Michael Raine
News Reporter

With only one candidate running for each of the two Humber Student Federation Vice-President positions at Lakeshore, students will have a simple yes/no choice starting next week.
The 18-year-old candidate for VP Administration is first-year community and justice services student, Karlie Fisher.
Second-year international business student, Deniero Bartolini, 24, is running for VP Campus Life.
The pair said they are running as a team and are not competing with each other.
A majority of “no” votes for either candidate would leave the position vacant and create a surplus of unpaid salary for HSF.
The positions pay an $11.54 an hour during the summer based on a 35-hour work week and $20.19 during the school year based on a 20- hour work week.
“If there is no Vice President Administration for Lakeshore, there will be a lack of student voice for services and all the things they want to be different in their school,” said Fisher.
“Nobody knows what they want more than students and if there isn’t any student speaking for that, then there is no change.”
Likewise, Bartolini said if there is no of VP Campus Life at Lakeshore, students “should be prepared to take buses to North Campus” for events.
HSF Executive Director, Ercole Perrone, said if the candidates get rejected, the other three executives and full time staff would develop a plan over the spring and summer that will be ready for September.
“As soon as September begins, we’ll open nominations again for a byelection and try to fill those positions in the fall.”
If the positions aren’t filled, Perrone said the unpaid salary would be redistributed to HSF services.
“We would make a formal proposal to our board of directors requesting that the unused portion of those salaries be redistributed to bursaries or an investment in the food bank,” he said.
“It would be a student decision, not an administrative decision.”
The VP Campus Life at Lakeshore and candidate for HSF President, Bryan Tran, said the reason there aren’t more candidates is because maybe HSF didn’t “market or advertise for the specific VP positions as well as in the past.”