On the eve of the Massachusetts gubernatorial debate, one Tufts sophomore was already closing out his election.
Gregory Meiselbach joined the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate at midnight on Wednesday, prevailing in an election over Michael Dolacky, Emerson Luke and Samantha Schnier. Twenty-seven percent of the sophomore class voted using online ballots, Elections Commission (ECOM) Public Relations Officer and sophomore Anjali Nirmalan said.
(Nirmalan is also an assistant photography editor for the Daily).
"I feel relieved," Meiselbach wrote in an e-mail. "Once I learned that there would be three others competing for the position I knew I would have my work cut out for me."
Meiselbach wrote that he used "flyers and Facebook, but mainly word-of-mouth to garner votes."
He also spoke to students at a candidate's forum in Hotung Caf?© on Tuesday night, saying that he will focus his efforts on improving social life at Tufts.
"The administration and student body are anxious to debate and find solutions to the problems with social life," he wrote. "I could not be entering at a better time."
This seat, and a senior seat, opened after sophomore Mose Berkowitz and senior Kelley Ferro resigned from the senate in September. Ferro's seat was uncontested and was filled immediately after her resignation by senior Zoe Gibson.
Meiselbach will attend his first senate meeting on Sunday. "I feel my main responsibility is to effectively represent the sophomore class in terms of their satisfactions and dissatisfactions with Tufts in general," he wrote.
- Marc Raifman
