The Beacon - Feb. 24 - Issue 17

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The Vol. 112, Issue 17

BEACON The University of Portland’s student newspaper

Thursday February 24, 2011 www.upbeacon.net

UP voters speak

Rosemary Peters Editor-in-Chief peters12@up.edu

Zack Imfeld, president-elect

Last night, with the close of the ASUP election poll came the unveiling of the 2011-2012 executive board. Juniors Zack Imfeld and Chloe Ruffin cinched the presidential and vice presidential positions on next year’s ASUP Executive Board with 63.9 percent of the vote. “It feels exciting to be validated by the students and

to be recognized as a leader,” Imfeld said directly after hearing the elections results. Ruffin is excited as well. “I am so joyful, happy and very excited to start next year and make next year’s exec. board the best it has ever been,” Ruffin said. Sophomore Sean Ducey defeated incumbent and junior Hillary White with 55.3 percent of the vote, claiming the position of Campus Program Board Director. He received 55.3 percent of

the 1,358 votes cast, which is the highest voter turnout since ASUP shifted the election process to online voting. “I feel great,” Ducey said over the phone as his friends yelled congratulations to him in the background. “I am really excited right now. Every time I was in The Commons this week, I would tell people to vote for me for CPB Director.” Ducey, and most of the other

Chloe Ruffin, vice president-elect

Caitlin Chu, treasurer-elect

Kristin Johnson, secretary-elect

See ASUP, page 4

Sean Ducey, CPB director-elect

Photos by Bryan Brenize, Scott Chia, Kevin Kadooka and Alissa White | THE BEACON


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