| McChesney
wins ASUSU presidency, credits his communication style
By Devin Felix
March 9, 2007 | ASUSU elections concluded Wednesday,
leaving 16 winners from the original 54 candidates,
with presidential candidate Peter McChesney beating
Staci Mecham by 347 votes.
Campaigning for final elections began Monday and the
winners were announced Wednesday evening. The winners
will take office after an inauguration April 20.
"All the people elected are dedicated, hard-working
individuals with great ideas," said Jacob Roskelley,
who won the race for executive vice president.
McChesney credits his win to the time and effort he
spent contacting and talking directly with students,
rather than simply "throwing fliers in their faces."
The winning candidates were ones who spent time among
the students having "quality contacts" and
explaining their goals, he said. He also tried to focus
his campaigning on campus housing and USU off-campus
housing, because up to 60 percent of votes in previous
years has come from the dorms.
McChesney said he knows many students take little
interest in ASUSU and think think it has little actual
power. While he recognizes the elected student officers
don’t run the university, they do make decisions affecting
the spending of hundreds of thousands of student dollars
and serve as a "mouthpiece" between students
and university administration, he said. Students would
have a better understanding of ASUSU and its purposes
if ASUSU’s duties and goals were better communicated,
which he hopes to do while in office, he said.
The election results, and vote totals are:
President
Peter McChesney 1531
Staci Meacham 1184
Executive Vice President
Jacob Roskelley 1717
Nate Naegle 886
Student Advocate Vice President
Bryan Olsen 1416
Christopher Barney 1017
Academic Senate President
Kevin Abernethy 2167
Athletics Vice President
Megan Darrington 2226
Campus Diversity and Organizations Vice President
Sonny Bryant 1299
MJ Tran 1279
Programming Vice President
Jake Cook 1321
Tyler Neal 1255
Service Vice President
German Ellsworth 1410
Tessa Taylor 1105
Agriculture Senator
Lisa Rose 131
Julie Ung 93
Business Senator
Edward Norton 205
Joseph Ure 145
Education Senator
Jacob Wilkey 330
Christi Olcott 176
Engineering Senator
Spencer Naser 201
Paul Wilson 150
HASS Senator
Nick West 410
Ben Pollock 244
Science Senator
Brittany Webb 241
Graduate Studies Vice President
Jeri Brunson 67
Natural Resources Senator
Katie Santini 39
Ben Abbott 22
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