After a week that began with intense chalking around Grounds and ended with candidates spraying their initials in the snow, University students elected next year's Honor and Judiciary Committee representatives last night.
The newly elected Honor Committee representatives from the College are Carey Mignerey, Okem Nwogu and Sean Kevin Driscoll, emerging from a nine-person pool of candidates.
"I'm just excited right now," Nwogu said.
Mignerey led the race with 1,171 votes. Nwogu received 1,001 votes and Driscoll received 987 votes.
Nick Staubach and Jonathan Kelley won the Engineering School spots, receiving 371 and 340 votes respectively.
These representatives will join Architecture candidates Andrew Painter, with 100 votes, and Sarah Snider with 94 votes on the 2003-2004 Honor Committee.
The rest of the Honor elections were unopposed.
Brad Robinson and Logan Moncrief from the Commerce School received 159 and 132 votes respectively. Alyson Kienle received 52 votes from the Curry School and write-in candidate Dave Wolcott garnered 12 votes.
The Nursing School elected Laura Healy with 41 votes and write-in candidate Carey Floyd with 14 votes. Graduate School representative Zach Courser received 2 votes, but the second seat will have to be appointed. The School of Continuing and Professional Studies' Jason van Sant, with 28 votes, and Chris Woods, with 14 votes, will round out next year's Honor Committee.
"I think we had an extremely strong field of candidates," current Honor Committee Chair Chris Smith said. "I'm sure next year's committee will continue the work we've been doing to improve the Honor system."
The College and the Architecture School had contested elections for the Judiciary Committee.
Alexis Gregorian, Elizabeth Gould and Thomas Duda emerged from a field of five candidates to be named the College representatives on the 2003-2004 Judiciary Committee.
"I ran from a pool of extremely qualified candidates," Gregorian said. "I'm really excited -- I think it's going to be a great year."
Gregorian led the race with 1,593 votes, followed by Gould with 1,423 votes and Duda with 1,087 votes.
The race for Architecture representative resulted in a run-off for the second spot. Shelby Doyle, in first place, received 6 votes. Catherine Irwin, Marian Hickman, Matthew Prutsman, Michelle Shuman and Erika Gosik each received 2 votes and will compete in a runoff election on Feb. 25-26.
Other Judiciary Committee candidates ran unopposed.
Katie Rooney and Steve Dutton, receiving 151 and 135 votes respectively, will represent the Commerce School. Amber Turner, receiving 542 votes and J.V. Nable, a write-in candidate receiving 29 votes, will serve as the Architecture School representatives.
The Nursing School elected Amanda Cunningham, with 44 votes, and write-in candidate Melissa Zweigel, with 6 votes. Graduate School representatives Gavin Reddick, with 65 votes, and Erin Segal, a write-in candidate receiving 2 votes, complete next year's Judiciary Committee.
The newly elected candidates on both committees expressed their excitement for the upcoming term.
"I think it's a really eclectic group of diverse backgrounds," Nwogu said. "Hopefully next year we can make a lot of progress."
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