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Max Goldberg and Yusuf Malik won by a landslide in last week’s Senate elections, bringing in 275 more votes than the nearest contender. Goldberg will be next year’s Senate president and Malik, vice president.
Final results showed Malik and Goldberg with 655 votes, candidates James Haug and Heather Yocum pulling in 380, Rich Lufkin and Alejandro Diaz taking 203, Tom Campbell and Chase Modry drwaing 170 and Darwyn Metzger and Drew Bonder taking 115.
“Max and I really got our ideas out to the students,” said Malik, “We worked really hard to get those votes because we want to make an impact on that school and do what we said we would.”
The losing candidates expressed support for the frontrunners and optimism about next year’s Senate at DU.
Metzger reflected on his campaign minutes after the winners were announced.
“We walk away from the campaign knowing a lot more about ourselves and additionally that the contacts and friends we have made have already intiated our goal of uniting the campus,” he said.
Campbell warmly accepted election results, complimenting the other candidates as well.
“All the candidates running would have done a great job as president,” said Campbell. “Max and Yusuf have done a lot for the school and will continue to improve the campus as President and Vice President.”
Current Senate President Chris Adams also announced next year’s Senators. The results are as follows: Shantel Jones (225) and Nick Sauer (233) will be as Senior Senators, Andreas “Dre” Horvei (234) and Jeremy Neil (230) as Junior Senators, Dan Cooper (264) and Lauren Goldman (230) as Sophomore Senators, Molly Brown (324) and John O’Malley (243) as AHUM/SOCS Senators, Jaime Conry (327) and Clinton Emmerich (314) as DCB Senators, Theo Chapman (113) and Brian Kelley (137) as NSME Senators, Steve Forbes (687) and Patrick Parrish (612) as On-Campus Senators, and William Cryer (230) and Elizabeth Roberts (176) as Off-Campus Senators.
The DU voter turnout of around 1,550 topped last year’s near 1,300, as 37 percent of students voted in the election. Though 4 percent more students voted than last year. The number did not reach President Adams’ goal of over 2000.
