Many students have no doubt attempted to block all mention of GUSA from their mind, from being quiet when someone knocks on the door to keeping one’s head down walking through Red Square. But with the approach of voting day on Thursday, it’s about time to start considering who to vote for. For those of you who are too lazy to read up on the candidates, here’s a list of which student groups are supporting each of them.
Two weeks ago, the Voice Editorial Board laid out our priorities for Georgetown University Student Association executive candidates this year, naming among our key issues the expansion of the “clear and convincing” evidentiary standard to off-campus incidents, reform of the sexual assault reporting system, student engagement, and social justice. After interviewing each of the teams who granted us an interview, we have decided to endorse Nate Tisa (SFS ‘14) and Adam Ramadan (SFS ‘14) for the GUSA presidency and vice presidency this coming year, as their understanding of what Georgetown’s student body needs best aligns with our values.
Realistically, given the bureaucratic and term constraints of GUSA, tickets can only expect to accomplish a limited number of the policy goals enshrined in their ambitious platforms. Keeping this in mind, the Voice asked each ticket to identify two issues they would not want to leave GUSA without addressing. Tisa/Ramadan chose changing the way sexual assaults are handled on campus and expanding Georgetown’s free speech policy. These are priorities this paper shares.
In addition to the Voice’s endorsement, Tisa and Ramadan have received support from many GUSA senators and student groups, such as the Georgetown Israeli Alliance and Circolo Italiano, according their website.
Other groups listed on the site include GU Pride and H*yas for Choice, both of which support the ticket’s focus on reforming sexual assault policy and focus on improving diversity. GU Pride, of which Tisa is formerly a board member, specifically mentioned his work with the Safe Spaces Initiative and attempt to bring gender-neutral housing to campus.
Read the endorsements received by the rest of the candidates after the jump!
Ladies and gentlemen, the GUSA results are in! The student body cast 2040 votes for the non-at-large elections, and 1523 for the at-large election. This is up from last year’s 970 for at-large and 1033 for non-at-large.
Below, we have a list of the winners. And we’d like to wish a big Vox Populi congratulations to Eitan Paul, for seizing a write-in victory.
It has been just under a week since Calen Angert (MSB ’11) and Jason Kluger (MSB ’11) left office as president and vice president of the Georgetown University Student Association after two terms.
Although Angert and Kluger have been praised quite often for their tenure, we here at Vox were curious to see if they followed through on their reelection campaign platform.
[Editor’s note: The official campaign website, calenandjason.com, no longer is operational. The following goals are those that they opted to highlight on their Facebook page.]
Create a “gusaHELP” email account to answer student questions about anything ranging from the Student Code of Conduct to maintenance concerns.
Although it sounds like a helpful idea and similar to 2011 GUSA candidate Charlie Joyce’s (COL ’12) WikiHow website idea, this email account never came to fruition.
Mike Meaney (SFS ’12) and Greg Laverriere (COL ’12) have won the Georgetown University Student Association presidential election. Meaney and Laverriere won against Jed Feiman (COL ’12) and Henry Sims (COL ’12) in the fourth round of instant-runoff voting with1,612 of 2660 votes, according to an email from Election Commissioner Adam Giansiracusa.
Charlie Joyce (COL ’12) and Paige Lovejoy (COL ’12) made it to the third round runoff. Ace Factor (COL ’12) and James Pickens (COL ’12) made it to the second round.
There were 68 write-in votes and 2,893 total votes. Voting in the instant-runoff election ended at midnight on Friday.
It’s been a while, but Vox Talks is back. Last Wednesday, we asked every student in Lauinger Library at 4:30 a.m. what they wanted from their GUSA President. Candidates, take heed!
The Student Activity Fee Endowment (SAFE) reform referendum reached the number of votes required for it to be valid.
As of noon today, 2,002 votes were cast in the referendum with more than a day of voting left. Two-thousand votes were needed to validate the results.
Had the total number of votes failed to surpass 2,000 the referendum would automatically be rejected regardless of the percentage in support of the reform. The Election Commission is expected to release the results shortly after midnight Thursday.
In the meantime, make sure to let Vox know what you think by voting in our poll.
12:15 a.m. update: 741 votes have been cast as of 11:49 p.m., according to GUSA Election Commission member Adam Giansiracusa.
Original post: Voting begins tonight around midnight for the Student Activities Fee Endowment (SAFE) reform referendum.
The reforms passed their first obstacle when the Georgetown University Student Association Senate voted in favor of the referendum earlier this semester. In order for the changes to take place the referendum must be voted upon by the student population as a whole, with a minimum participation of 2,000 students. The referendum will automatically fail if it does not reach the required number of voters.
Voting is open until 12 a.m. on Friday.
After you vote, or abstain from voting, or get tired from trying to understand why so many acronyms are used at Georgetown, vote in our poll.
Who knows, maybe our poll can get more votes than the actual GUSA referendum?
To help foster a (hopefully) more informed student body for this year’s Georgetown University Student Association Senate Elections, Vox invited all candidates to complete a short questionnaire regarding their candidacies. And, to our surprise, some of them even responded!
The election is scheduled for this Thursday, although the exact 24-hour voting period is dependent on when the e-mail from the University goes out to students.
Students are allowed to vote in their respective districts and for the at-large positions. If your district is sans a candidate, or you do not want to vote for the candidates listed, write-ins are allowed.
Yesterday we brought you the freshmen candidates, now we’ve got the candidates for the other dorms. Check back tomorrow morning for the off-campus, apartment, and at-large candidates.
[Editor’s note: The questions for transfers differ slightly from the questions for students who were Georgetown students last year.]
Vox Populi is the staff blog of the Georgetown Voice, Georgetown University's weekly newsmagazine. Opinions expressed in posts are those of their author alone unless otherwise stated.
Many students have no doubt attempted to block all mention of GUSA from their mind, from being quiet when someone knocks on the door to keeping one’s head down walking through Red Square. But with the approach of voting day on Thursday, it’s about time to start considering who to vote for. For those of you who are too lazy to read up on the candidates, here’s a list of which student groups are supporting each of them.
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