Giving info from an NP isn't especially trustworthy at all. You could just as easily be a bear making up info as a human trying to catch bears.
Student council presidents do have a significant amount of power from the extra kill, extra lynch vote, and bear counter. But even if we could elect someone who is provably town, all the use we would really get is the bear counter. It's way too early to warrant needing a kill in addition to the lynch (unless someone has a lead other than kill investigations on who could be a bear?). An extra lynch vote isn't useful either, since I doubt bears outnumber humans enough to have a chance to swing the vote significantly.
Compare that to what could happen if we elected a bear, or someone else malicious, to student council president. They would get an extra kill, probably meaning another dead human. They would be able to lie about the bear counter, which we only have one of, and we'd have no way to check.
Given all this, I don't think we should elect a student council president until we have either a person we can truly trust or a reason to need the president's powers.
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