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“You can laugh at me, a lot of people have, but I want to become the future United States President,” said Warsaw Community High School’s newly appointed Indiana Association of Student Council’s State President Cody Shafer when asked about his future plans.

Shafer, who served last year as the Northeast District Representative for the IASC, was the second ever Kosciusko County student to run for IASC and be elected into the student leadership organization. According to sources, the first Kosciusko student to be elected into the organization was Jeff Morgan, Wawasee High School class of 1984 who held the position of council secretary.

Though this is only the second year WCHS has sponsored students through the organization, the school will have two students serving on the council including Shafer.

Blake Schritter, a sophomore at the school, will be stepping into Shafer’s previous position as Northeast District Representative.

As Northeast Representative, Shafer was placed in charge of schools within Kosciusko, Elkhart, Wabash, Miami, Huntington, Whitley, Noble, LaGrange, Steuben, De Kalb, Allen and Adams counties. His new position will place him in charge of all six Indiana districts. Shafer’s duties will include raising student participation and membership, and helping council members build valuable skills that can be used within their own respective student councils and in future job experience.

According to Shafer, he and Schritter will both be representing their school in a series of meetings in downtown Indianapolis at the Indiana Convention Center. There they will learn to develop their leadership skills through a series of guest speakers and activities. Shafer hopes to increase membership so that all schools may one day be represented in the IASC.

“One of my main goals is to increase membership through the Indiana Association of Student Councils,” stated Shafer. “Through this I’m trying to achieve [membership] from as many schools as I can get. It doesn’t only benefit the student who comes but their whole council, which entitles the whole school to be benefited.”

Shafer hopes that the experience he gains from his presidency will help him in his future political goals. The ambitious new IASC president hopes to one day enter the senate and work his way towards a slightly more expansive presidency. According to Shafer, he plans to one day lead the nation as the President of the United States. Until that day, Shafer will continue his work as junior class president at WCHS and as IASC’s state president, working toward making a difference one school at a time.