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The Rice Thresher
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by Esther Sung Thresher Staff
Will Rice College junior Alice Hill was chosen as president. Hill said she ran for president because she wanted to help build Martel's legacy. "Once we get more of a basis for our college and get the structure down and get the college community built up a little more, we'll figure out what we need to do," Hill said. One of the main reasons I ran [for president] was because it's just so exciting to have a new college and not have any past to follow or shoes to fill. "It's such a unique situation at Rice - tradition is a huge part of the Rice culture and Martel obviously doesn't have that yet," she said. "It just leaves so much up to the new students at Martel and to the executive committee. We're going to discover what needs to happen at Martel as we go along." Baker College junior Luis Rodriguez was elected vice president, Baker sophomore Ebony Wreh is the new treasurer, and Brown College junior Matt Ludwig and Will Rice junior Chris Glass were chosen as secretaries. Will Rice sophomore Meghan Miller was elected Martel Student Association senator. Election speeches were given on March 14 in Sewall Hall, Room 301. Martelians voted March 21-23 during lunch at a table in the Student Center. Members of the Martel Founding Committee who were not running for positions administered the elections and counted the votes. Rodriguez is the only founding committee member to be elected as an officer in the new parliament. "I felt that all the work I had done over the past few months should be carried out at least through the new school year," Rodriguez said. "I wanted to make sure that everything that we [the founding committee] intended didn't get too distorted by the new government." The founding committee will be dissolved as soon as the constitution is ratified, scheduled to happen on April 4, and its role will be taken over by the new government. Martel has been having weekly lunches in Ray Courtyard of the Student Center so that Martel members will be able to get to know one another. Members of the founding committee have also held three general meetings for new Martelians to share the founding committee's vision with them and to talk about how the new college will be governed. These lunches and meetings allowed candidates to gather the signatures necessary for their petitions. Rodriguez said the roles of vice president and president will be slightly different than at other colleges. "The [president] and the vice president are sharing duties that most vice presidents [at other colleges] have, like room jack and committee selection," Rodriguez said. "The roles aren't quite clear yet - we're trying to figure that out. We're trying to lessen the load on these upper positions so that they can focus on specific things without trying to spread themselves too thin."
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