On Wednesday, March 16, the Vanderbilt Political Review (VPR) interviewed the two candidate tickets for the Vanderbilt Student Government (VSG) presidential elections. Deputy Editor-in-Chief Isabella...
On May 22, Vanderbilt Student Government (VSG) posted a statement on Instagram regarding the recent Israel-Palestine conflict. The statement was met with impassioned responses by both supporters and opponents...
It has been several decades since the U.S. political climate was as divisive as it is today. Social media, for example, has fueled an increased polarization of citizens on both ends of the political spectrum. In the 2020 election, 90% of both Republicans and Democrats were “very concerned” that the opposing candidate would create lasting harm to the country, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center. January saw far-right insurrectionists storm the Capitol building. Far-left extremists rioted throughout the four years of the Trump presidency.
Veer Shah and Shun Ahmed have won the Vanderbilt Student Government General Election. The duo will serve as Student Body President and Vice President respectively for the 2020 - 2021 academic year.
The...
On March 23rd, the Vanderbilt Hustler hosted the Vanderbilt Student Government (VSG) Presidential Debate online in lieu of an in-person debate. Over the course of 50 minutes, both tickets answered questions...
On March 20th, 2020, Vanderbilt undergraduates were notified of the results of the Vanderbilt Student Government Primary Elections. Of the four sets of candidates, Veer Shah and Shun Ahmed along with Jared...
VPR has just received word that Frances Burton and Veer Shah have won the 2019 Vanderbilt Student Government Presidential Election.
Burton and Shah faced off against Nico Gardner-Serna and Taylor...
On January 16, Vanderbilt Student Government (VSG) Senator Katherine Petosa introduced a bill entitled the Resolution to Fund the Elect Her Workshop. This bill, sponsored by Sen. Petosa and other prominent...
On Wednesday evening, the VSG Senate voted on a bill that recommends the administration divest from funding private prisons. The vote came at long last after the bill was tabled at the Senate meeting two...
The decisions a chancellor has to make were never the easy ones. As Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos told me, “if everyone agreed, the decisions wouldn’t get to me.”
Nevertheless, I wondered...
Many Vanderbilt students have thought in passing, “What does the VSG President even do? Why does it matter who we elect?” Few people outside of Vanderbilt Student Government know details of the organization...
