ASUO Elections: Only The Beginning
Long time no see.
Hey, everyone! I’m alive! I apologize for my nearly two-month-long absence. The end of winter quarter and beginning of spring quarter have been a whirlwind time for me, and it has been growing difficult to find time to write. A few people have noticed, and I appreciate the questions about when this blog would return. Hopefully, I will continue to find time here and there to make quick posts.
ASUO Elections
Campaigning for next year’s student government hit the ground running Monday, March 29th. People mocked garish t-shirt colors and website designs. Apathetic students avoided 13th and University like the plague. Flash mob dances entertained people pouring out of Columbia 150. In the end, about 22% of the student body (5157) voted in the primaries, an impressive number considering only 15% cared last year. For the results by the numbers, head over to the ASUO Elections Board‘s site (PDF).
The four contenders for executive president and vice president have now been narrowed down to Alex McCafferty and Alden Williams (Reality Check) and Amelie Rousseau and Maneesh Arora (independent). The other slates, Campus Change Coalition (Jairo Castaneda and Alex Esparza) and Change & Leadership (Cassi Gritzmacher and Lucas McAdams), deserve some love for the hard work they put in.
Next week, voting for the general elections starts Monday morning and ends Thursday at 5PM. Log onto DuckWeb, click on your student menu, and you’ll see an option to vote. While Reality Check may have taken many of the committee and senate seats, a few are still up for grabs, and the exec president and vice president positions are anyone’s game. I encourage you to check out the linked websites, flip through the Voter’s Guide, and search the Daily Emerald‘s interviews for more information. Make an educated vote!
Full disclosure
This week, I campaigned for Campus Change Coalition and mainly worked on social media/web. I thank the staff for trusting me with such a huge responsibility. Now that the primaries are over, I must admit that I agree with some of Reality Check’s platform points and values. A few weeks ago, deciding which campaign to work with was a toss-up. I still stand by my decision to side with 3C, and I loved meeting and working with every single person in that campaign. Although generals are here and most of our candidates did not make it through, I am not turning my back on the 3C family. With that said, I am not fully supportive of putting Amelie and Maneesh in office. Whoever ends up in the exec spots, I hope that people will refrain from voting down a slate or only for their friends. Vote for individuals based off of their passion and goals, not because of their affiliations.
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