Ben Bertin News Today

Every application put before Winchester City Council planning officers was permitted this week, with one being withdrawn.

At around 2:50 p.m. on Feb. 4, Team ERA—Elisabeth McHarg, ArtSci ’23, Ryan Chen, Kin ’23, and Alicia Parker, ArtSci ’24—asked to be removed from the AMS elections ballot.

The candidates making up team TBD are counting on passion, not experience, to win students’ votes in the upcoming AMS election.

AMS executive candidate teams ERA, KMV, and TBD went head-to-head in a debate in Theological Hall before polls open on Feb. 6 and 7. It was the first-time teams debated in person since 2020.

After years of uncontested elections—the last contested being in 2021—there’s a tight race for the lead executive positions of Queen’s largest student government, the AMS.