48 students formally entered the race for Student Union elections yesterday. The election will fill positions on SU’s executive board, 10 seats each in Senate and Treasury, as well as Olin business council and sophomore, junior and senior class councils.

To encourage more engaged voting and a more equitable election process, we recommend that Student Union Senate vote to remove incumbent tags in Oct. 24’s Senate and Treasury sessions before the upcoming election in November.

The newly elected board of Student Union executive officers is a group of SU insiders hoping to cut bureaucracy where numerous exec slates before them have failed. Junior Emma Tyler, former president of Social Programming Board, was elected president and will succeed current president Matt Re on Thursday, April 3.

For the 20 or so people present, things got serious in room 276 of the Danforth University Center Monday night, even as music and laughs could be heard from the “Frozen” movie screening down below. The event was a debate between Connection Slate and Elevate! Slate, the two contesting slates for this year’s Student Union executive board election.

In an unprecedented move, a student is not only running a write-in campaign for Student Union president, but he is doing it from more than 5,000 miles away. Junior Sean […]

Student Union election results from this week’s election were announced Wednesday evening. The UP executive slate, which ran uncontested, won with more than 96 percent of the vote. The slate, headed by President-elect John Harrison York, the current vice president of programming, will take office on March 31.

Student Union election results for the 2011-2012 school year were released on Wednesday. Pup N’ Suds defeated incumbent slate Mission Accomplished for Senior Class Council, and the UP slate, which ran unopposed, will serve as the next SU Executive Council.

In an effort to make its election process more transparent and to lengthen the transition time for next year’s executives, Student Union has moved its election dates to March 4 […]