Mike Prewitt
Nick Sterner, Shawnee junior, and KUnited candidate, is announced president with vice presidential candidate, Marynell Jones, Dallas junior, a little after 7 last night. Members of the KUnited coalition celebrated at the Madhatter Bar and Grill, 623 Vermont St. This is the fourth consecutive year KUnited’s candidates have won the presidential and vice presidential election for Student Senate.
Nick Sterner raised his right hand in the air and held up four fingers as the faint sound of a radio announced that KUnited had won the 2005 Student Body President/Vice President elections.
His hand symbolized the fourth year in a row that KUnited had won.
Vice president-elect Marynell Jones hugged him as about 100 people who gathered at the KUnited election party at the Mad Hatter Bar and Grill, 623 Vermont St., began to cheer and pour champagne.
“I’m absolutely thrilled for all the candidates associated with KUnited,” Sterner said. “They’ve worked their tails off from day one, and it’s all about the KUnited family.”
Sterner was then met with hugs and handshakes from everyone at the party, and his parents said they had never been more proud.
“We’ve already started bragging.” Joe Sterner, Nick Sterner’s father, said.
Jones celebrated in a similar fashion to Sterner, as people on the street congratulated her with hugs.
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Jones said she had mixed feelings after the results were announced, as her brother Arthur Jones, Dallas junior, lost his Senate seat.
Jones missed out on a junior/senior CLAS seat by two votes. Jones previously served as the chairman of the student executive committee.
“My twin brother lost, that’s hard for me,” she said. “It’s bittersweet because he’s one of the best senators we have.”
It became a bittersweet victory for the entire coalition because it won only three of the 14 junior/senior CLAS Senate positions.
“We knew they were going to be the hardest seats to win,” Sterner said. “They worked every day for us, it hurts me very much.”
Overall, though, it was a positive night for KUnited.
Before the results were announced, one of the variables that KUnited was worried about was the third coalition Student Voice, which was running for the first time.
Student Voice spent much of its campaign saying negative things about KUnited, Sterner said.
“I feel like if Student Voice would have spent as much time serving students as they did negative campaigning it might have turned out better for them,” Sterner said.
Sterner and Jones will be sworn in April 27 at a joint senate meeting.
— Edited by Austin Caster
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