During the Fall Semester, the Food Services Initiative has been working on enhancing the student eating experience in exciting ways! The Food Services initative is led by Musashi Shabazz and Alison Lihanda. Other representatives on this intiative consist of Alexandra Rhee, Joseph Lee, and Ellie Gottheimer. Our team has been exploring new snack and drink options at the COOP, diving into distributors to potentially bring in new items such as Gatorade, Pirate’s Booty (heheh), Clif Bars, seaweed, and bakery items. We’ve also started the conversation about implementing digital IDs at the COOP, aiming to make transactions faster and more convenient. We also hope to plan Fun Food Friday during January, a way for students to be able to order food from local restaurants during lunch. With these initiatives, we hope to continue to make school dining, fresh, fun, and flavorful as always. 

The STAR is a very important initiative on student government. The initiative leader is Soham Bafana and the other members of STAR are Tyler Pinniger, Liam Silverstri, and Evan Wang.  The STAR’s mission is to focus on how to improve every student’s academic experience. In the past STAR has adjusted the midterm and exam schedule and has published the STAR document to outline academic regulations.

The Athletic Engagement works to support our student athletes by encouraging out student body to become more involved and informed about our athletics. This initiative is Co-led by Vir Juneja and Adesola Afonja. Currently, the athletic engagement initiative is working with the Athletic Department to have more student engagement at games this season including the remainder of basketball games this season. The main way we are working towards this is by scheduling variety games to occur earlier than usual and hopefully even during a last period of a school day. This will be a difficult process but we remain hopeful!

The tech initiative strives to fix and combat and technical issues that the student body faces. We have been directly responsible for unblocking numerous social media sites, have posted forms on MyDE, as well as staying in constant communication with the Tech Department and the Communications Office. We are currently working on digital coop ids, publishing our informant newsletter, and improving our website. If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to initiative head Steven Cui or representatives Jack Boghossian and Nicholas Bevilacqua.