As the sole team contending for ComSoc executive this year, Team BML said they have mixed feelings about running uncontested.

The team consists of Kyle Beaudry, Comm ’14 for president, Dipesh Mistry, Comm ’14 as vice-president (external) and Betty Lu, Comm ’14 as vice-president (internal).

“It would have been more of a thrill and more exciting if it was contested,” Beaudry said.

Despite the lack of competition, the team is still focused on achieving the same goals they set out to achieve.

“We still want to approachable and well-known to the students,” Beaudry said.

The team said they are confident that their peers will acknowledge their leadership based on merit.

“From our personal experiences we have proven ourselves as leaders, if you ask students that know us, they would only say good things,” Mistry said.

“In general we have the experience and the leadership that will be good for next year,” he added.

All three team members have served on the ComSoc assembly, with Lu as Chief Policy and Returning Officer, Mistry as Chief Marketing Officer, and Beaudry as Media and Society Relations Officer and Outreach Commissioner.

Individually, they have served as executives on various Queen’s Commerce conferences or committees.

Beaudry co-chaired the Queen’s conference on the Business Environment Today that reached a record number of delegate applications this past year. Mistry served on Queen’s Leader, Excellence and Development Conference for three years. Lu is currently co-chair of High School Liaison, which works in consultation with the Commerce Office and the Commerce Society to attract more undergraduates to the Queen’s Bachelor of Commerce program.

Team BML stated in their platform that they want to increase transparency and provide more financial organization in the society.

They’re advocating for items such as the growth of the Bursary Program for students attending conferences, a detailed breakdown of the spending of all elected officials, and making the course syllabi available prior to course selection.

“For the past couple of years, the goal has always been similar: looking for more recruiting support and giving commerce students more diverse experiences,” Mistry said.

“What we’re looking to do is to give students more support academically.”

He said he believes that there were decisions made in the past, such as removal of the double-degree option, that didn’t receive enough student input.

However, relaying these ideas to the students has been a challenge, as all three team members are away from Kingston on exchange.

“Obviously it’s difficult to coordinate … here are people speaking on our behalf,” Mistry said, “but we’re trusting our campaign managers and representatives to be the middle man or woman to relay [our ideas] to the students, and I think we selected a good group of people.”