What are the most important issues facing VP Internal next year?

A lot of different opinions have surfaced on campus lately…. The VP Internal has to find common ground to connect students via events, regardless of their other interests. You need to bring people together, make them work together, even have fun together, so that we get that unity back on campus, and get a more integrated student body … I think the biggest challenge is going to be uniting the community while also preserving the diversity.

Frosh underwent a few changes this year. What do you think of the recent reforms? What changes would you propose for next year?

What I didn’t see [in this year’s changes] was a follow-up component for the Frosh leaders. I think it’s very important that, if you’re going to make Frosh shorter and focus more on the orientation aspect of it … there should be more stress on the Frosh leaders to be good mentors. We need a strong leadership training for them to introduce them to this new role … We also need to have SSMU put resources in place that will allow for a strong follow-up component. So say that, first semester, frosh leaders have to be available to their students on a monthly basis, talking about different issues that first years face. 

What kind of events do you have in mind to bridge the difference between students with events?

In terms of events, I don’t want to abolish the big party events. I think they’re a tradition and I don’t think we should get rid of things like Four Foors or Frosh, but I would also like to see more events that involve McGill students doing something together. For example, I was thinking about getting students together and painting a mural on one of McGill’s walls, so that basically a wall at McGill is dedicated to the students. We need a fun project to get people working together in a creative way to leave that lasting imprint on the university. Not only would this help students feel like they’re an integral part of the university, but they would also get to paint alongside people they wouldn’t necessarily be talking to, and explore the student culture a little better.

If you were a superhero, what would you superpower be?

The first thing that comes to my head is to read minds, just because I love to know what people are thinking and what they want.