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While both are veteran SA Senators with two years' experience, one ran the only full slate of the year's election with a team that almost swept the senate seats. The other was the only presidential candidate to run as an independent with no vice president or senate candidates.
As junior Marc Abanto and sophomore Nicole Capp look forward to this week's runoff election on Wednesday and Thursday, they are also looking back on what helped them get this far.
Abanto's Student Union slate members won all of the undergraduate senate seats for undergraduate At-Large, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and Elliott School of International Affairs. Student Union supporters, who could not officially run on the slate because of Joint Elections Committee rules, won undergraduate seats in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of Public Health and Health Services. Senator-Elect Matt Cohen (SoB-U), an independent, was the only undergraduate student elected who was not associated with the Student Union.
"Running on a slate is such a great experience," Abanto said in an interview the day after the results were announced. "Just to have a unifying experience - win or lose - you come out with something positive."
SA Senator Nathan Brill (SoB-U), who won reelection with the Student Union, said slates are most helpful for students who do not have experience within the SA.
"As someone who was an SA outsider, but had a lot of good ideas, I wanted to get involved and help," said Brill, a junior. "But navigating complex campaign rules without a slate would have been difficult."
