Friday, April 13, 2007
Dressed in similar attire, Hannah Love, Dodge City junior and presidential nominee for United Students, and running mate Ray Wittlinger, Olathe junior, grasped plastic cups of champagne while waiting for election results.
Hannah Love, Dodge City junior, and Ray Wittlinger, Olathe junior, react to the announcement of the election results in the Yacht Club Thursday evening. Love and Wittlinger won the election and were elected President and Vice President of the Student Senate. Love and Wittlinger represent the coalition United Students.
Love and Wittlinger, surrounded by fellow United Students nominees and supporters, nervously watched KUJH’s election coverage at the Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St.
The restaurant erupted in yells each time a United Students candidate secured a Senate seat.
The moment Love and Wittlinger worked months for finally arrived.
With 51 percent of the student vote, Love and Wittlinger won the top seats in next year’s Student Senate. They beat out Delta Force by 440 votes and Students’ Rights by 1754 votes.
“I’m in shock right now,” Love said. “Our candidates were the real facilitators of this.”
Love said the coalition’s freshman/sophomore students did amazingly. United Students secured all 14 freshman/sophomore Senate seats.
Wittlinger said all the coalition’s hard work was for the student body.
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With 51 percent of the student vote, Love and Wittlinger won the top seats in next year’s Student Senate. They beat out Delta Force by 440 votes and Students’ Rights by 1754 votes.
After hugs, tears and fist-pounds with supporters, Love and Wittlinger congratulated their fellow coalition members on their hard work and success.
United Students secured a single Senate seat in each of the engineering, education, law, journalism, junior/senior CLAS, pharmacy and graduate schools.
The coalition received two Senate seats for both the business and social welfare schools, and one non-traditional senator.
Four United Students candidates were elected as off-campus senators and one as a residential senator.
Wittlinger said he and Love were honored that the student body came out and voted for them.
“They put their trust in us to do what we promised,” Wittlinger said. “Now we can do that.”
Love said she was looking forward to a good night’s sleep. Wittlinger said he would sleep on Friday because the rest of the night was for celebrating.
The next step for Wittlinger and Love is to start putting together their executive staff, including Senate secretary and treasurer, for next year.
“There’s a lot work to be done in the next few weeks,” Love said.
Kansan staff writer Ashlee Kieler can be contacted at akieler@kansan.com.
— Edited by Kelly Lanigan
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United Students win top seats in election
Every year, same coalitions, same results. Happy governing, United Students.
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