TCU Election Results

In yesterday’s Tufts Community Union (TCU) elections, two new senators in the junior class and two in the senior class were elected. The open seat for sophomore class council tresaurer was also filled, in addition to open seats on the TCU Judiciary and the Committee on Student Life.

 

The results are as follows:

 

Senior Senate

Jameelah Morris

Tabias Wilson

 

Junior Senate

Shriya Nevatia

Joshua Youner

 

Judiciary

Becky Goldberg, sophomore

Leah Shaw, freshman

 

Committee on Student Life

Emani Holyfield, sophomore

Kumar Ramanathan, sophomore

 

Sophomore Class

Council Treasurer

Michael Fein

Several students also walked on to community representative and Programming Board seats uncontested:

 

LGBT Center Representative

John Kelly, sophomore

 

Women’s Center Representative

Grainne Griffiths, junior

 

Junior Class Council

President: Patrick Kazley

 

Treasurer: Jordanna Rosen

 

Sophomore Class Council

Secretary

Daniel Madwed

 

The election had a 32.6 percent voter turnout with 1,704 students casting ballots, according to Elections Commission Public Relations Chair Paige Newman, a freshman.

Morris, who ran alongside Wilson on identical platforms, said the two new senators plan to bring to their one-semester tenure a focus on academic equity and increased research opportunities.

“Both Tabias and I have worked with various aministrators on ways that we can get more support for research opportunities in various academic fields,” she said last night after the election results were released.

Ramanathan is one of two new elected student representatives to the Committee on Student Life, a group of faculty members and students charged with hearing appeals of decisions handed down by the Judiciary. He said that he looks forward to encouraging more cooperation between the committee and the students it serves.

“I hope to bridge the gap between the the CSL and the student body,” he said.