Apathy this: SU by-election

By Stephanie Claggett

Voter apathy, rather than fierce competition, once again dominated the Students’ Union’s annual by-election.


Joel Lockwood is the new Oper-ations and Finance Commissioner while Dickie Freeman won the position of Events Commissioner.


Dustyn Richardson became the Fine Arts Faculty Representative with a grand total of 37 votes, and Philip James Schwieder won the coveted position in Kinesiology with an amazing 23 votes–a win by only five. Engineering fared slightly better with their new representative, Patrick Boyle, earning 138 votes.


Both Fine Arts and Kinesiology are relatively small faculties, but the general attitude regarding the by-elections seemed to be one of apathy. Many students feel the results of these elections don’t affect them, or that they didn’t have enough information to make a decision.


Good Luck!



OFFICIAL RESULTS:


2004 BY-ELECTION OFFICIAL RESULTS



Commissioners



Operations & Finance Commissioner


Lockwood, Joel: 389


Bibby, James: 333


Dattani, Birju: 174


Spoiled: 0



Events Commissioner


Freeman, Dickie: 355


Vuckovic, Nicholas: 252


Turner, Kyle David: 164


Smalley, Jeff: 144


Spoiled: 0



Faculty Representatives



Fine Arts Faculty Representative


Richardson, Dustyn: 37


Ranawaya, Ranjit: 10


Spoiled: 0



Kinesiology Faculty Representative


Schwieder, Philip James: 23


Leclerc, Celeste: 18


Spoiled: 0



Engineering Faculty Representative


Boyle, Patrick: 138


Mitschke, Rob: 96


Spoiled: 0