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President-elect wins tight one
By: John Hornberg
Posted: 4/21/08
In a close race last week, students elected Sigma Alpha Epsilon leader William Vosa Cavu-Litman to the Associated Students presidency, over current A.S. director of internal affairs Ann Grabowski.
Joining Cavu-Litman will be two additional members of the fraternity who ran in uncontested races, including vice president Albert Hsieh.
"I'm really happy that I've been chosen - and I only won by 25 votes," Cavu-Litman said. "It was really close, and I'm happy to have the support of the students behind me."
The final tallies had Cavu-Litman receiving 51 percent of the vote in the two-day election.
"For everyone that thought that their vote didn't count, or that it didn't matter to vote for Associated Students, it was a 30-point spread between the two of us," Grabowski said. "So your vote does count, it always will - it always has - especially in instances like this."
Less than 7 percent of the 32,000 students at SJSU voted. Students were given the option to vote at one of two polling locations Tuesday and Wednesday, or online through my.sjsu.edu until 8 a.m. on Thursday. Exactly 2,159 students did so.
In the race for director of communications, Joe West Hall resident adviser Jessica Phan won the three-way race against public relations major Azra Crnogorcevic and Kappa Delta member Cleary McTeague. Phan received 47 percent of the vote.
"I was really surprised," Phan said. "… A lot of students won't vote since they are unaware of A.S. in the beginning, so I'm pretty surprised that they would vote for me."
The eight uncontested races for executive positions and the board of directors were all elected.
The election leaves six open positions entering next semester, which both presidential candidates had said would be filled by appointments.
Spartan Daily staff Kate Taylor, Tommy Wright and Kyle Hansen contributed to this report.
Election Results:
Executive Branch:
President: William Vosa Cavu-Litman
Vice President: Albert Hsieh
Controller: Irene Baba
Board of Directors:
Communications: Jessica Phan
Community and Environmental Affairs: Sarah Bronstein
Extracurricular Affairs: Maricela Contreras
Programming Affairs: Tobi Richards
Student Fee Affairs: Melisa Cerda
Student Resource Affairs: Christopher Palumbo
Vacant Positions:
Director of Business Affairs
Director of Campus Advising
Director of Campus Climate Affairs
Director of External Affairs
Director of Faculty Affairs
Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities
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