Student Body, Class Presidents Share Goals

Karn Kaura ‘24 was elected student body president for next year. He’s currently the junior class president and wanted to run because “there’s a lot of issues that exist in the school, particularly [with] diversity and equity, but also smaller issues with lunch and school schedule.” Kaura plans on asking “all the people who ran and won for Forum in all the grade levels to make a list of [plans] that they ran [on]. I think that gives me a baseline point in order to understand what people actually voted for and what people actually care about.” He also wants to “create an impact in the dayto-day lives of the students… there’s a lot of divisions that exist in this school and tackling these divisions is the way to go about increasing that school culture.”

Sam Hardy ‘24 was elected as the senior class president for the upcoming school year. Hardy says,“I’m excited for the year to come and I’m really excited to work with everyone else in Forum and make things happen. I think the past few years have been very productive on Forum especially, this last year has been productive.” One of his goals is “to shape the year in a way that people will miss Blake, will have a fun time during the year and it will be a memory for them that’s not just their friends but also Blake, the community that we’re in.” Hardy is very excited to help plan events like Defend the Den and the grade retreats to keep everyone connected to the community.

Cole Eckes ‘26 was voted the sophomore class president with the hope of bringing the student body more transparency regarding Forum. “I wanted to help the class out,” he says. “A lot of people say that Forum doesn’t really do a lot. Over the last year, I had not become aware of any action that had happened. I didn’t even know they had a column in the newspaper, so I wanted to build the transparency that Forum had been working on. I wanted to make the students more aware of what happens.” Eckes also wants to impact “how the students view their government, because it seems pretty negative right now. [I] want to make sure people know that [Forum] does have the power to get things done.”