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Hi, I’m Somya, an optimist, and the self-appointed defender of DKU. Seriously, I get defensive when someone talks badly about our school, especially if they’re one of us. I’ll start arguing before I even check if my defense makes total sense. But that’s the thing: I care.
If you really think something can be better here—which of course can exist given we’re still building this place—then let’s fix it now and together. We’re one of the the foundation years, the blueprint batch. What we do now decides what DKU will be remembered for. My goal is simple: to make DKU easier to believe in.
If I get to serve, I want to help every student feel that same pride. The kind where you don’t roll your eyes when someone says “campus spirit,” because you actually feel it. I want us to turn our complaints into projects, our ideas into traditions, and our pride into legacy. I want DKU to be the easiest place for its students to start—to start a change, a project or a dream—and the most difficult to give up on it.
I’ll bring optimism, energy, and an irrational amount of enthusiasm. I’ll bring humor when things get messy, and patience when they get political. But most of all, I’ll bring belief—the kind that spreads.
Because this is DKU.
We are DKU.
And I want everyone to mean it.
Hi, I’m Boyuan (Bernard) Huang from the Class of 2028.
I’m majoring in Economics, but I also have broad interests in philosophy, languages, and mathematics.
I’m applying for the Student Leadership Board (SLB) because I want to take part in shaping DKU’s student self-governance in its second year. The first cohort has done a remarkable job laying a foundation and establishing communication between students and administration. Building on that, I wish to make SLB a trusted, responsive, and effective body, where students naturally turn to when they feel unheard, confused, or wronged, rather than just an organization visible during elections or select events.
To achieve this, I plan to focus on strengthening engagement and accountability with our campus community through three initiatives:
1. Institutionalized feedback system & town halls: Establish an anonymous online opinion box where students can share concerns and vote on issues they care most about. I also want to expand on current townhall events and turn them into recurring, structured events where SLB representatives present progress on voiced issues, discuss top-voted concerns with administration, and invite open dialogue from community members.
2. Transparency updates: set up a monthly newsletter in which SLB reports all its progress, activities, and agenda from the past month to students.
3. Board Resolution Tracker: create a page under the previous opinion box system, where students can see live progress on resolutions introduced to the SLB, track their status, and comment on them before voting sessions. This allows students to directly engage with the decision-making process that SLB is making on their behalf.
My vision is for SLB to build a live platform where all students can have their voices heard regarding their welfare and needs, so that DKU can be transformed into a university with a strong community culture and live up to its promise of educating students as informed global citizens who can make a tangible impact in their future fields and communities.
