Connect takes losses in stride
Small victories in the wake of defeat
ConnectKU took home 43 percent of the student vote, but still could not bring down United Students.
By Mary Sorrick (Contact)
Friday, April 11th, 2008
ConnectKU deals with defeat in election
ConnectKU fell 200 votes shy of the presidential and vice presidential nominations for this year’s Student Senate elections.
With 43 percent of the total vote, Austin Kelly, Lawrence junior, and Jason Oruch, Plano, Texas, junior, received 1,805 votes to United Students’ 2,005.
Photo by Rachel Seymour
Connect Student Senate vice presidential candidate Jason Oruch, left, and presidential candidate Austin Kelly, right, listen as the United Students were annouced the presidential and vice presidential winners.
Members of ConnectKU gathered at Set’em Up Jacks Bar and Grill Thursday night for the announcement of the election’s results, read live on KUJH.
Austin Kelly, presidential candidate for ConnectKU, said he thought his coalition did well in many of the smaller elections, despite falling short in the vote for president and vice president.
“We had thought we were going to win.” Kelly said. “It just turned out the students didn’t respond to it the way we hoped.”
Kelly said he thought ConnectKU did a good job emphasizing student initiatives and student input in its campaign. Some of the coalition’s proposed projects included the WiKUpedia Project, the initiative to clean up Potter Lake and a push to replace Outlook Express with Gmail as the University’s e-mail provider.
Jason Oruch, vice presidential candidate for ConnectKU, echoed the sentiment of many of the coalition’s members.
“I thought it was going to be very close,” Oruch said. “I’m very disappointed.”
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