Because of glitches in the registrar's verification process, results of the four referenda on the Honor Code were still not available last night, USG officials said.
But USG president Pettus Randall '04 said results should be certified and released sometime today. "Since it's a very close running, we want to verify the results before we release a statement," he said.
Randall said the USG was holding the results of the four proposed changes until each has been tabulated , so they could be released concurrently.
Johnny Chavkin, Class of 2005 senator, who proposed the reforms to the Honor Code, said that while he was not certain any of the reforms would gain the 75 percent vote needed to pass, "if I can get a majority on these things, I'll be pleased. . . . If there's a majority that agrees with one of the referendums, there needs to be some sort of change."
After a wait for registrar certification, the USG announced last night the newly elected group of 10 U-Councilors and winners and runoff candidates for class offices. No candidate for USG social chair received a majority of votes, and officials plan to recheck numbers before announcing the runoff contestants.
In a reversal of last year's USG policy, election managers declined to release individual percentages for this weekend's elections.
USG vice president and senior elections manager Jacqui Perlman '05 said last year's decision to release numbers — the first time they had been disclosed in four years — was "an aberration [that] wasn't well received by a lot of people."
In contested class races with outright winners — who gained more than 50 percent of the vote — Antoinette Seaberry '05 defeated incumbent Federico Baradello '05 for junior class vice president. In class of 2006 elections, Misha Renda was reelected as treasurer, winning out over Perla Amsili, and in the race for sophomore social chair, Jackie Lasaracina unseated incumbent Lauren Lyon.
Runoffs will be held for four offices: USG social chair, junior class president, sophomore class president and sophomore class vice president. However, the USG social chair runoff candidates were impossible to confirm last night. "It's too close to call," Perlman said. "In these instances it's best and safest to go back and reverify."
Beau Harbour '05, president of his class since freshman year, will face off against Azalea Kim '05, who is making her first run for office.
"It's very exciting," Kim said. "I guess I'm a little nervous having not gone through this before . . . but I got a fortune cookie from a Chinese place. It says, 'Everybody around you is rooting for you, don't give up.' I have that taped to my computer," she said.
Harbour said he felt lucky to have served as class president the last two years and "would love . . . an opportunity for another."
For next year's sophomores, incumbent president Frances Schendle '06 will face Chris Lloyd '06 in a rematch of last fall's runoff.
Lloyd said he is stressing inclusiveness in his campaign.
"A lot of people felt really disenfranchised," he said, then recounted the amount of money spent on various freshman class events. "A lot of people want to have input," he said.
Schendle disagreed with Lloyd's analysis of her term. "[It's] not something we've been totally ignorant about," she said. "[O]n some level it's unfair to say that we have not been inclusive or accountable — we have been in touch with our class," she said, citing the 50 to 75 e-mails a day she said she receives.
In the race for sophomore class vice president, Maggie Flores '06 will run against Will Skinner '06. The incumbent vice president, Nikhil Rao '06, decided not to run for reelection.
Freshmen constitute six of the 10 newly elected U-councilors, chosen from a field of 14. The winners are: Allison Arensman '04, Weili Shaw '04, John Brunger '05, Matt Margolin '05, Becky Brown '06, Harrison Frist '06, Dylan Hogarty '06, Brandon Parry '06, James Williams '06, and Vanessa Wu '06.
All incumbent officers for the Class of 2004, who have served together continuously since freshman year, ran unopposed.
All students, including seniors, were eligible to vote in the U-council election, but class elections were limited to members of each respective class.
Perlman was able to report approximate voter turnout for the individual class elections, with 68 percent of the Class of 2006, 64 percent of the Class of 2005 and 38 percent of the Class of 2004.
Running unopposed in this weekend's election were Class of 2004 president Eli Goldsmith, vice president Rishi Jaitli, treasurer Michael Angelo, secretary Maureen Monagle, and social chair Milo Adams; Class of 2005 treasurer Emily Moxley, secretary Surabhi Saraswat, and social chair Stephanie Scott; and Class of 2006 secretary Amanda Chi.
Runoff elections take place during one 24-hour period, starting at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday morning and ending at 11:59 that night.
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