Incumbents Valerie Hopkins ('09) and Zach Pilchen ('09) will be undergoing a role reversal: Hopkins and Pilchen have been elected as Student Assembly president and vice president.
Challengers Adam Rosen ('09) and Emily Nuñez ('09) received 25 percent of the popular vote, while Hopkins and Pilchen received 70 percent.
In response to her election as SA president, Hopkins said, "It's a combination of the news still setting in and the fact that I don't feel that much has changed with Zach and my relationship."
Pilchen said, "The election results are an indication that we have brought student power in Williamsburg to a new level. Next year, we will bring it to the next level."
Both Hopkins and Pilchen boast about the pursuit of transparency, especially in wake of the controversy surrounding former College president Gene Nichol's resignation.
Rosen and Nuñez, both transfer students, also underlined transparency throughout their campaign. They proposed change that would make the SA more accessible by updating the SA Web site more often and making podcasts or videos to keep students up to date on the goings-on of the SA.
"We did much better than we expected," Rosen said. "Few transfer students run against incumbents. We really felt like our insurgent campaign brought out a lot of new ideas that students wanted to be heard."
Four referenda were also placed on the undergraduate ballot.
The Green Fees referendum, which asked students' opinions about adding $15 per semester to their general fees in pursuit of sustainability. The measure passed with 85 percent voting yes.
The police department behavior referendum passed with 55 percent, which asked students if they perceived campus police as being too severe.
The Save-a-Professor referendum, which passed with 83 percent, asked students if they would support a $7 increase in tuition to give extra benefit packages to certain professors with the goal of retaining excellent teachers.
The HBO referendum asked whether students support additional fees to acquire HBO on-campus and/or a reduction of funding for the campus movie channel. A plurality of students did not support the addition of HBO and accompanying fees, and voted to maintain the funding for the campus movie channel.
As a final comment on the election, Pilchen said, "We have another 365 days ahead of us. But we're just going to take a breather tonight and get started again tomorrow."
Class Officers:
Class of 2009
President: Kevin Dua
Vice President for Advocacy: Kristen Slawter
Vice President for Social Affairs: Samantha Fien-Helfman
Treasurer: Cliff Dunn
Secretary: Chris Ilardo
Senators: Matt Beato, Walter McClean, Caroline Mullis, Matt Pinsker
Class of 2010
President: Ali Snell
Vice President for Advocacy: Laura Nelson
Vice President for Social Affairs: Alyssa Wallace
Treasurer: Andrew Noll
Secretary: Jessica Taubman
Senators: Ryan Eickel, Ross Gillingham, Steven Nelson, Sara Rojas
Class of 2011
President: Jazmine Piña
Vice President for Advocacy: Sara Owermohle
Vice President for Social Affairs: Julia Riesenberg
Treasurer: William Brannon
Secretary: Chrissy Scott
Senators: Ben Brown, Michael Douglas, Brittany Fallon, Mike Tsidulko