The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate on Sunday gave its two empty positions to seniors Bretlyn Curtis and Sarah Lawson after no challengers expressed interest in taking the seats.
Curtis and Lawson received the seats automatically because they were the only students to submit petitions by last Friday's deadline.
"It was essentially an uncontested election," said junior Anjali Nirmalan, the public relations officer for the TCU Elections Commission (ECOM).
This was one of many special elections to take place this year, Nirmalan said. The Senate holds special elections when seats become open in the middle of the semester. In this case, TCU Education Chair Amanda Richardson and TCU Treasurer Evan Dreifuss stepped down.
"We are bound by the constitution to hold an election within 15 academic days of a vacancy," Nirmalan said. Dreifuss and Richardson vacated their positions in late January.
TCU Senator Lauren Levine, a freshman, was elected assistant treasurer during Sunday's meeting. Levine, who was formerly the assistant treasurer, stepped in for newly named TCU Treasurer Scott Silverman after Silverman took on Dreifuss' old position. the position of assistant treasurer has yet to be filled.
TCU Senator Matt Shapanka has taken over Richardson's position as education chair. "He knows the body really well," TCU Historian Alex Pryor said. "He's been working with the Senate since he was a freshman."
