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Foote’s Stand Columbia won a close three-way race with Issac Lara’s ReNew CU and Eugenio Suarez’s Naked Party. Stand Columbia received just over 47% of the vote in the first round of runoff voting, increasing to 52% in the second round. Foote told Bwog, “I’ve learned a lot, and seen sides of Columbia I’ve never seen before, while talking to hundreds of students and hearing from all of the wonderful candidates. My team and I hope to use this energy, and channel it into productive change. We’re able and willing, and looking forward to the rest of the semester and an amazing year.”
In the 2011 presidential race, Sean Udell and Alexandra Coromillas defeated Nuriel Moghavem and Zack Susel, with 56.5% of the vote. They’ll be joined by Tom Amegadzie, Sonya Chandra, and Roxanne Unger as class reps. In other contested races, Kenny Durrell won the two-year Senate seat by a mere 23 votes over Keianna Dixon, and Ganiatu Afolabi and Ryan Cho won the student services representative position. Full results, and tables, after the jump.
CCSC Exec Board: Stand Columbia
President: Learned Foote, Campus Life: Andrea Folds, Comms.: Karishma Habbu, Finance: Brandon Christophe, Policy: Andrew Nguyen
2011 President/Vice-President
President: Sean Manning Udell, Vice President: Alexandra Coromilas
2011 Representatives
Tom Amegadzie
Sonya Chandra
Roxanne Unger
2012 President/Vice-President
President: Aki Terasaki, Vice President: Sarah Chai
2012 Representatives
Jasmine Senior
Anoushka Vaswani
Virat Gupta
2013 President/Vice-President
President: Alex Jasiulek, Vice President: Michelle Vallejo
2013 Representatives
Ryan Mandelbaum
Eleanor Stein
Natalie Weiner
Senate
Kenneth Durell
Academic Affairs
Annie Tan
Pre-Professional
Kerry Morrison
Student Services
Ganiatu Afolabi
Ryan Cho
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@'09er Learned Foote won? That is truly a misfortune.
@Anonymous I <3 SaRAH Chai! She is awesome!!
@um if you guys all think everyone in student government is such crap, why didn’t you run and totally change the system with YOUR visionary ideas? and what are they exactly? just out of curiosity.
@this, this, this. a million times, this.
@Anonymous I would like to see a “No parties” party — absolutely no money going towards “free food” events, parties, spirit-building exercises, anything. Just have student government set up SOLELY as a policy lobbying organization. Make student government as boring as the University Senate.
And if you enjoy the free food so much, spin that off into a separate ABC student group. Call it the Spirit Events Club. Or hand it over to Bacchanal or something.
@okay Great. I’m not voting for the “no party” though. I want my free food, and don’t give much of a crap bout the rest of it.
@you must be kidding “spin that off into a separate ABC student group”? Really? Do you have any clue how much more bureaucratic hassle would be involved?
ABC is an administrative puppet. It’s sole purpose it to create the appearance of peer government, when in reality it has no power. It simply adds another layer of abstraction and another round of paperwork to the already overly bureaucratic payment process.
SGB to the end – representing TRUE student government.
@heya hey Beezly, shut the fuck up.
@Anonymous Isn’t SGB the equivalent of ABC? Doesn’t an administrator eventually sign off on all those forms?
@SEAN UDELL IS MY HERO!! seriously, how can you not like this kid?? learned on the other hand…(or foote hahahaha)
@Anonymous WHYYY did learned foote win yet again? Why Columbia, why? ReNew CU’s campaign was frikkin’ amazing and they seemed genuinely excited.
@well Spec, CU Dems and Republicans all endorsed Learned. Independently. For a reason. Figure it out yourself.
@Anonymous YAY AKITO <3
@Educated Hande I won!
@Excited I’m super excited to see what Learned and Sean will do this year. They have been great leaders in the past and I know that they will go above and beyond for all of us because they rock!
@Co-President of the Virat Gupta Fan Club VIRAT GUPTA = MY HERO. real talk.
@student govt is gay that is all.
@wassssssup yo student council is da bomb yall
@Sarah Chai I’m sorry to hear that you’re disappointed with the results, but I wish you would have contacted us with suggestions or run yourself if you weren’t happy with the 2012 council; it would have been great to see more interest in the 2012 election. Also, we asked Virat & Anoushka to join our ticket because we heard from other people that they were interested in CCSC & that they have done some awesome things while holding other leadership positions on campus. They are not best friends of either me or Aki but hopefully we’ll become really great friends after working on council for a year together. If you have any other complaints/comments/suggestions, I’d be happy to speak with you. You can email me at sbc2122@columbia.edu. Thanks!
@Sarah Chai Sorry, this is a response to “Disappointed…” two posts up!
@Excellent. Not to press the point too much, but “Erudite P. Hand” now feels he may have a chance of winning next year. The glass ceiling has been broken.
@Disappointed... … at the continuation of the CCSC is a clique and only friends of the council get added every year and live off the name of one or two members.
Personally, I’m really disappointed with the results.
As a rising junior, I do not support the 2012 unopposed elections, and simply replacing two of the really good class reps who have deservedly moved on to better things with aki and sarah’s friends.
@you sir Know absolutely nothing. They will do a great job. And Kenny is going to do a great job in Senate and Brandon will do a great job on the E-board. And plus, if you had such a problem you should have ran
@Wow band G(TB)^2
Ryan, Natalie, and Eleanor way to take over the world
@Anonymous Um, you mean CCSC’s new president is Learned Foote. Last I checked, they aren’t the only student council on campus.
@Anonymous how boring same old fools
@LEARNED!!! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES! PRINCIPLES!
@Anonymous why does this thread sound like one big circlejerk?
@cos it’s bwog.
i mean that with love.
@Anonymous Sean Udell was a great candidate, but I would’ve loved to see some new blood in our senior year. I’m thinking of a strong leader named Doetsch. Reuben Doetsch….
@Anonymous CONGRATULATIONS TO LEARNED!!!
@results eywa be praised.
next year will be golden
@ew avatar
ew ew ew
@Disappointed Rude? Not so much. I acknowledge our board’s competence. We simply could have had so much more.
@YOU ARE ALL RUDE Grow up. As an outside observer, all of these people are committed to Columbia and they are involved. There should have been a manners party. Maybe you all can manage to learn some.
@seriously guys? congrats to all winners! and to all candidates – what fantastic races this year!
with regard to the exec board, learned will do an excellent job and certainly has the experience to back it up. i agree that his board has a lot to learn – i hope they won’t sit back and ride off of his talent but will step it up. there is a lot of columbia administrative bullshit that needs to be overcome – tough task ahead!
that being said, i think both of the other parties were fantastic. while i didn’t know much about naked (campaign could have been much stronger), i thought that renew cu was amazing with a) getting a very diverse ticket together, comprising of all different areas of the columbia community b) campaigning! who didn’t see a renew cu video or poster?
overall, those of you who are hating on this board are immature and need to get over yourselves. don’t use bwog to broadcast personal vendettas, use it to exercise real opinions. and if you can’t do that? please try to get a life…
@also, cocks.
@not mad, just disappointed It’s really frightening that this school doesn’t see through Learned–why do we let him run everything? Some really great people were up and yet everyone just picks the same person who only pursues some minority-specific issues. Rawr tyranny.
@Ryan Big congratulations to all those elected. Next year’s gonna be a great one for CCSC!
@Dylan Twin!
@Ryan TWINZ
@Anonymous This disappoints me overall. I don’t understand how this could have happened. Truly shocking.
Congrats tho Gani
@CUMB Natalie, Eleanor and Ryan, you make us proud. Congrats! g(tb)^2
@if kamal wins esc elections, you bet your tuition money that we will have subpar senior events. at least sean tries, albeit he and his council dont go outside of the box. kamal?? no one, not even his own council, can work with him.
someone better save senior year, or ill be PISSED. thats all i care about – senior year. not who won or lost..if you won, you better create a stellar, FUN, memorable senior year.
i speak for most of 2011, so don’t fuck up, PLEASE.
@Fuck yourself you don’t speak for ME
@Anonymous this was amanda tan’s election speech, wasn’t it?
@alum if you’re depending on student council for a fantastic senior year, you’ve got much bigger problems. there’s plenty of fun to be had in other ways before you graduate. spend time with friends, get off campus, don’t worry about classes so much. you’ll be drunk enough, don’t worry.
@Anonymous it’s not like the elections aren’t fixed already – get over it
@lalalalala YESSS! Andrew, Aki, Sarah, Brandon!
@Anonymous Thank God Nuriel lost!
God knows he has such a power-trip and a stick up his ass.
@Amen. Amen to that.
@Anonymous You clearly have a vendetta against Nuriel for some reason, or just don’t know him. He’s someone who has dedicated tons of time and energy to improving Columbia, be it through COOP, CIRCA, URC, or CCSC. It’s been a tough week for him, so lay off. Also get ready for a senior year of subpar events. Here’s to hoping Sean can get his act together…
@Shut up, Nuriel. Keep your resume to yourself.
@Dude You’re a bastard. Nuriel is a good guy.
@Fuck the Haters you’re full of shit. nuriel is the man.
@Nuriel is the fucking man. Clearly you’ve never observed his facial hair acrobatics.
@surfin' UWS Remember Columbia, what has been Learned cannot be UNLearned. AYO!
AYO!
@Anonymous i’m glad that learned won because he is way more qualified than all the other candidates, but it’s a sad realization that the rest of his party is severely underqualified. i didn’t vote for his party just because of that, but like i said, i’m extremely glad for learned.
@Anonymous you guys are all downers. i’m happy about the results. congratulations to everyone who won!
@nice way to belittle 807 people. Quit whining b/c your candidates lost, they all did a great job campaigning and these are the results. Don’t put down the winners b/c you have to deal with them for the next year do you might as well be optimistic.
@thats because the only people that vote are the lame friends of the lame people that end up winning
@Congrats 2013, G(tb)^2
@sigh This is a sad day for America….
@Congrats Natalie, Eleanor and Ryan! G(tb)^2!
@Let it be known that Kenny Durell is the shit.
@Disappointed Learned may have deserved the win, but the rest of his board have a lot to learn. As a rising senior, I am disappointed at the results for both executive and senior board. We could have had warm, personable, and genuinely interesting representatives acting on our behalf, but instead have to accept the ones who have been perpetuating the problematic dynamic underlying CCSC for the past three years.
@All they did was repeat themselves As a rising junior, I unfortunately agree. Unqualified and underwhelming.
@cc'11 i very much agree about the 2011 exec board. although roxanne unger is a nice win, the rest of the board is same old, same old bs. congrats to learned!
@Anonymous Yeah. Clearly Columbia wants to keep electing the people who do nothing and know nothing. We could have seen some fresh, genuinely excited faces but instead next year will suck.
@Karishma Habbu Hmm – I am sorry that some of you are so disappointed, but do give us a chance. The rest of us on Learned’s ticket have no intention of living off his talent – this campaign, as a small example of the way we work, could not have been so successful without a total, committed group effort. As for saying we’re under-qualified – I can only say that we have every hope and every intention of proving that statement wrong :)
@for real No offense, but this stuff is not brain surgery. With a little advice from Learned, and lots of dedication, I’m sure you’ll all be fantastic!
@Seriously??? Karishma and Brandon combined have as much experience as any other ticket combined.
@Dylan :'(
@Anonymous yay learned!! you deserve it
@Anonymous Congratulations to Learned and his ticket, they’ll do a phenomenal job :D
@graduating senior haha! is that really his name? He would of had my vote just on that…
@Anonymous would *have