By Jackson Chadwick | SGA President Karine Kanj & SGA Vice President-Elect Lukas Phipps
Junior Karine Kanj, the incumbent President of the SGA, has been re-elected for a second term with 49.42% of the vote. The political science and legal studies major campaigned last school year to serve for two years as the SGA President, and she has accomplished that tonight. Her challenger, sophomore Senator Marissa Michaela Kearney came in a close second, with 42.87%. Only 62 votes separated the two candidates, but it was enough to put Kanj over the top. Kearney, however, was re-elected to serve again as a senator for the class of 2022.
The race for Vice President has been won by junior Lukas Phipps, the current Commuter Senator At-Large; he won with a decisive 58.5%, to sophomore Senator Stephen Rykola, who garnered 33.79% of the vote; Phipps won 234 more votes than his fellow contender. However, like Kearney, Rykola was re-elected to serve as a senator for the class of 2022.
In other news, Youseff Hassan has been elected to serve as Secretary of the SGA. Hassan beat Boston Emmanuel 51.34%-37.06% (486-351 votes). However, Emmanuel was elected to serve as a senator for the class of 2023. And in the race for Treasurer, Angela El-Jazzar beat Juan Pastrana 54.38%-28.62% (515-271 votes). Pastrana will serve, though, as the senator for the Sawyer Business School.
Senators for the classes of 2021, 2022, and 2023 were also elected. At-large seats, including for Commuter, Art & Design, and Residence Life senators are pending due to write-in votes.
The incoming freshmen class, the class of 2024, will hold their elections for SGA in the fall.