Update: Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senator Edward Chao will chair the TCU Senate's Student Outreach Committee, not the Special Projects Committee, as previously reported. Read more>>
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A day after this year's presidential election, newly elected members of the Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate selected new leaders for the body's Executive Board and Allocations Board (ALBO), as well as Senate committee chairs, during in-house elections last night.
Junior Antonella Scarano will serve as vice president, freshman Aaron Bartel as treasurer, sophomore Tomas Valdes as historian and freshman Danielle Cotter as parliamentarian. Freshman Kate de Klerk will serve as associate treasurer. They will round out the Executive Board, led by newly elected TCU President Brandon Rattiner.
The senators also chose new committee chairs last night. Sophomore Sam Wallis and freshman Joel Greenberg will co-chair the Services Committee; sophomore Samia Zahran -- who this year ran unsuccessfully for TCU president -- will serve as the chair of the Administration and Policy Committee chair, freshman Nunu Luo will serve as the chair of the Education Committee; sophomore Nedghie Adrien will chair the Culture, Ethnicity and Community Affairs Committee and sophomore Edward Chao will serve as the Special Projects Committee chair.
The Senate also voted to absolve the Student Outreach Committee. Now, its responsibilities will fall under the aegis of the Special Projects Committee, according to Elections Commission Chair Adam Weldai, a senior.
Six members of ALBO were elected last night, although nine total will serve on the board. Rattiner, as the TCU president, was automatically elected to serve on the board, and two spots remain reserved for next year's freshman senators. Scarano, Wallis, de Klerk, Greenberg, Chao and sophomore Dan Pasternack were elected to the six open spots.
Rattiner, a junior, told the Daily after the elections that he was looking forward to working with the newly elected Senate leaders.
"I'm excited by the energy and the optimism that's being brought by the new members of the Executive Board and committee chairs," he said. "I think it's going to be one of the most supportive, accessible … Senates we've seen in a very long time."
The positions of Services Committee chair and Education Committee chair were the only uncontested seats in the elections.
