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Bolton wins in close election Jennifer Guarino Managing Editor When SGA President John Gardner announced his succes sor, President-elect Trey Bolton wasn’t there to hear his name. He arrived several minutes later as spectators were departing from Hearth Lounge. More than 40 students turned out to hear the election results. Bolton won by four votes. Bolton received 608 votes. He needed 604 to win. “Our new president won with 50.3 percent of the vote,” Gardner said. “You need 50 percent plus one vote.” Bolton ran against Brian Feeley and Cameron DeJong. Feeley received 35 percent of the vote and DeJong got 14 percent. “It goes to show you how important one vote is,” Gardner said. A record number of students voted. Barb Carlton, SGA adviser. said 1,236 ballots were counted. “This is the biggest voter turnout I’ve seen since I’ve been here,” she said. Carlton has been SGA’s faculty advisor for eight years. The last election in which more than 1,000 students voted was 1996. That year was the first time votes were tallied by com puter. “We had a record number of students voting in the election because the candidates tried hard to get their names out there,” President John Gardner said. “They did a lot of leg work talking to people, printing flyers and shaking hands.” “People came out because they knew it would be a tight race and they knew all three candidates had a following,” Gardner said. Vice Presidential-elect Alan Medeiros agreed. “The posi tive actions of the campaigners motivated much of the student body to vote,” he said. Ballots were counted by a Scantron machine. Two ballots were discarded. One was unread able and the other was illegal. Executive secretary and sophomore class secretary/trea surer races were contested. Megan Williams was elected sophomore class secretary/trea surer with 56.2 percent. She ran against Jennifer Cooper. Susan Denny won 56.7 percent of the vote for executive secretary. Denny ran against Lyndsay McMillen; Christian Wiggins ran un opposed for the executive trea surer position. The constitutional amend ments passed with 81.3 percent support. The amendments changed the wording from Elon College to Elon University. The judicial pro cess was reformatted to put it in line with standard format and clari fied the roles of succession of ex ecutive and class officers. Adam Waterson / Photography Editor The new Student Government Association executive staff was announced Tuesday night in Hearth Lounge. Pictured below are Secretary Susan Denny, Vice President Alan Medeiros and President Trey Bolton. Christian Wiggins will serve as treasurer. Adam Waterson / Photography Editor Current SGA President John Gardner congratulates his successor, Trey Bolton Tuesday night after election results were announced. SURF highlights student achievements Dan Schrot Reporter The student undergraduate research forum (SURF) will fea ture 160 presenters in 110 indi vidual presentations April 4, mak ing it the largest number of par ticipants ever. Formed in 1993, the first forum consisted of 19 presenters. SURF has grown tremendously over the years and this year’s par ticipants more than double those who presented last year. SURF presentations are “opportunities for students to present their work to a commu nity of scholars. It’s a great op portunity for the Elon College community to highlight student scholarship,” Undergraduate Re search Programming Advisory Committee member Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler said. Dr. Maurice Levesque, who leads SURF at Elon, agreed. “Graduate schools look for stu dents who have made an invest ment with their undergraduate studies and look for preparation outside of the classroom,” he said. Levesque believes the in crease in participation this year is due to a number of factors, includ ing increases in student involve ment, mentoring from faculty and the quality of work from students. SURF offers many benefits to students. Those who partici pate have an open forum to cel ebrate and showcase their re search, artististic and creative skills. Presentation styles will vary from person to person and topic to topic. The forum also gives many students the oppotunity to commun- gee SURF on page 3
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