Meet candidates for senior class president and vice president

West Side Story: Why are you running for class president? Young: I’m running because I want to use my leadership skills to help the whole class and improve them as well, and I’d like to challenge myself to speak in front of a bigger crowd, because I have a lot of experience doing communication but I’ve never presented for such a big audience and I want to challenge myself to do that. Why...

West Side Story: Why are you running for class president? Ince: I am running because I think it’s a great opportunity to represent our school and our senior class because I think this year we have a really special and a really big senior class that has already had a lot of accomplishments and will continue to have a lot of accomplishments into the future. Why should people vote for you? Because I feel li...

West Side Story: Why are you running for class president? Kouba: I’m running because I feel like I represent a wide spread of people and I feel like I can bring a good time to graduation and spread the positive vibes. Why should people vote for you? I think people should vote for me because, like I said before, I feel like I represent a lot of people, like I know the peeps of West High ...

West Side Story: Why are you running for class president? Koch: I’ve had a really great high school experience and I want to give back and show appreciation to all the people that have helped make that experience really good. I also tore my ACL, and so I knew that not being able to do sports, I might want to do something with my time and I think this is a really good outlet for actually workin...

West Side Story: Why are you running for Vice President? Cantrell: I was interested in it ever since I heard that Khushi [Kapoor] and Nina [Elkadi] were running before last year, and I heard that their speeches were really good so I kind of wanted to do what they did. Why should people vote for you? People should vote for me because I’m into school spirit and … I’m really interested ...

West Side Story: Why are you running president? Prescott: I just thought it’d be fun, just a new experience. Why should people vote for you? I feel like I’m a pretty good guy; I’d give a good speech. How bad can I be?

West Side Story: Why are you running for vice president? Greenlee: I’m running because I feel like it’d be a pretty cool opportunity for both Will and me to be the representatives of our class. Why should people vote for you? I think people should vote for us because we’re pretty funny guys for the most part, and hopefully, that would make our speech at graduation pretty memorable for e...

West Side Story: Why are you running for vice president? Wagenknecht: I’m running for vice president because I wanted to try something new before I graduated high school and break out of my comfort zone. Why should people vote for you? I think people should vote for Deniz and I because we represent the student body more as a whole. I know some people that are running only represent fractions o...

West Side Story: Why are you running for class president? Polyak: I am running because I want West High to have the best graduation it possibly can this year. That would include having really well-prepared speeches. I really like speaking in public and feel like I have some good things to say, and I have some good experience with giving similar speeches, and … I just really want a good experien...

West Side Story: Why are you running for vice president? Reid: I want to get more involved in our class because our class is really involved, and I want to be a part of it. I want to get involved and I really care about my class. Why should people vote for you? I’m organized and … I will take it seriously. I’m interested in helping  … I want to make a difference in our class....

West Side Story: Why are you running? Klutts: I’m basically running because I want to improve my skills of talking in front of large crowds. My goal in my future is to be able to be more involved in Dance Marathon at Iowa and have an exec position and I know that I will have to talk in large crowds there, and I need to get over my fear somehow, so, might as well do it now.   Why sh...

West Side Story: Why are you running for vice president? McCaffery: Do you want like … the real reason? Rae put me on the ballot; she just signed me up. Why should people vote for you? I don’t know. I have no idea. What did Rae say? I want Rae to win.

West Side Story: Why are you running for class president? Olson: I mean it was really just a spur of the moment thing. If anybody knows me, they know that I just like to do the most absurd things. And then I was like ‘you know what?’ and me and Patty were talking about it, kind of as a joke, but then we were like ‘nah, let’s actually do this.’ We just think it’ll be fun and it’ll ...

West Side Story: Why are you running for class president? Handoo: So me and my friend Maddy have wanted to do this since like sophomore year when we found out that we could, and we thought that’d be really fun and we saw Nina’s speech last year that was recorded and we thought it would be really cool.   Why should people vote for you? I think I’ll actually make a difference �...

West Side Story: Why are you running vice president? Sunderland: Because no one in the arts department really ever runs and I want to have a chance to represent the underrepresented and give them a say.   Why should people vote for you? Because usually the people who are chosen are popular and play sports and just have an ‘in’ with the popular group and no one from the underrep...

West Side Story: Why are you running for vice president? Sami: I want to run for class vice president because although their main priority is to focus on graduation, they do many other things and I just want to be part of that and bring change ... our class can have the best change and the best year overall.   Why should people vote for you? I hope to bring change to our class and ...

West Side Story: Why are you running for vice president? Duong: I’m running to represent all of the groups at West High. I feel like, for this class especially, we have too much focus on certain groups, and there are many underrepresented groups at West High and I would like to share their voice and share their opinions in my speech and introducing a teacher, that would represent them as well, and...

West Side Story: Why are you running for class president? Conrad: You see, I personally believe that I’m better than everybody else. So I personally believe that I’m just better than everybody else and I really think that this is a good way to showcase that.   Why should people vote for you? Because I’m better than everybody else....