By Cody Lemons | Staff Writer
Beginning at 9 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 15, students began voting for candidates to fill the seven open senate positions in the Student Government Association.
According to the SGA page of the APSU Web site, the Senate makes up the legislative branch, one of the SGA’s three main branches, and is composed of representatives from each student classification and from each academic college.
Candidates were running for two graduate senate positions and five freshman Senate positions.
The elections work in concurrence with the SGA Constitution, By-Laws and Standing Rules and conform to the Electoral Act. Students were able to vote at stations in the Morgan University Center and online.
Daniel Grizzard and Wesley Myers were two among 16 freshmen running for the open positions.
Myers, a political science major, said he liked the election process and was looking forward to learning about the school and understanding what the students want in their government.
Grizzard, a chemistry major, said running for Senate would be a fun way to get involved with activities at APSU.
The voting ended at 11:59 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 17. With campaigning and voting complete, candidates met with the executive officers to learn the winners of the election at 4:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18.
Brianna Velazquez, sophomore chief justice, opened the meeting by informing the candidates of the total number of votes cast, 454, including four votes from non-students.
Christopher Fee and Matt Ford were elected to the graduate seats. Gavin Akins, Douglas Austin, Ethan Fisher-Schmidt, Amy Hall and Anna Walla were elected to the five freshmen Senate seats.
“I feel awesome,” said Walla after she heard the results.
Walla also said she looked forward to listening to the ideas and critiques from her fellow students.
Grizzard said even though he lost this time, he was probably going to try again next time.
A full list of senators with pictures is available at www.apsu.edu.sga.
Information about the SGA’s laws, rules, meetings, minutes and applications can be found at the Web site.
CORRECTION: The e-mail address that was listed in the article published on Wednesday, Sept. 23, was incorrect. The correct e-mail address for SGA is sgasec@apsu.edu according to their Web site www.apsu.edu/sga/.
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