After weeks of planning and campaigning, the results have finally been announced. At exactly 6 P.M. on September 30th, the election commissioners exited the Student Union, results in hand, and declared the winners.
Now, the 10 senatorial hopefuls who didn’t get more than 50 percent of the vote, will compete in a runoff election starting today and ending at 5 p.m. this Wednesday.
After the results were announced Wednesday, KnightNews.com was able to speak with a few of the candidates, including William Lively, a co-leader of the BAMF ticket, who did not win his seat.
He expressed disappointment, but said that he was “happy for the others who won”. For the future, he didn’t reveal many plans, except to help out other BAMF members who are a part of the 42nd Senate.
We were also able to talk to Chris Hanley, who went unopposed for seat 2 in the College of Medicine. Although he was happy for himself, he explained that he was shocked.
“I don’t really have a reaction right now” Hanley said. “I’m shocked that the other ticket got the first seat, and Reggie [a member of the Unite Ticket] didn’t get it.”
As almost everyone had left, KnightNews.com caught up with Graham Austin, who ran as an independent in the College of Sciences. Even though he was disappointed, he found some positives from the whole experience.
“It was fun, and I learned a lot,” Austin explained. “It was a great experience running for myself, instead of campaigning for others. I knew I had no chance of winning outright, but I pushed it into a runoff. I got my name out there and made a dent.”
We also learned that Graham plans to run for the Senate Leadership Council in the future.
Stay tuned for updates on this week’s runoff elections.
These are Wednesday’s results in more detail:
Amendment 1:
Yes – 4,611 votes (59.36%)
No – 3,157 votes (40.64%)
Amendment 2:
Yes – 5,555 votes (72.93%)
No – 2,062 votes (27.07%)
Amendment 3:
Yes – 6,899 votes (91.56%)
No – 636 votes (8.44%)
Amendment 4:
Yes – 5,839 votes (78.83%)
No – 1,568 votes (21.17%)
College of Arts and Humanities
Seat 1: Marla Spector – 63.9%
Michael Dris – 36.1%
Seat 2: Samantha Schroeder – 56.2%
Lauren Stockner – 43.9%
Seat 3: Ryan Dougall – 69.8%
David Barratt – 30.2%
Seat 4: Joshua Miller – 58.8%
Fernando Soto – 41.2%
College of Business Administration
Seat 1: Michael Weiss – 51.1%
Jeremy Tellor – 48.9%
Seat 2: Samantha Friefeld – 53.7%
Sean Barakett – 46.3%
Seat 3: Jennifer Rionda – 53.5%
Kyle Schumacher – 46.5%
Seat 4: Cabot Brown – 50.6%
Kaila Nichols – 49.4%
Seat 5 (Runoff): Sarah Bishop – 43.5%
Michael Jacobs – 41.0%
Patrick Ryan – 15.4%
Seat 6: Jean-Pierre Gilbert – 52.5%
Alan Hardman – 47.5%
Seat 7: Daniel Wynick – 53.3%
Jonathan Mitrick – 46.7%
Seat 8 (Runoff): Jason Bryant – 46.4%
Kyle Lazernik – 44.2%
Glenn Matlin – 9.4%
College of Nursing
Seat 1: Megan Dennis – 100%
Seat 2: Laura Baker – 100%
College of Sciences
Seat 1: Jordan Land – 51.7%
Kristie Afonso – 48.3%
Seat 2: Jamie Kaplan – 60.1%
Amanda Nilsen – 39.9%
Seat 3 (Runoff): Darren Kaplan – 44%
Gabrielle Motto – 34.3%
Adam Kobler – 21.7%
Seat 4 (Runoff): Heather Kuhla – 41.5%
Rob Enslen – 37.3%
Shawn Gage – 21.2%
Seat 5: Jazmine Rodriguez – 57.7%
William Lively – 42.3%
Seat 6: William Lusk – 51.8%*
Ashley Sikand – 48.2%
*Pending judicial appeal
Seat 7 (Runoff): Tyler Smith – 44.1%
Alessandra Araujo – 34.8%
Graham Austin – 21.1%
Seat 8: Christina Thomas – 60.5%
Ettel Feinberg – 39.5%
Seat 9 (Runoff): Kevin Wolkenfeld – 37.7%
Seth Rosenthal – 37.6%
Jason Kelly – 24.6%
College of Education
Seat 1: Samantha Needleman – 54.3%
Stephanie Piotrowski – 45.6%
Seat 2 (Runoff): Jessica Price – 43.2%
Katie Celano – 39.2%
Stephanie Simms – 17.7%
Seat 3: David Comolli – 51.8%
Colton Tapoler – 48.1%
Seat 4: Alyson Lipensky – 50.147%
Laura Smith – 47.485%
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Seat 1: William Fernandez – 61.9%
Spencer Ledgard – 39.07%
Seat 2: Christopher Cates – 55.3%
Ryan Schilling – 44.6%
Seat 3: Brittany Ryals – 58.26%
Clifford Lore – 28.93%
Emanuel Vargas – 12.8%
Seat 4: Patrick Stauffer – 58.5%
Nathan Shea – 41.4%
Seat 5 (Runoff): Andrew Pope – 49.7%
Christopher Anderson – 37.99%
Joshua Burbridge – 12.25%
College of Graduate Studies
Seat 1: Vinit Todi – 66.13%
Spencer Zeman – 33.86%
Seat 2: Brett Ambrosini – 57.9%
Marcus Bagnell – 42.1%
Seat 3: Richard Skandera – 50.4%
Scott Gardiner – 49.6%
Seat 4: Christina Willis – 54.7%
Kyle Trager – 45.3%
Seat 5: Zachary Haber – 59.6%
Prabhu Doss Mani – 40.4%
Seat 6: Rafiqul Chowdhury – 54.9%
Sergio Tafur – 45.1%
Seat 7: Cecilia Rivas – 55.8%
Catherine Yoon – 44.2%
Rosen College of Hospitality Management
Seat 1: April Leverett – 56%
Kimberly Wysocki – 35.1%
Erica Adamo – 8.9%
Seat 2: Jereme Pozin – 57.7%
David Wagner – 42.3%
College of Health and Public Affairs
Seat 1: Nicholas Gurney – 51.9%
Dalya Bordman – 48%
Seat 2: Alissa Pifer – 43.3%
Maggie Gilson – 39.3%
Keat Simon – 17.2%
Seat 3: Gary Adams – 100%
Seat 4: Erica DeSanti – 100%
College of Medicine
Seat 1: Fernando Gonzales – 54.8%
Reggie Paros – 45.18%
Seat 2: Christopher Hanley – 100%
Undergraduate Studies
Seat 1 (Runoff): David Lawson – 43.67%
Zachary Bamman – 41.13%
Adam Tow – 15.18%
Seat 2: Jeffrey Popluder – 100%
Undeclared Majors
Seat 1: Eric Katz – 80.8%
Andrew Leshin – 19.16%
