The Tufts Community Union (TCU) Senate elected a new batch of leaders during its in-house elections last night.
While the TCU president is elected by the student body, all other positions are filled based a vote of incoming senators. Senior senators and those who will not be returning next year are not able to vote in the in-house elections.
Last week, sophomore Neil DiBiase was elected as TCU president and, as per last night's election, he will be joined on the TCU Executive Board by junior Bruni Hirsch as vice president, junior Evan Dreifuss as treasurer, freshman Scott Silverman as associate treasurer, freshman Duncan Pickard as parliamentarian and junior Alex Pryor as historian.
Committee chairs were also selected. Silverman will serve as Student Outreach Committee chair; sophomore Elton Sykes and freshman Xavier Malina as Administration and Policy Committee co-chairs; sophomores Jen Bailey and Emerson Luke as Culture, Ethnicity, and Community Affairs committee co-chairs; junior Amanda Richardson as Education Committee chair; freshman CJ Mourning as Services Committee chair; and freshman Callie Kolbe and junior Deborah Block as Special Projects Committee co-chairs.
Pickard, Silverman, Bailey and Kolbe, as well as sophomore Matt Shapanka and freshman Brandon Rattiner will each chair one of the six Allocations Board (ALBO) councils.
Dreifuss and Richardson will each be returning to seats that they held this year and Shapanka, Kolbe, Silverman and Pickard all have experience on ALBO.
No Senate Surveyors were elected this year and in their place the position of Student Outreach Committee chair was reinstated. Incoming President DiBiase said that having "one stronger chair" will be more effective than dividing responsibilities between two surveyors.
The elections were conducted by the Elections Commission (ECOM). All spots were contested except for the two Special Projects Committee co-chair seats, according to sophomore and ECOM Chair Adam Weldai.
DiBiase said that he is happy with the results of the election. "Honestly, the great part about this group of people is there was nobody who I couldn't have worked with," he said.
