By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Editor in Chief

Doors and sidewalks throughout campus will soon be littered with campaign signs and slogans, and that means only one thing: Students’ Association elections are here.

Students will decide who will represent them in the Student congress as SA elections begin next week.

Elections for class senators, academic building representatives and residence hall representatives will be Tuesday and Wednesday.

Students can vote in the Campus Center from 11:30 a.m. to

5 p.m., and if necessary run-off elections will be Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Since every undergraduate student at ACU is a member of [the] Students’ Association, participation in congress is important,” said Sarah Pulis, student body vice president.

Petitions signed with the signatures of students of the same classification or residents of the same academic building or residence hall as the candidates were due Thursday by 5 p.m. Each candidate was required to attend a meeting Thursday, in which the election rules were laid out.

If elected, students must attend weekly Students’ Association meetings Wednesdays.

The first SA meeting will be Sept. 17. Senators and representatives also will be required to work at least 30 minutes each week in the SA office.

Despite what some critics may say about SA, Pulis, who serves as the SA elections chair as part of her vice-presidential duties, said it is more than a resume builder.

Pulis said the benefit SA brings to the ACU community is to act as a voice for students to correspond with the administration to ensure their views on various issues are known.

Pulis pointed to a public forum SA sponsored in the spring when news broke about the Mobile Learning Initiative, where students were able to ask questions about the initiative.

Pulis said this year SA would work to mirror beneficial forums like the one last spring and actively serve as a voice for students.

“The goal of SA is to be able to express concern and ideas to the administration,” Pulis said.