Uncontested ASB Presidency Goes to Giglio

Junior Spencer Giglio was elected ASB president, junior Brett Smith vice president, junior Olivia Price secretary, junior Lydia Hancock treasurer, sophomore Ethan Sauerberg commissioner of social affairs, and sophomore Tanya Li commissioner of student affairs for the 2016-2017 school year by the student body on March 17.

Next year’s Cultural Diversity leadership position will be filled by junior Simone Epperson while juniors Wayne Hawkins, Nicholas Mediati, and Thomas Caprio will be next year’s spirit commissioners.

Junior Holly Melohn will serve as spirit director.

Most candidates campaigned on social media and by passing out candy during lunch.

While most of the positions and the method used to select students were unchanged, there were a couple of differences: “We created a new position, the spirit director. We also made spirit commissioners an appointed position” said teacher Dino Petrocco.

In the past school spirit was facilitated by a variety of leadership students without a formal designation. Now, the spirit director will be a formal position responsible for that aspect of campus culture. The job of spirit director “has been invaluable, so why not just make it a actual position? And we wanted it to be appointed because we wanted to have some say over who would assume that position because it actually holds a tremendous amount of responsibility,” said Petrocco.

Juniors Spencer Giglio and Lydia Hancock ran unopposed for their respective positions.

“Since I wasn’t running against anyone it wasn’t as stressful, but it was fun to watch everyone else run and see how much people care about Campo,” said Giglio. He hopes to inspire more participation and plans to include “more lunch activities, more involvement in the community, and outreach,” during her term.

Not all positions were filled though the campus-wide election, but rather though appointment. “We thought we could get more people interested if they didn’t have to go through an election,” said Petrocco. 3 different sets of spirit commissioners applied and were considered by a leadership panel that included Petrocco and outgoing ASB president Cameron Atwood.

“I think its interesting because in elections at times may not be the most qualified but this year the people are,” said Lydia Hancock, who believed that each candidate was genuinely interested in their position.