Fellow UC representative Eva Stojchevska ’15 agreed with Nasrollahzadeh’s assessment, stating that “she really transformed the SRC ever since she took on that task.”
Nasrollahzadeh, a Detroit native, lives in Pforzheimer House and is concentrating in molecular and cellular biology.
HOT MEALS, AIR MATTRESSES AND THE HONOR CODE
Like Nasrollahzadeh, Goyal started as a freshman representative on the UC, serving on both the finance and education committees. In his first year, he worked on what he calls his “three big projects”: the honor code and honor council legislation that has now been adopted by the Faculty Council, the UC’s air mattress program, and, perhaps his proudest achievement, the shift of Annenberg hours from 7:00-10:00 a.m. to 7:15-10:15 a.m.
“If my kid goes to Harvard thirty years later,” Goyal joked, “I’m going to tell him: If you have a 9 a.m. class and you’re getting hot breakfast after that, I absolutely did that.”
Another accomplishment, Goyal said, has been to increase enthusiasm for the Education Committee, which he has chaired for the last two years as a representative for Lowell House.
Nasrollahzadeh said that under Goyal, the committee has been able to produce tangible results.
“In the past, the Education Committee was considered to have very theoretical ideas,” Nasrollahzadeh said. “Dhruv Goyal mobilized, revolutionized the Education Committee. I’ve never seen it be so fruitful in my three years.”
Goyal said his achievements include the HBX project and two referenda on this year’s ballot, one for a section size cap and one for the return of the difficulty score on the Q Guide.
Goyal is a Mumbai native concentrating in economics and would, he said, be one of the first international heads of the UC. Stojchevska, who also serves as co-president of the Woodbridge International Society, which endorsed the ticket, characterized Goyal as having an unprecedented “level of care and passion for everything.”
“He takes everything that he commits to very seriously,” she said. “That’s definitely a vote of confidence, because I know that he will take that level of commitment to a higher level if [the ticket] wins.”
DAY ZERO
If elected, both candidates promise to resign from their roles in other organizations on campus, setting a “precedent” for future presidents.
“The UC is our top priority and we understand the role, responsibility and time commitment that it has,” Goyal said. Moreover, he added, resigning would prevent any potential conflicts of interest, as the UC funds several of the student organizations they are a part of.
The pair also promised to hit the ground running if elected.
“If we are elected on November 20,” Goyal said, “[that] night we party, and then November 21 we start. We start absolutely off the bat.”
The Ventfull app would be rolled out in the “initial stages” of their presidency, and conversations with administrators about alumni donations would begin well before the pair officially assumes the presidency.
“You can’t wait until January,” Nasrollahzadeh said.