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Andrew Ramonas, senior news editor at The Hatchet, is a senior from Naperville, Ill., double-majoring in journalism and political science. He has written for The Hatchet since October 2005 and has covered campus news as a senior staff writer and campus news editor. He has interned at the NBC London bureau and the Tribune Broadcasting Washington bureau. Andrew is interested in pursuing a career in broadcast journalism after college.
Alexa Millinger, The Hatchet's metro news editor, is a senior majoring in international affairs with a minor in Spanish. She grew up in Burlington, Conn. She contributed to Passports while teaching English in Paraguay.
Nathan Grossman, a campus news editor at The Hatchet, is a senior majoring in political science. He primarily covers student life at the University. He contributed to Passports while studying abroad in Prague, Czech Republic, in the spring of 2008. He is from Indianapolis.
Sarah Scire, a campus news editor at The Hatchet, is a junior double-majoring in political communication and English literature. After two years in the metro news section, she now focuses on campus issues, including campus development and the Student Association. She is originally from Windham, N.H., but has been known to tell people Boston is her "true" hometown.
Danielle Meister, The Hatchet's assistant news editor, is a junior majoring in journalism and mass communication with a concentration in political science. She has covered the academic beat since her sophomore year. She has interned at the United Nations and currently works part-time at Congressional Quarterly. Danielle is from Manhattan where she attended Poly Prep High School.
Emily Cahn, a staff writer covering the Student Association beat.
Student Association Sen. Vishal Aswani (SEAS-U) defeated SA Sen. Kevin Kozlowski (U-At Large) on Tuesday night to capture the SA presidency, the Joint Elections Committee announced at 9:24 p.m. in the Marvin Center Amphitheater.
Aswani, a junior, received 55 percent of the vote and Kozlowski, a junior, got 45 percent of the ballots cast.
Stay with The Hatchet and the Newsroom for more news on the election tonight.
Student Association Sen. Vishal Aswani (SEAS-U), a junior, and SA Sen. Kevin Kozlowski (U-At Large), a junior, will go on to the run-off election for SA president. Sophomore Kyle Boyer, SA assistant vice president of community affairs, won the SA executive vice presidency, the Joint Elections Committee announced Thursday night.
The results are not official and will be certified by the JEC on Friday.
The run-off election will be held from March 12 to March 13.
Stay with The Hatchet and the Newsroom for more news on the election tonight.
The Joint Elections Committee released the official results for the Student Association, Program Board and Marvin Center Governing Board on Friday. Almost 4,400 students participated in the general election, according to the JEC.
Student Association President Vishal Aswani (Junior) - 37.2%
Kevin Kozlowski (Junior) - 30.34% Ogheneruemu Oyiborhoro (Junior) (write-in) – 22.26%
Tarek Al-Hariri (Sophomore) - 6.38%
SA Executive Vice President Kyle Boyer (Sophomore) - 53.4%
Edward O’Neil (Sophomore) - 27.29%
Raven Burnett (Freshman) - 14.08%
Columbian College SA Senator, Undergraduate
Julie Bindelglass (Freshman) - 15.26% Michael Komo (Freshman) - 13.59% Christopher Pappas (Freshman) - 13.33% Logan Dobson (Freshman) - 12.16% Christopher Borchert (Freshman) - 11.7% Lee Barkalow (Sophomore) - 10.37% Maury Nolen (Freshman) - 9.68% Carl Preston Fisher (Freshman) - 7.96%
Welcome to The Hatchet’s live-blogging for the general elections. We will be updating through the night as the results come in. Stay tuned!
9:16 p.m. Joint Elections Committee starts the meeting and begins vote tabulation.
9:20 p.m. JEC chair Ben Balter begins counting the one paper ballot.
10:03 p.m. The JEC is still sorting and tabulating data. They first have to combine online voting (from the my.gwu.edu and law.gwu.edu portals), and then factor in the write-in votes, as necessary. Write-in votes will be read out loud once they reach that point. The JEC is required by the charter to announce all results together, even though some races might be known by members of the JEC before others.
10:38 p.m. The JEC has announced that they are 10-15 minutes away from announcing the results. They are counting the write-in candidates, and they will not be read out loud (per the charter — they had considered taking it a step further at one point).
The Joint Elections Committee established a “swear jar” at its meeting on Saturday, according to a JEC news release.
Election officials and candidates who swear in Marvin Center 411, the JEC office, will need to pay between 25 cents and $1 dollar, depending on the obscenity.
“THIS IS SUCH F****ING BULL***T!” said JEC Chair Ben Balter in the news release.
He added later in the meeting, “We’ve been running a pretty tight ship all semester.That doesn’t mean we need to start talking like sailors.”
The measure for the “swear jar” passed unanimously.
In the second part of my video posting binge, I am putting up one of my favorite GW traditions. Pamplona has the running of the bulls, New York and Boston have their marathons. GW has postering.
Once a year, at the crack of dawn, candidates and their volunteers gather on H Street to wait for a signal that tells them it is okay to put up campaign posters. What ensues is utter chaos. Utter, utter chaos. People sprint to hold prime locations for their posters while others put the actual posters up. It is insane.
Last year, I thought it would be a cool experience to tape the event, but with a twist. Using the iSight camera in my Macbook, I shot the video in time lapse and it was pretty neat. You can check it out here. Since then, people have asked me if I would do it again this year. Well, I obliged and here is the 2008 Postering video, complete with interviews. Check it out:
So when we started working on the 2nd Annual SA/Hatchet Debate, we here at The Hatchet thought that it would be neat to make a video to show at the event featuring old and current SA leaders, as well as administrators. Well, I took about a week to put together a collection of advice, memories and definitions from a diverse group of people affiliated with GW.
When the actual debate rolled around, technical difficulties along with some miscommunication prevented attendees from actually seeing the video. Here it is for your viewing pleasure:
Student Association Executive Vice President Brand Kroeger alerted The Hatchet to a series of YouTube videos uploaded by junior Rob Lockwood, who is running for undergraduate senator at large.
In one of the videos, “Workin Hard or Hardly Workin?,” Lockwood takes a break from “studying hard” and says what he will do if elected to the senate.
Tonight’s Hatchet-SA Debate starts at 7 p.m. in the Jack Morton Auditorium (in the Media and Public Affairs Building.) Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with light refreshments to follow the event.
The participating presidential candidates:
Sophomore Tarek Al-Hariri
Junior Vishal Aswani, SA Senator (SEAS-U)
Junior Kevin Kozlowski, SA Senator (U-At Large)
Junior “OG” Oyiborhoro, SA Senator (CCAS-U)
The candidates for executive vice president:
Sophomore Kyle Boyer, SA assistant vice president of community affairs
Freshman Raven Burnett
Sophomore Ted O’Neil, SA Senator (ESIA-U)
There will also be a video shown tonight: “On Leadership: Advice for the Future, from the Past,” produced by Sam Sakin, The Hatchet’s multimedia editor. The debate will be moderated by The Hatchet’s senior editor, David Ceasar, and the panelists are
Student Association Sen. OG Oyiborhoro will run a write-in campaign for SA president after the Joint Elections Committee did not approve his petition for SA president.
Read Thursday’s Hatchet for more details on this developing story.
In the same meeting, the JEC accepted Kyle Boyer’s petition was approved for SA executive vice president after e-mail addresses were validated as acceptable signatures. Boyer needed one more signature to have a valid petition.
