The Renew BU slate has won the election for the 2010-11 academic year’s Boston University Student Union executive board, after a two-week race between the BUnited, Renew BU and unofficial Greek slates, the Student Elections Commission announced Monday.
Speaking at the George Sherman Union Link to about 50 students, the Student Elections Commission announced that with a total student vote of 3,515, Renew BU won with 2,159 votes for College of Arts and Sciences junior Arthur Emma for president, 2,111 votes for CAS junior Daniel Ellis for vice president and 2,144 votes for School of Management junior Noble for treasurer. Renew BU had no candidate for the secretary position, which BUnited’s Jenna Kreyche, a CAS junior, won with 1,875 votes.
“I’m happy,” Ellis said. “I don’t know what to think. It seems unreal right now.”
Emma, whose slate received about 60 percent of the vote and nearly double the votes of the other two slates combined, said he is excited with the vote totals and the prospect of next year.
“I’m a little shaken up, I guess,” he said. “I’m just really humbled by all of this and I really appreciate all the support and enthusiasm.”
The BUnited slate, sans Kreyche, was a distant second, with Taylor Riley, an SMG junior, garnering 676 votes for president, CAS sophomore James Boggie 739 votes for vice president and SMG sophomore Joseph Nangle 700 votes for treasurer.
“We wanted to win and I know we could do well but at the same time there’s so much drama and so much stress,” Riley said. “I’m relieved it’s over more than anything.”
BUnited’s Boggie said Renew BU ran a solid campaign, and that he enjoyed the process and was glad to have created competition.
“They had a much more visible, much more noisy campaign,” he said. “I’m happy I did it. I think it was important that somebody ran.”
The unofficial write-in Greek slate, consisting of College of Communication sophomore Julian Jensen with 497 votes for president, CAS freshman Stephen Tanico with 463 votes for vice president, CAS sophomore Marisa Feehan with 457 votes for treasurer and COM sophomore Alex Vaccarino with 489 votes for secretary, said being a write-in slate made the campaign difficult.
“I had an interesting time running. Probably not the funnest,” Jensen said. “Maybe Arthur Emma and his lovely cabinet will invite me to help them. I hope they do. I wish all the candidates good luck.”
Emma said his team is eager to move forward from the campaign.
We’re going to apply this same enthusiasm to Union next year,” he said.
Stay tuned for further election coverage.
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