The Class of 2005 leadership is now in place. Results in the runoff election were announced to the freshman class via e-mail yesterday afternoon. Heading the Class of '05 this year will be president Beau Harbour, vice-president Federico Baradello, secretary Surabhi Saraswat, treasurer Emily Moxley and social chair Stephanie Scott.
This year's freshmen posted notable numbers for their participation in the elections. USG treasurer and elections committee chair Michael Kimberley '03 said that while 55 to 60 percent of most freshmen classes participate in the initial elections, 70 percent of the Class of '05 turned in their votes.
President Beau Harbour laid out his vision for the upcoming year in an e-mail:
"As this year's Freshman Class President, I have a lot of plans that will hopefully promote class unity. Specifically, I want to create a CIA (College Interaction Activity) Program to facilitate cohesion among our class of 1185 freshmen. Ideally, the CIA program will encourage interaction between freshmen RA groups from different residential colleges by subsidizing inter-college study breaks with class funds. This is of course in addition to the study breaks, movie nights, and tailgates for the Class of '05 that the other officers have envisioned."
Vice president Federico Baradello expressed support for Harbour's CIA initiative in addition to reiterating one of his key campaign points. "One of my main goals this year will be to establish a strong relationship with our Grandparent Class of 1955 and Parent Class of 1980," he said. "They will be an important resource throughout our time at Princeton and beyond."
Kimberley noted that while this year's freshmen elections were "pretty much run of the mill," there were a few distinctive things about the campaigning.
"One thing that struck me as out of the ordinary was two officers ran on the same ticket," Kimberley said. In addition to this anomaly, Kimberley also observed that there were fewer complaints about campaign rule infringements."Usually there are more complaints . . . about where fliers are posted," he said.
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