Students elected Josiah Mendoza and Molly Miller of “Show Me Mizzou” as the next president and vice president of the Missouri Students Association. The pair won 69% of the campus-wide vote in their campaign against Samantha Hole and Daniel Daugherty of “Maximize Mizzou.”
Students elected Josiah Mendoza [Sigma Tau Gamma] and Molly Miller of “Show Me Mizzou” as the next president and vice president of the Missouri Students Association. The pair won 69% of the campus-wide vote in their campaign against Samantha Hole and Daniel Daugherty of “Maximize Mizzou.”
Additionally, students approved the $0.48 fee to fund Associated Students of the University of Missouri student fee and its permanency, with 76.67% of the campus-wide vote in favor of the fee.
Mendoza said winning the election was enormously humbling.
“I’m very, very grateful for this opportunity, and I know Molly and I both are just excited to get to work because both of us are hard workers,” Mendoza said. “We’re going to get to work on formulating our cabinet and collaborating with the speaker of the [MSA] Senate and current presidents and any incoming office holder to ensure we are entering this process smoothly.”
The Show Me Mizzou campaign platform focuses on increased transparency between the MU administration and student body. They want more mental health services for students, improved diversity, equality and inclusion resources, improved interpersonal relationships between students, and easier access to administrators.
Miller said her and Mendoza hope to move into an exciting year “of a lot of things and a lot of policies.”
“We need to make sure that we move as a team,” Miller said. “We don’t want others or the administration to try to stop some of those ideas and policies because [it’s] important to students that we have a voice and that it doesn’t get quiet.”
