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8 NEWS
the Rice Thresher
Friday, February27,2009
RESULTS OF TNI 2009 SA
GENERAL ELECTION
Student Association
President: Patrick McAnaney
External Vice President: Amber Makhani
internal Vice President: Selim Sheikh
Treasurer: Tiffany Wu
Rice Student Volunteer Program
Chair: Alice Tsao
External Wee Chaic Grace Chang
internal Vice Chair: Danielle Axelson
Treasurer: Tina Cai
Secretary: Sarah James
Honor Council
Senior Representative: Jackie Ammons
Junior Representative: Keisey Zottnick
Sophomore Representative: Andrew McElroy Patterson
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Other Positions
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RTV5 Program Director: Brandon Cisneros
Representative to the University Council: Alexander Wyatt
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Issues and Amendments
1. To remove University Blue's blanket tax:
Pass (86%)
2. To increase Rice Program Council's blanket tax:
Fail (56%)
3. To increase Rice Program Council's blanket tax for major events:
Fail (47%)
4. To increase KTRU's blanket tax:
Fail (45%)
5. To establish R2: The Rice Review as a subsidiary
organization:
Fail (64%)
6. To establish Open magazine as a subsidiary organization:
Fail (45%)
7. To amend Article XII and remove Article XXI of the Honor
Council Constitution:
Fail (46%)
Final vote tally: 1,610
O ELECTION
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"I think what's most important
now is to look at the big picture be-
cause this is really the only time we
can do that," McAnaney said.
McAnaney said he planned to
reach out to Weingast and Muscara
so that they would stay involved.
"It's silly to turn away any people
who are enthusiastic and want to be
involved in the SA," McAnaney said.
"I think they will be a great asset
and I don't think the election should
be the end of their participation."
Crompton, who spoke in poetry
during the SA debate, said his cam-
paign attracted student interest.
"I'd say I think my campaign
raised the level of awareness about
issues of sexiness on campus," he
said. "Rice's prettiest cohorts have
stressed overwhelming approval of
my campaign."
Crompton also wanted to clarify
that his campaign's purpose was to
raise student awareness about SA
activities.
"Martel [College] has a long tra-
dition of sending joke candidates to
the SA to draw awareness to impor-
tant issues on campus, like, or in my
case sexiness," he said. "I give off
the impression of being really con-
ceited, but it's a joke."
Amber Makhani was elected
SA External Vice President. Selim
Sheikh and Tiffany Wu won SA Inter-
nal Vice President and Treasurer, re-
spectively, in uncontested elections.
Angela Wu won U-Court Sopho-
more Representative, Alice Tsao
won RSVP Chair, Grace Chang won
RSVP External Vice Chair, Danielle
Axelson won RSVP Internal Vice
Chair and Sarah James won RSVP
Secretary.
Tina Cai won RSVP Treasurer in
a hotly-contested election. She de-
feated John Sanders by two votes,
370 to 368.
Michelle Kerkstra won Rice Pro-
gram Council President, Casey Mi-
chel won Thresher Editor-in-Chief,
Rachel Orosco won KTRU Station
Manager, Trevor Rice won RTV5
Station Manager, Brandon Cisneros
won RTV5 Program Director and Al-
exander Wyatt won Representative
to the University Council.
Per their constitution, the Honor
Council will use the election results
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to determine the Honor Council
representatives, which will be an-
nounced at a later date.
The removal of University Blue's
blanket tax passed with 86 percent of
the vote. None of the other proposed
blanket taxes received the necessary
67 percent of the vote to pass. R2: The
Rice Review came closest, garnering
64 percent of the vote.
The proposal to amend Article
XII and remove Article XXI of the
Honor Council Constitution did
not pass. The proposal received
46 percent of the vote, making
this the second year in a row it did
not pass.
This election boasted the great-
est number of votes cast in any elec-
tion and the highest undergraduate
participation since the early 1980s,
when the SA ran elections through
paper ballots in individual colleges.
The polls opened last Friday shortly
after midnight and stayed open for
five days. Many students voted ear-
ly; over t,ooo students had voted by
Sunday at midnight.
"We did the best we could with
what we had, and we tried as many
new things as we could to give ev-
eryone the opportunity to vote,"
Faust said.
To encourage voter turnout,
Faust distributed "I Voted" stickers,
urged students to vote in the Rice
Memorial Center, put an advertise-
ment on Facebook, raised the cam
paign limit for presidential candi-
dates to 50 dollars and got Assistant
Dean of Students Boyd Beckwith
to approve changing the computer
screens in the RMC to default to the
voting site.
Faust said he encouraged can-
didates to think beyond posters for
their campaigns.
"Posters are boring," Faust said.
"We saw lots of different things this
year, [including! buttons, sidewalk
chalk, fliers on tabletops, and a lot
of enthusiastic person-to-person
campaigning."
Faust said the large number of
presidential candidates and the
presence of seven ballot issues
one Honor Council amendment and
six blanket tax proposals — also
drew more voters.
Faust also said he was pleasantly
surprised by Weingast's success.
"In recent years, the candidates
have been pretty involved in the SA
Senate with, as far back as I can
find, one left-field candidate who
does poorly," Faust said. "This year
the dark horse ran a superb race.
The fact that (Weingast) brought in a
lot of folks who otherwise wouldn't
have given a damn about the SA and
got them to learn about the issues
and vote made my day, gave me a big
oP grin. But the fact that over half
the student body voted? Dude, I'm
delighted. I'm ecstatic."
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