House Leader Sign-Ups

Hey guys! So, we've decided to integrate a new idea into our house system- house leaders!

House Leaders will effectively be like Resident Advisors in a college dorm- there will be two for each house, one for each dorm, meaning that each house will have a male and female leader.

If you become your house's leader, you will have the following jobs:

1. Doing occasional room-checks to ensure maintenance standards, health guidelines, and Foresta's code of conduct are upheld 
   
2. Responding to dorm resident inquiries about the dorms, the school, activities, clubs, etc.
3. Acting as a conflict manager to issues between house members
4. Hosting, advertising, and managing house activities
5. Facilitating a constructive conversation between Foresta staff and faculty and Foresta students
6. Informing maintenance and institution heads of any issues with the dorms or residents
7. Ensuring the health and safety of dorm residents through surveillance and maintenance of house common areas and hallways
   
8. Informing staff and faculty of any suspicious activity

In addition to these jobs, each house leader will have the following benefits:

1. A special house leader-only bedroom that is twice the size of regular resident rooms and guaranteed to be external-facing with a minimum two windows (unless requested otherwise, internal-facing rooms may be supplied to house leaders with light sensitivity)
2. Direct contact with staff and faculty
3. A monthly stipend, amount TBA upon hiring
4. Experience in a management position!

In order to be a House Leader, you must be aged seventeen or older with a GPA minimum of 3.25. Those who are older than seventeen but have the mental capacity and appearance of someone younger than that age are not qualified. You may not have any prior infractions in regard to maintenance standards, health guidelines, and Foresta's code of conduct (including but not limited to fights, arson, stalking, purposeful (or in some cases, accidental) harm to another student, etc.) and if you are to gain an infraction regarding any of the above issues while holding the position of House Leader you will be immediately terminated from the position.

If you would like to nominate yourself or another student for upcoming House Leader elections, please post below with your name, gender, and house. Each student requires two nominations to be included in the election. You may only nominate those within your own house. If you are not qualified by the above standards, you will not be included in the elections. Orientation will be held post-election.

Nominations will continue until Saturday, February 27, 2016 or until all eligible options have been nominated.

Good luck!

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Current Nominations

Pyxis Male House Leader
Zakarie Crowe - 4
Graham Lowell - 1

Lyra Male House Leader
Nathaniel Morosec - 3

Serpens Male House Leader
Dirk Cjelly - 1
Lon Huxley - 1
Kyland Ross - 3
Adrian Mackenzie - 4

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Pyxis Female House Leader
Esha Mullur - 2

Lyra Female House Leader
Olwen - 2
Stella Roux - 2

Serpens Female House Leader
Cecilia Vega - 5

Zakarie Crowe has nominated himself to be Pyxis' male house leader.

Zak also nominates Esha Mullur for Pyxis' female house leader, knowing she is eligible.

Upon learning of the various members of his House and their reputations, Sheridan Mace has nominated Zakarie Crowe to be Pyxis' male House Leader.

Vote Morosec for Lyra(M)!

Nathaniel Morosec, an upstanding student from New York is running for Male House Leader of Lyra. The name Morosec goes back generations in the Lower Manhattan area with a tenured history in the NYPD, and aspiring candidate Nathaniel Morosec promises to carry his adoptive forefather's legacy with pride into Foresta Academy.

If elected, Nathaniel promises all students in his jurisdiction a safe environment to study and focus on becoming the most talented Gifted individual they can be, without worry of interference from their rivals in Pyxis or Serpens! Harnessing your Gift is your right and privilege as a student of Foresta Academy, and if elected you can be sure that Nathaniel Morosec is the right man to represent your dorm and keep you safe!

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The Morosec Foundation officially endorses Olwen as their nominee for female House Leader. Additionally, if elected, Nathaniel requests an interior facing room.

Esha Mullur seconds the nomination for herself as Pyxis’ Female house leader.

As an act of good karma, she returns the favour by nominating Zak Crowe for Pyxis' Male house Leader.

Namaste,

Those that don’t know me already, I am Esha Mullur. If I am elected for dorm leader I hope to make Pyxis as accessible a dorm as ever. If your first language is not English, like mine I’m hoping to promote more diversity and accessibility to benefit everyone. I will see to every announcement that passes through the school be translated to a language more suitable and recognizable to you, since I know that some big words can be tough to figure out. In addition, I’ll do my level best to help promote religious practices of every variety and won’t tolerate bigotry or elitism of any kind. If there is wrong doing, I will get to the bottom of it and see to the justice personally.

In addition, I would like to promote as many parties as possible! Especially after big tests or exams since we here at Pyxis celebrate knowledge so much. For those not into big parties, I will try to also set up some smaller events, maybe video game nights? I hope to make your stay here good before you pass out!

(Underneath is the same message, only written in Hindi, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Vietnamese (thanks to helpful campaign partner), and a slightly choppy version of Chinese).

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“Pftt, that asshole’s running for Dorm Leader? Well I know who I’m voting for” Sandra Petric seconds the nomination for Nathaniel Morosec for Lyra’s male house leader.

Sandra Petric also nominates Stella Roux for Lyra’s female house leader, not because she likes her, but because she knows she can get things done.

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Lon Huxley nominates himself for Serpens male house leader despite the age limit.

Lon Huxley has been made aware of female nomination for Serpens and chooses Cecilia.

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Miller nominates Kyland Ross for Serpens Dorm Leader in order to get his room back.

Olwen nominates herself to be the female house leader of Lyra.

After many years spent at the academy, Olwen is the most knowledgeable and well connected person in the running for the position of house leader of Lyra. Her gift for empathy and desire to create a better environment will make Lyra one of the best dorms at Foresta. Any comments or concerns about the state of the dorm will always be taken seriously and whatever problems there were will be solved in a jiffy. 

Vote for Olwen, enjoy the difference.

She also seconds the nomination of Nathaniel Morosec because he makes wicked good OJ. 

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Silas seconds the vote for Zakarie Crowe to be the house leader of Pyxis because he doesn't know of anyone else to vote for.

Estelle Roux is the Lyra Gal for you!

Once elected I, Estelle Roux promise that every male and female in the Lyra dorm will be winners. How will this happen? Quite simple, forward momentum and action. No more sitting around for the Lyra dorm! When something is needed, Estelle Roux will speak up for you! I can personally promise each and every student of the Lyra dorm that you will not have to wait around any more for your problems to get fixed.

Elect Estelle Today and Have Your Voice Heard Tomorrow!

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Some kid that Graham Lowell (Pyxis) has in one of his classes elected him, because let's be honest - this dude is super smart.

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Constantine is not participating.

    "Thank you everyone for joining us today, with me is a student consistently at the top of his classes. A Serpens student who is both exciting and driven. Only a small fire hazard, welcome the oft-sought after Adrian Mackenzie!"
    "Thank you, Stella. And thank you for gathering all these people (even the ones that aren't Serpens. How did they even get the memo?)"
    "It seems somebody let the secret leak," The hostess teased, "But more ears are all the merrier. Tell me, Adrian, what are your motivations for speaking today?"
    "Simple. I'm formally putting myself in the running for the Dorm Leadership position."
    "And what makes you think that you have what it takes to be Serpens' Male Lead?"
    "Well, Stella, I don't think anyone can call themselves a true Serpens if they don't nominate themselves, but I believe that I will best represent Serpens' drive, ambition, and tenacity!"
    "How could we expect to get a clear winner if everyone votes for themselves?"
    "Well, everyone gets two votes, right? That means all you ladies out there know exactly what to do." Adrian leaned forward, granting the interested group a genuine smile. Or a politically genuine one, at least. "Or, who knows, maybe someone out there will play Sparrow."
    "Right. So, we have some interesting history here of your stay at Foresta Academy, Adrian. Some minor and not so minor infractions to school policy in your past. Would you care to say anything about those?"
    "You know, my power may not be very beneficial. It's downright hazardous, even to me. So, I cannot promise a total avoidance of disaster, or even a strict adherence to this code of conduct, but given how many of us are so volatile, I hardly think that's a fair stipulation. What I can promise is that I will fight for the rights of the students, for their voices to be heard, and I will face the challenges set before me like a true Serpens! By conquest!"
    "So, who are you voting for in the women's angle?"
    "Hm? Who's running?"
    "Er, Cecilia Vega is running, but so far no one else has qualified."
    "Cecilia, then!"
    "And for any Lyra student listening in, please remember! Estelle Roux is the Lyra Gal for you!"           



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Cecilia Vega for Serpens Lead

Commendable though your ambitious natures may be, none have the experience to compare with Cecilia Noelle Vega del Toro in matters of administrative duties and judiciary actions. Trust in a qualified individual to speak in the interest of your needs and organize dorm-wide events.
With a history in family politics and business, you can be assured of an efficient and effective female leader in Vega, a family that has provided great resources to Foresta Academy to ensure the highest form of education and services are available to all students in attendance. 

"I swear fair and equal treatment to all students! JUSTICE IS BLIND! SO AM I!"
if you vote against me just remember that my family pays your tuition




As return of good favor, Cecilia supports Adrian for Serpens Male Lead

I, Dirk Cjelly, nominate myself.

yeah....

for Serpens

vote for me if you want to I guess.

Cecilia Vega is my nomination i don't really know anyone else and Cecilia Vega's campaign speech was pretty good. 

Constantine actually just figured out that his roommate Adrian seems to get things done, so he's voting for that guy.

NOTICE:

The end of nominations are being pushed back to 

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Good luck in your campaigns, and godspeed in the elections!

Kyland would vote for Stella but they're not in the same dorm.  He therefore nominates himself because he is concerned for both his and Miller's safety but also wants that nice room.  

Casper nominates Kyland Ross because Kyland paid him.

Adrian Mackenzie is dissatisfied with the way his dorm has been voting. But is generally accepting of the reasons behind them, "I only wish I'd gotten to Casper first. Kyland doesn't even need three votes to qualify."

Willow nominates Cecilia Vega for the house of Serpens. Mainly because she doesn't want to be House Leader. She also nominates Adrian Mackenzie on random reasoning; she once knew someone named Mackenzie that was nice. She hopes that he has the same quality because of his last name.

NOTICE:

Nominations are officially over!

Please go vote in your house elections!
Lyra Female Elections here, Serpens Male Elections here