exist, she said — with various student organizations to effectively plan events, she said.

“There needs to be more collaborations with other Yale organizations,” she said.

Otherwise, Cheung said she has no plans as of yet to change the overall infrastructure of the YCC because it is “pretty well-defined.”

During her tenure as chair of the FCC Communications Committee in the fall and vice-chair of the council in the spring, Cheung has gained experience working with both the student body and the YCC, she said. As communications chair, she headed the advertising of freshman events like the Freshman Screw and Freshman Barbeque. And as vice-chair, Cheung has made it a “priority” to sit in on YCC general meetings every Sunday to provide updates on the FCC. At the weekly FCC meetings, she has given monthly updates on the YCC.

Cheung was born in Vancouver, Canada, where she has lived all her life. She attended Crofton House School and served as school prefect during her senior year for her McDougall House. Cheung will have a radio show next semester for WYBC and currently tutors elementary-school students who are in the English as a Second Language program.

Having served as a member of both the Freshman Class Council and Yale College Council and as a Yale tour guide, Jasper Wang ’10 said he has “in-depth knowledge” of how Yale works, knowledge that would enable him to serve as YCC secretary.

As part of his platform, Wang said he would make better use of the YCC’s Web site — which “has not reached its full impact in any way” yet, he said — and work with student organizations to run monthly student polls to examine YCC efficiency. In addition, he said he wants to work with the Office of New Haven and State Affairs and various Greek organizations on campus to facilitate their communication with the students.

“This could be a big year for the YCC and undergraduate population,” he said, “and though the secretary is not involved in the vision, the secretary has a role of communications … that I can fulfill.”

For the YCC Web site, Wang would host monthly online forums on YCC initiatives and have YCC representatives write blogs “every couple of weeks,” he said.

He said he also will work with ONHSA to examine the current internships the office provides. He suggested that some of the internship programs may not be popular with students and are otherwise “stale.”

Wang said instead of an inter-fraternity council — which was proposed to regulate the fraternities following January’s “Yale Sluts” incident — he would personally serve as facilitator of communication between the houses and the administration. As YCC secretary and a member of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, he said, he would be better able to satisfactorily represent all of the “social niches” that the different houses encompass.

“Though I may not agree with” other Greek organizations, he said, “I do understand them more than the administration does.”

Wang worked on student government in Montville Township High School in Montville, N.J., where he served as school president his senior year. He is currently the Jonathan Edwards College Student Activities Committee chair.

Kristian Henderson ’09 wants to make virtual reality into physical reality.

“YSAC sends out a lot of surveys to figure out what students want to see on campus,” Henderson said, “and I want to make those surveys a reality.”

Although she has never served on YSAC, Henderson already has extensive experience in the field, having organized the 2008 Black Solidarity Conference, which featured a Lupe Fiasco concert and a presentation by TV personality Tavis Smiley.

“In previous years, the BSC conference cost $25,000 to $30,000,” Henderson said. “But this year we raised over $100,000, so I know what goes into planning a large-scale event.”

A fellow BSC organizer, Donte Donald ’09, said Henderson’s leadership skills allowed her to rally her fellow board members to pull off an effective conference.

“She started planning the conference from scratch, and she was still able to hold the biggest BSC conference in Yale history,” Donald said. “And I think she could accomplish the same kinds of things as YSAC chair.”

Henderson said her connections with the music industry and with media giants like MTV and VH1 will also be helpful in planning a successful Spring Fling.

She said she is not convinced of the usefulness of the Social Cup and would like to re-evaluate its relevance to YSAC events.

“I think the Social Cup is an interesting idea, [but] I don’t too much like the spirit,” Henderson said. “Basically what we are suggesting is that Yale students need a competition to be social, but if YSAC events are well planned, we wouldn’t need a Social Cup.”

Colin Leatherbury ’09, co-chair of Spring Fling and Branford College’s representative to the Yale Student Activities Committee, wants to reinvent the YSAC survey and put the student voice back in Spring Fling.

The candidate for YSAC chair plans on abandoning the tradition of a few major surveys in favor of multiple “update” surveys that reflect developments as they occur. For instance, if a performer who was previously too expensive suddenly lowered his or her price, Leatherbury said he would propose sending out a survey to reflect the new option. Ultimately, multiple surveys would prevent any final decisions from being made solely by YSAC members, he said.

“The more information we get, the more accountable we will be to students,” Leatherbury said.

As this year’s co-chair for Spring Fling, Leatherbury said he will bring the experience of planning YSAC’s biggest event of the year to the position of YSAC chair.

“Coming from that background, I actually know what we can do,” Leatherbury said. “I know the exact situation of corporate sponsors and the specific rules that apply to college-sponsored events. Sometimes I feel like I am the John McCain of the YSAC-chair candidates.”

To update the Social Cup, Leatherbury hopes to introduce tangible prizes like a trophy or a meet-and-greet with the Spring Fling performers.

Ultimately, Leatherbury thinks his edge over the other candidates lies in his experience.

“I think I am the only candidate that can say with certainty that I will keep my promises because I know how things are run,” Leatherbury said.

Travis Long ’10 is taking his cues from the 2008 presidential campaign — he is all about transparency.

“Every cent Barack gets, you can trace back to the people who gave it to him,” Long said. “And that is what needs to happen with YSAC-funded events.”

Long’s promise of transparency extends to his goals for Spring Fling as well. He said the musical acts who come to campus should not be determined by the 15 members who sit on the committee but rather by the students themselves.

“It’s your money,” Long said. “You should know what it’s being used for.”

If elected, Long said he hopes to introduce a YSAC-sponsored Special Olympics, in addition to revamping the Fall Show and the Battle of the Bands.

But despite his new ideas, Long said he respects established customs.

“Tradition is something you don’t want to mess with,” Long said. “So I probably wouldn’t alter the Social Cup that much.”

Long thinks his biggest contribution to YSAC would be his ability to inspire fellow members to organize exciting events for Yale. Rhasaan Nichols ’08, who has worked with Long on theater productions, said he is always incredibly dedicated to whatever he does.

“I’ve seen Travis put his whole heart into this campaign,” Nichols said. “And it has been really inspiring.”

Long said that in one word, he would describe himself as “a workhorse.”

Long has not previously held a position on YSAC.

Jon Terenzetti ’10 envisions a world in which every Yalie is affected by YSAC — from the freshman at the Spring Fling to the senior living off-campus.

Terenzetti said he hopes to makes his vision a reality by making the student-activities fee mandatory and increasing outreach to smaller groups on campus.

“YSAC and the YCC are the only organizations with the task of representing the whole student body,” Terenzetti said, “so we need to make sure that we are reaching out to a larger portion of the population.”

Even YSAC’s largest event — Spring Fling — is attended by only 2,500 out of Yale’s approximately 5,000 undergraduates, Terenzetti said. He said he wants to convince students that they have a voice in YSAC decisions by strengthening communication, increasing input from students and fostering a sense of community.

Terenzetti added that he plans on revitalizing the Social Cup — which is designed to increase student participation in campuswide events by awarding residential colleges points for attendance — and using it as a method of reaching out to students who may be neglected by YSAC.

“We can use the Social Cup to raise awareness about YSAC events and increase college bonds,” Terenzetti said. “It could really bring YSAC into a role of closer interaction with a greater number of students on campus.”

Terenzetti is currently Davenport College’s representative to YSAC. He also serves on the Davenport College Council and Ivy Council, in addition to being a member of the Yale Alley Cats.

In running for chair of the UOFC, Matthew Marr ’10 hopes he can add more of a personal touch to the organization’s operations.

“The UOFC is basically a customer-service program,” the Berkeley College sophomore said. “It works between administration and students for funding.”

Marr said he would encourage a closer relationship between UOFC liaisons and the organizations they represent. As a liaison this year, Marr said, he has already implemented such measures, meeting with the organizations that he represents before their applications are reviewed in order to explain constraints and to maximize the funds a group is able to procure.

“If we can tell them that they’re going to get only $50 for food, when they get it, it won’t be a surprise,” he said.

Ultimately, Marr said he sees the chair’s position as a balancing act between this personal touch and an eye for details.

Among the specific projects Marr plans to implement would be a program to reduce printing and publishing costs for groups on campus. Instead of giving groups thousands of dollars for photocopying and publicity purposes, Marr said he would like to see the UOFC set up an account with a specific printing company to reduce costs.

More than anything, however, he said he wants to strengthen relations between the UOFC and the student population it serves.

“It’s a great group, and I wish it wasn’t such a secret,” Marr said. “We do a lot of great things that the campus doesn’t realize.”

Marr hails from Columbia City, Ind., where he attended Churubusco High School. He is majoring in molecular biophysics and biochemistry.

With two years of experience as a UOFC board member, Bryan Twarek ’10 has been planning to run for the chair position all year. As treasurer of the Rotoract Club, Twarek has seen the UOFC’s operations from an outsider’s perspective. And as leader of the UOFC’s capital-equipment program, which provides things like projectors and lights for events, he thinks his dedication to and experience with the UOFC will enable him to make the UOFC a far more efficient resource for students.

“There are a lot of things that need to be simplified,” Twarek said.

Simplifying application procedures, consolidating funding and informational resources and making the organization friendlier are his three principal goals as UOFC chair.

The UOFC’s organizational funding application currently has 30 possible funding categories, while the dean’s office, which oversees them, utilizes far fewer, Twarek said. He said he wants to make the application process easier by eliminating these kinds of bureaucratic complexities.

In addition, Twarek wants to continue revising the UOFC Web site, centralizing funding options and providing more how-to assistance for organizations applying. He said the site’s by-laws are too detailed for campus groups to process entirely. Instead, Twarek proposes a more interactive site.

“If someone tries to put in an amount more than is allowed, the Web site will tell you that this is a problem,” Twarek said.

He also hopes to make interactions between the UOFC and undergraduate organizations more productive by making liaisons more accessible.

“I plan to have times for people to come in to pick up checks, but also to get advice and so forth,” Twarek said. He added that, if there were demand, he would be willing to make liaisons available five nights a week.

It was simple curiosity that led Anne Xu ’09 to become a liaison for the UOFC this year. After encountering financial difficulties with the Yale Classical Society, which she founded, Xu began to wonder how the UOFC really worked.

“I was shocked by the basic logistical things that were not being done,” she said.

Providing organizations with funds in a timely manner and setting a clear agenda are among the things that Xu thinks the UOFC can do to improve. A junior in Calhoun College, she thinks her organizational skills and her dedication will make her ideally suited to the position of UOFC chair.

“I understand that signing a check will affect the whole membership of an organization,” Xu said.

In the past, getting checks signed has not been easy for organizations receiving UOFC funds, she said. Xu said she hopes to expand the one hour per week treasurers have to meet with the chair and also to work with the dean’s office to establish direct deposit for organizations receiving funds. She wants above all, she said, to return the UOFC to its fundamental responsibility: disseminating funds.

“Most people spend more time on special projects,” Xu said. “But we’re letting organizations down by being so focused on those projects.”

The special projects Xu has in mind include the $2,000 and $5,000 events for which any group can apply, which have previously produced less-than-successful events, like last fall’s Cirque du Monde, she said. In a case in which none of the projects seems likely to succeed, Xu proposes that the UOFC reserve the right to withhold funding. She would also like to expand the new capital-equipment program, which provides things like spotlights to groups hosting events with UOFC funds.

Xu hails from Auburndale, Mass., and is a history major.