StuCo election results were announced on April 30 for student body and class positions. Juniors Jibran Khmous and Enoch Wang were elected student body president and vice president and Yageen Alhadj was elected treasurer for the student body.
“It feels great, really, to have the trust of the students behind me,” Khmous said.
Khmous’ idea of leadership is one he believes will make things better for students at MHS.
“[The kind of leader I want to be is] really, the fun one, and just to make everything more relaxed and one people can trust, where they can voice their ideas and see those ideas implemented in their daily life,” Khmous said.
Sophomore Sophia Hoeme was elected secretary, in the only contested race in the student body, earning more votes than junior Evan Jackson.
“I was very excited and happy because I’d worked really hard,” Hoeme said. “I put a lot of work into my video and my essay and all of my posters.”
Hoeme has served as the president of the class of 2027 for the past two years.
“I really learned how to delegate and give things off, and how to be a good leader, and not just power hungry, and just how to communicate effectively with a large group,” Hoeme said.
Students casted their ballots for the election digitally during Advisory on April 30. Many Advisory classes complained that campaign videos were having a hard time loading, but according to StuCo sponsor Dustin Duntz, the technical difficulties had very little impact on the results of the election.
“We got just a very similar number of votes to what we got last year at the same time, and I don’t remember there being any problems last year, so it doesn’t seem like it made a big difference,” Duntz said.
Although StuCo officers haven’t yet met to discuss event ideas for next year, many new ideas have been bounced around.
“Enoch [Wang] and I are looking at doing an Olympics club again,” Khmous said. “You know, we usually have Club Volleyball. We want to turn that into two weeks of just events against clubs that have an Olympic-style thing where we can crown each one with gold medals or not.”
Khmous also wants to spice up the life of students, when at times school can become monotonous.
“One thing we really wanted to do was design for holidays, get everyone into the spirit, because after you get into the rhythm of school, it gets boring,” Khmous said. “So if we were able to make it different some days, to get people out of that repetition and make it more fun, relieve the stress of all that, that’s our plan for next year.”
