Student Association elected 23 representatives to its general assembly Monday night, filling each available seat in the College of Arts and Sciences and Martin J. Whitman School of Management.

In addition to elections, SA reported its discussions with the Board of Trustees regarding plans for next year’s MayFest, including a system to provide guest passes for friends of students and recent alumni.

Feedback on last year’s MayFest in Walnut Park showed guest passes were the most requested change for the coming year, said SA President Jon Barnhart.

‘If you look at the old MayFest, one of the draws was having friends come over from other schools, and so we want our new version of MayFest to offer that, as well,’ Barnhart said.

Barnhart said it’s too early to tell how Euclid Avenue parties will be handled, but said he believes Mayor Stephanie Miner will maintain her stance on the issue to keep a strict police presence in the neighborhood.

SA also elected three students to University Senate, the governing body of the university, and two to the Finance Board, which recommends funding for the student organizations’ events SA votes on.

‘We’ve never had this many people elected at one time as long as I’ve been in assembly,’ said Andrea Rosko, the chair of the Board of Elections and Membership, who has been in SA for two years.

The elected students, mostly underclassmen, answered questions from SA members about what they could bring to their individual schools and to the university as a whole. They spoke about improving the issue of overcrowding in residence halls, promoting campus organizations to new students and working to establish an undergraduate program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

One student each was elected from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the College of Visual and Performing Arts, the L.C. Smith College of Engineering and Computer Science, and the School of Architecture.

One seat is still available in the School of Architecture, one in the School of Information Studies, one in L.C. Smith, three in the College of Human Ecology, three in the School of Education, seven in VPA and three in Newhouse. The Finance Board has four open seats.

SA will hold another round of elections at its meeting next Monday night at 7 p.m. in Maxwell Auditorium for students who missed this Monday’s meeting. SA will also elect a recorder to its cabinet next Monday night.

From Arts and Sciences, freshmen Nicholas Iaquinto, Dylan Lustig, Philip Alampi, Shane De Vreese, Alexandra Curtis and Brittany Andrews; sophomores Amy Snider, Elise Balaban and Jenny Choi; junior Alex Feigenbaum; and senior Katie Lewinski were elected.

From Whitman, freshmen Alyssa Brennan, Mitchell Heckma, Jake Poznak, Preston Peters and Michael Laidley and sophomore Cineve Gibbons were elected.

Freshman Sean Dinan was elected from L.C. Smith. Sophomore Shakira Smith and freshman Celestine Currie were elected as representatives from the iSchool. From the School of Architecture, freshman Tyler Rump was elected. The elected Newhouse representative is freshman Kerry O’Connell. Freshman Gregory Boilard was elected as a representative from VPA.

Sophomore Michelle Desir and junior Britni Jefferson were elected to the Finance Board.

Sophomore Minjun Lin, junior Bonnie Kong and junior Andy Swab, a former editor at The Daily Orange, were elected to University Senate.

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Published on September 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm