{"id":450877,"date":"2026-09-29T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450877\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:56:08","slug":"first-years-elect-2-representatives-to-sg-assembly-the-daily-texan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/450877\/","title":{"rendered":"First-years elect 2 representatives to SG assembly \u2013 The Daily Texan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"First-Year<\/a> <\/p>\n

First-Year Representative winners Everett Eti\u00e9 and Aarnav Bansal pose for a portrait inside of the William C. Powers, Jr. Student Activity Center on Monday, Sept. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n

Everett Eti\u00e9 and Aarnav Bansal will serve as UT Student Government\u2019s first-year representatives for the 2026-27 academic year. The Election Supervisory Board announced election results Monday in the William C. Powers, Jr. Student Activity Center auditorium after voting closed Sept. 23.<\/p>\n

Freshmen and new transfer students<\/a> elect first-year representatives to join the Student Government legislative branch, where they can serve on committees and vote on bills on behalf of their first-year constituents.<\/p>\n

These representatives will be sworn in at the SG public assembly on Tuesday, Oct. 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Everett Eti\u00e9<\/p>\n

Business honors freshman Everett Eti\u00e9 campaigned largely through social media, posting Reels to his nearly 4,000 Instagram followers and shared a Google Form for potential voters to share their concerns and ideas. Eti\u00e9 also won the annual Gone to Texas video contest for his video where he discussed his experiences as an out-of-state student from Louisiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c(I\u2019m) most looking forward to seeing where we can make an impact, seeing where we can really change UT the best we can, with the opportunity that we (have) and bringing light to other UT students,\u201d Eti\u00e9 said.<\/p>\n

Eti\u00e9 said he wants to be sure to make realistic promises, citing the desires of many students to expand seating at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. He also mentioned ideas like implementing portable charging stations across campus and improving facilities in Gregory Gym.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to help make UT feel smaller by creating more opportunities for first-years to connect,\u201d Eti\u00e9 wrote in his candidate statement<\/a>. \u201cI want to explore ways to make navigating student organizations and their application processes less overwhelming for students already balancing packed schedules. Most importantly, I want to listen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aarnav Bansal<\/p>\n

Aarnav Bansal, another business honors freshman, said he took an alternative route to his campaign. Bansal said he did not post any physical media of himself, focusing instead on social media and talking one-on-one to first-year students. The out-of-state student from New Jersey said he devoted hours daily to talking with first-years during the campaign period, trying to understand the issues they cared about.<\/p>\n

\u201c(Students) don\u2019t care about my opinions and my thoughts; they care about how I can best represent them,\u201d Bansal said. \u201cI wanted to be the best representative for them, and that starts with talking and understanding their problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bansal called his campaign \u201cThe Bridge\u201d and said he wanted to focus on building relationships among students and creating opportunities for them to share their concerns. He mentioned creating clearer communication channels in freshman dorms to resolve issues such as air conditioning.<\/p>\n

Bansal said joining SG has always been his \u201cNorth Star,\u201d and he hopes to run for an executive position in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to do something where I can amplify people\u2019s voice, because I\u2019ve learned over the years that I have an adeptness at empathizing, understanding and then using my speaking abilities to amplify people\u2019s opinions and thoughts,\u201d Bansal said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First-Year Representative winners Everett Eti\u00e9 and Aarnav Bansal pose for a portrait inside of the William C. Powers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-450877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}