Peter Collin / Managing Editor
The results are in and the new president of the SGA is Andrew Froning.
Froning narrowly defeated fellow senator Kelly Fournier 336 to 320. Rasheed Taylor came in third at 272 and Zach McGuirk came in a distant fourth with 47 votes.
There were 975 total votes for the election, which more than doubled last year’s turnout of 420.
Froning ran his campaign based on a platform of unification stating, “…really my whole thing is to unify this campus. Going along with that is something I’ve started this past semester, to bring faculty, students, and staff together. I really want to turn this university from campus to a home for people.”
Serving as Froning’s vice president will be Matt Vekakis, who convincingly captured the position by a 647 vote margin over Kurt Peterson.
Alexander Estrom • Apr 24, 2009 at 3:04 pm
There were actually more than 1,000 votes. Part time students cannot vote for SGA president. An injustice though it may be, it puts the total number of voting students over 1,000!