Students elect next year’s Student Senate executives and representatives
Ohio University students elected Student Senate executives and representatives on Tuesday for the 2022-2023 school year.
Dayna Shoulders was elected as Student Senate president, Luvina Cooley as vice president and Trinity Robinson as treasurer. All three ran as independent, write-in candidates due to position declaration deadlines.
This year, only 638 students voted compared to the 854 in the 2021-2022 election. Shoulders received 311 votes, defeating Brogan Speraw, her closest competitor, by 99 votes. Cooley and Robinson received 283 and 305 votes respectively.
Other candidates also ran for executive positions, but no one running for president other than Shoulders and Speraw received over 8 votes. Corrin Smith had the second highest number of votes for vice president with 54 votes and Austin Nutter came third with 25. Choesung O’Brien received 20 votes for Treasurer while Jacob Free and Ethan Meyer both received 2.
Undergraduate students were able to vote for Senate positions throughout the day through an online form sent to their university emails. The results were announced at the Student Senate meeting Tuesday night following a slight delay.
Other representative seats were also decided during the election Tuesday. The results are listed below.
At-Large Senators: Madeline Delay, Ayshi Tandon, Kaleb Keichel
SAC Representatives: Eli Cless, Ben Miller, Tristian Totten, David J Rhymer II, Matt Moser
Off Campus Senators: Chandler Jent, Nolan Khounborin, Sam Carr
Residential Senators: Ethan Meyer, Jacob Free, Stan Yerrick
Russ College of Engineering and Technology Senator: Emily McCarty
College of Arts and Sciences Senator: Anaya Datta
College of Business Senator: Katie Hall
College of Fine Arts Senator: Virgina Dickens
Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education Senator: Alexis Thomas
Honors Tutorial College Senator: Brady Phelps
No candidate received more than two votes for University College Senator, Graduate College Senator, Scripps College of Communication Senator, Center for International Studies Senator and the College of Health Sciences and Professions Senator.
