Student Senate holds elections

by: Paige Cole

With protests in Wisconsin and riots in Egypt, the political scene at Lycoming College seems pretty tame. However, this year’s Student Senate elections are shaping up to be exciting races.

The Student Senate elections for both Executive Board and Class Officers are set to take place this month. The Executive Elections will run from noon to noon. Each class will have separate elections.

Elections for the Class of 2014 will be held March 23 through 25; Class of 2013 will be held March 27 through 29, and finally the Class of 2012 will run from March 30 to April 1. Voting for all races will be open from noon to noon on the final day. Executive elections were held earlier this month.

Last year voting took place on Orgsync. However the college chose to disband the program this year, so Student Senate needed to find an alternative option.

“Elections will be very simple this year,” Samantha McConnell, Senate executive vice president, said. “You can electronically vote on Webadvisor. There will be an e-mail sent out with more details but when you sign into the students’ menu on the right hand side there is a section for student elections.”

Aside from the new voting format, elections are a bit different this year. In the past, students were only allowed to run for one position. However, the new set up changes this rule.

According to McConnell, “If students wish to run for both executive council and a class officer position if they do not win the executive position, they may do so because of the different dates of the elections.”

Results will be verified by ITS and then sent to Bob Hamell, Senate president, for executive elections and McConnell for class officer elections.

McConnell and other members of SSLC are looking forward to this year’s elections.

“I really think this is exciting,” McConnell said. “This year has been the first in a long time that there is a race for every single executive position. There are some great candidates and great competition.”

The candidates for executive president are McConnell, Matt Ruth and Tyler Breech; for executive vice president: Jenna Miller and Sarah Cox; executive treasurer: Daniel Angstadt and Krystalynn Andersen and for executive secretary: Stephanie Robinson and Robert Rinaldo.

Candidates for Class of 2014 officers include: Matt Ruth for president, Maralee Fye for vice president, Zack Brower for treasurer and Lauren Robertson for secretary.
For Class of 2013: Sarah Cox, Brandon Sellers and Jenna Miller for president; Robert Rinaldo for vice president; Krystalynn Andersen for treasurer, and No Candidate for secretary.

For Class of 2012: Denyse Walters for president; Rebecca Weaver and Angelika Maryniak for vice president; Lindsay Stern and Juliann Anderson for treasurer and Kari Lenz for secretary.

If you have any comments or concerns contact McConnell at her campus e-mail or Student Senate at senate@lycoming.edu.