Graab wins presidency, Byrne nabs VP
SGA announces election results for officers, representatives
By Matt Bishop & Jamie Howell / Student Publications
Alison Graab (left) was elected undergraduate student body president and Paul Byrne (right) was elected undergraduate executive vice president. Results were announced Wednesday.
Student Government Association (SGA) elections closed Wednesday, and the foundation has been laid for next year’s student government.
Alison Graab won the presidency, while Paul Byrne was elected as executive vice president.
“I’m just very excited,” Graab said. “It’s an honor. I would like to thank everyone for voting.”
Graab won the presidency by a narrow margin with 50.8 percent of the vote, or 1,736 votes, in her favor. Only 28 votes kept her out of a run-off with Patrick Cook, who received 1,211 of the votes. Richard Wright and Will Ferguson received 245 and 224 votes respectively.
Byrne won the vice-presidency with 55 percent of the votes cast. Byrne received 1,718 of the votes compared to Aaron Bolduc’s 908 votes and Toyo Okanlawon’s 499 votes.
“I’m feeling lucky,” Byrne said before the election results were announced on Wednesday. “I wore my lucky boxers today.”
The vote to pass the proposed Constitutional Amendment passed the amendment with 2,046 votes in favor of the changes and 522 against.
Class and academic representatives for next year were also announced Wednesday. Academic representatives are elected from the various schools at Tech. The number of representatives varies from major to major based on size.
Raj Ghosh Dastidar is the Aerospace Engineering representative. Thomas Fink won the representative position for Architecture. The new Biomedical Engineering representative is Chris Zhang.
Linh Son won the one Chemistry representative spot by six votes over Brian Tomaschik. Perrin Quarshie won the one Civil Engineering representative by forty-eight votes over Yunita Fu. Varun Prasad ran unopposed and is the new Co-op representative.Gary Mann, Priyanka Mahalanabis and Jeff Wei won the Computer Science representative positions. Grant Farmer ran unopposed to be elected as the representative for Earth and Atmospheric Science.
The new Electrical and Computer Engineering representatives are Derek Greene, Jonathon Hong and Kevin Kung. The Industrial Systems and Engineering representatives are Andrea Huber, Stephen Kump, Tina Sweeder and Radhika Kumar. Meena Nabavi ran unopposed and won the International Affairs representative position.
The representatives for the College of Management are Leah McCormick, Michael Warwick and Suzie Holmes. The representative for Mechanical Engineering is Dave Coleman. Doug Gladden ran unopposed and is the Public Policy representative.
Each class elects four representatives to the House, and the one person who receives the most votes in each class becomes the Class President. Katie Viscelli, John Vaughns, George Ray and Austin Rahn won positions as freshmen representatives with Viscellie receiving the highest number of votes. Matt Peeples, Charlene D’Souza, Scott Bancroft and Brian Lee won the sophomore representative race with Peeples receiving the highest number of votes. Brittany Young, Lara Griffith, Anna Griffith and Kelly Michaud won the race for junior representatives with Young receiving the highest number of votes. Elizabeth Burchfield, William Welch, Vickie Cherry and Steven Hardy won the race for senior representatives with Burchfield receiving the highest number of votes.
Although Graduate Student Senate (GSS) results were not official at press time, Mitch Keller, who ran for GSS president unopposed, said he was looking forward to a productive year.
“I’m looking forward to working on behalf of the graduate students and working with the undergraduate officers to work on behalf of all students,” Keller said.
