After announcing 14 vacancies in a 38-person Senate and postponing select elections, VSG filled every Senate seat for the 2023-24 academic year. The results for the postponed Hank House and MLC elections were released in an email sent to students on Oct. 9, while others are yet to be announced. For the 2021-22 and 2022-23.
VSG President Sam Sliman and VSG Vice President Kendelle Grubbs, both seniors, announced proposed changes to the organization’s structure and publicized VSG’s expenditures since 2020 in an email sent to the undergraduate student body on Aug. 28. During their campaign, Sliman and Grubbs ran on a satirical platform that included dissolving VSG. The pair also.
Maria Ressa, an internationally acclaimed journalist who was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for exposing government corruption and human rights violations in her native Philippines and for defending free and accurate speech worldwide, called on the Vanderbilt Class of 2023 to seek truth and facts despite the “toxic sludge” of misinformation manipulating social media.