As MSU’s undergraduate student government continues efforts to fill its representative seats, the time has come for the election of new leaders as well.

During business meetings Tuesday and Thursday, ASMSU representatives will elect chairpersons and vice chairpersons for both the Academic and Student assemblies’ new sessions.

Student Assembly chairperson Kendall Sykes said whomever wins a chairperson spot will inherit a significant amount of responsibility with students.

“They are the new voice of the student body,” Sykes said.

Assembly chairpersons mediate weekly assembly meetings and sit on committees in Academic Governance.

Three chairperson positions - chairperson, and vice chairpersons for internal affairs and external affairs -are available on each assembly.

Candidates give their campaign speeches in the meeting and answer questions from assembly members for 10 minutes. The assembly then holds a closed-session deliberation about the candidates and makes its decision. The victor is selected by a simple majority vote.

While any undergraduate MSU student who pays the $13 semesterly ASMSU tax can run for Student Assembly chairperson, a student must be a member of the Academic Assembly to run for Academic Assembly chairperson.

“By and large, it’s somebody who has been in the organization for a year looking to move up,” Academic Assembly chairperson Charles McHugh said. “Occasionally, you’ll get a radical from another student organization or the student body.”