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GSSC elections results are in! An auspicious day for democracy indeed. And now, the winners and losers. (Except of course for any category marked "no winner", which indicates that the candidate did not receive at least 25 votes.)


President

Brody Berg 50%
Virdis Bala 22%
Ishmael Osekre 13%
Write-in (other) 15%

VP Policy

Michael Rain 35%
David Minchin 32%
Allen Settle 30%
Write-in (other) 3%

VP Student Life

Richard Adams 41%
Write-in (other) 59%

VP Finance

Eleanor Colley 89%
Write-in (other) 11%

VP Communications

Evan Madeo 83%
Write-in (other) 17%

Social Chair

Lisa Fishenfeld 59%
Gbadebo Williams 33%
Write-in (other) 7%

Academic Affairs

Jacob Matilsky 91%
Write-in (other) 9%

Alumni Affairs

NO WINNER
Jessica Collins 63%

Student Services Rep

NO WINNER

Senior President

Albert Kim 49%
Write-in (other) 51%

Senior VP

NO WINNER

Junior President

NO WINNER
Larissa Higgins 63%
Write-in (other) 37%

Junior VP

NO WINNER
Ashkan Shahsavari 30%
Scott Jurkowski 26%
Write-in (other)

Sophomore President

Alex Katz 92%
Write-in (other) 8%

Sophomore VP

Joseph Spitz 89%
Write-in (other) 11%

Parent Rep NO WINNER
Student Worker Rep NO WINNER
International Rep NO WINNER

Delegate #1 Larisa Kolesnikov
Delegate #2 Nathan Miller
Delegate #3 NO WINNER
Delegate #4 NO WINNER

See also: Democracy, Gssc, Not Niko Cunningham

April 25, 2008 @ 8:44 PM | Comments 15 comments | Add comment Post a comment | Link to this article | | | Share on Facebook

Posted by Tim Taylor: #1 · reply · track
April 25, 2008 at 8:50 PM (from campus)
Don't blame me. I voted Jonathan Taylor Thomas for GSSC President.
Posted by fefe: #2 · reply · track
April 25, 2008 at 9:37 PM (from campus)
mannn why didn't ishmael win. He's off tha chain.
Posted by ok so: #3 · reply · track
April 25, 2008 at 9:43 PM
on the ones where 'write in' got more votes than a named candidate, was that one person, or many people? this actually doesn't make it clear who won
Posted by Ross Perot: #4 · reply · track
April 25, 2008 at 10:23 PM (from campus)
It must mean that there were more write-in votes than the named candidate, but that they were spread out amongst more than one write-in so to draw a plurality.
Posted by random: #5 · reply · track
April 25, 2008 at 11:29 PM (from campus)
how many people actually voted in the gssc elections! c'mon bwog get us some numbers!
Posted by it seems it was: #6 (in reply to #5) · reply · track
April 26, 2008 at 12:41 AM (from campus)
not much higher than 25
Posted by perhaps too cynical: #7 · reply · track
April 26, 2008 at 2:54 AM (from campus)
I voted for Lee Bollinger for President. I felt that only he had the experience, tact, knowledge of the levers of administration, and reputation to resolve the issues of financial aid and housing for Columbia University's School of General Studies' students. It's a pity he wasn't eligible.

"If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve."

In a slightly more flippant gesture, I voted Josef Stalin for Student Workers' Representative; back to basics with this one- gulag for the CC kids, and extermination of the educated/technical classes- I'm looking at you, SEAS. Or is that more a Pol Pot thing?

BTW- the race for VP of Policy turned out quite Clintonesque- No majority for any of them, with the best two forced to compete with an obnoxious spoiler candidate. Decide for yourselves who I'm talking about.

/hope the dems can get their act together soon, this crap is annoying.
Posted by still too cynical: #8 (in reply to #7) · reply · track
April 26, 2008 at 2:56 AM (from campus)
and by Clintonesque, I of course refer to Bill Clinton's 1996 "victory" over Perot and Bush I. Duh. For those who are somehow ignorant of that race.
Posted by That was: #9 (in reply to #8) · reply · track
April 26, 2008 at 6:59 AM
1992. 1996 was when Clinton beat Bob Dole Bob Dole.
Posted by non-geometer: #10 (in reply to #6) · reply · track
April 26, 2008 at 9:35 AM (from campus)
so if 63% is less than 25 votes, even if it were just under, at 24, that means that a MAXIMUM of 38 people voted in the two races declared NO WINNER. However, since VP Policy won with only 35% of votes, which must have been greater than 25 votes since he won, at least 71 people must have voted in that race, and presumably also in the presidential race. Still pretty pathetic, considering that there are about 1,200 students in GS... what is the point of a student council if only 5-10% of the students care to vote?
Posted by Apathetic Voter: #11 · reply · track
April 26, 2008 at 10:39 AM
There is no point to a student council unless you're one of the people serving in it. Nobody in GS cares about something for older people wishing to participate in something they couldn't when they were 20. Hence, nobody votes and the GSSC is consistently crap, but the students don't really care.
Posted by Paul: #12 · reply · track
April 26, 2008 at 2:31 PM (from campus)
There is no way of knowing the total number of people who voted in the election by examining the results. No voter was forced to vote in every contest on the ballot, so they could have logged in to vote for those one or two candidates they know, and left the rest blank.

Further, for class-wide positions you're talking about a smaller group of voters which, unless you were a sophomore, didn't have a name on the ballot to check. That narrows it down to the people who proactively logged in to write-in someone's name but the percentages do not count the number of people who skipped voting in that contest entirely, though they were eligible.

And yes GS is 1200 strong, but that number also includes part-time students who probably weren't aware of the elections, or if they were, aren't on campus enough to be informed on who to vote for.
Posted by ignorantly cynical: #13 (in reply to #9) · reply · track
April 26, 2008 at 4:52 PM (from campus)
haha! see? I don't even know what I'm talking about. then again, it WAS 3 am... FAIL on me...
Posted by boot 'em all: #14 · reply · track
April 26, 2008 at 6:58 PM (from campus)
It's satisfying to see the unfilled offices: it sends a clear message that so very few us of us in GS care about that sad little thing called a student council. Very happy to see a smaller number of office-holding assclowns.

Next year, I'd like to urge the incoming GSSC to STFU.
Posted by jammin: #15 · reply · track
April 27, 2008 at 12:06 AM (from campus)
around 500 GSers voted two years ago when the polls were open for 48 hours, and nearly 450 voted last year when the polss were open for way less than 24 hours. stay tuned to see how many voted this yeasr - my money is on "not that many."
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