Student Union

Beginning Appeals Account Total: $104,470.76




Student Forum on Sexuality– Dan Savage
Requested: $10,200
Motion: $10,200
Vote: 9 6 1
passes
Follow-up: Rachel

Suspicious of Whistlers – North Carolina Arts Festival
Date of Event: 2/13/2009
Requested: $ 1,271.20
Motion: $ 1,271.20
Vote: 14 1 1
passes
Follow-up: Daniel

Society of Women Engineers– Regional Conference
Date of Event: 2/6/2009
Requested: $ 14,246.34
Motion: $5698.54
Vote: 10 3 3
passes
Follow-up: Peter

WUSLAM – Kevin Coval Poetry Reading and WU-Slam Poetry Slam
Date of Event: 12/4/2008
Requested: $ 1957.34
Motion: $ 1957.34
Vote: 15 0 1
passes
Follow-up: Daniel

We are proud to announce that 1368 people voted in the Fall Senate elections on November 5th and 6th. Last year, only 473 students voted in the midterm elections. This represents a 189% increase in voter turnout.

On behalf of Student Union and the Recruitment & Retention Committee, I want to thank everyone who voted in the elections. This was our most successful midterm election in a long time. We could not have done it without the students.

This past Wednesday, Senate held internal elections for its leadership team. Here are the results:

Speaker of the Seante
Jordan Aibel (senate@su.wustl.edu)

Academic Affairs Chair
Kady McFadden (acaff@su.wustl.edu)

Campus Services Chair
Trevor Mattea (cserve@su.wustl.edu)

University Initiatives Chair
Alex Christensen (initatives@su.wustl.edu)

Congratulations to the newly elected Senate Leadership Team. We look forward to serving you in the coming term.

Here are the results from the Fall Senate Elections as certified by Colin Towery, Student Union Election Commissioner. The victorious candidates are indicated in bold.

Architecture (1 seat)

Emily Treece

Art (1 seat)

Jen Kim

Arts & Sciences (7 seats)

Amy Heard
Sam Baier
Michael Post
Greg Schweizer
Ashli Hessel
Alex Christensen
Matthew Aiken
Eric Schwartz
Joseph Marcus
Emmanuel Bamfo
Eliot Prokop
John Delury
David Warnock

Business (1 seat)

Neil Shah
Andrew Warshauer

Engineering (2 seats)

Ceren Yalaz
**Seat to be filled by run-off election

Congratulations to the new Senators. They will be sworn in at the Senate meeting on Wednesday, November 13, 2008.

I want to thank all the freshman who voted in this year's Freshman Class Council election. We had 861 people vote. That is the largest turnout we've had for freshman class council elections within at least the last 5 years (maybe even ever...the archives only date back so far). 

This was not only a historical election in terms of voter turnout, but also in terms of the competition. We had 17 qualified individuals all vying for the positions. To the 3 slated and the 2 independent candidates, I commend you for taking the lead and causing an effect on campus. No matter what the outcome of the elections are for you, I hope that you continue to be involved and remain and active leader on campus.

President

Morgan Debaun 41%
Diamond SKinner 24.27%
Greg Sergay 16.96%
Roy Pruden 9.29%
Christopher Rinker 5.92%

Internal Vice President
Luna Koizumi 54.24%
Sami Alpert 22.07%
Brooke Cheatham 20.21%

External Vice President
Wayne Banks II 52.38%
Nishi Boppana 21.84%
Gregory Schwartz 20.21%

Treasurer
Isaac Radnitzer 45.18%
Suyi Tongo 30.43%
Ariel Krause 18.82%

Secretary
Zach Schmitz 46.57%
Shweta Joshi 24.39%
Baltazar Benavides 22.18%

Congratulations to Morgan, Luna, Wayne,  Isaac and Zach for being elected the 2008 Freshman Class Council.