More than 94 percent of the total student population didn’t vote in the latest University Student Senate election, according the USS’s announcement Thursday.
The USS announced the election results for ten open senate seats for the 2017 to 2018 academic year through a university-wide email, as well as the number of votes cast. The voter turnout for the senate election, although higher than last year’s, was still considerably low.
After a delay in the election process, and a call for a revote due to the lack of candidate profiles, a total of 667 votes were received for the ten candidates, according to the email statement. This means that out of 11,376 students, only about 6 percent voted.
Last year’s student senate election had a lower voter turnout of 493 students, just under 5 percent of The New School’s student body.
The results for the new senators representing Lang are Danny Yoo and Ellen Plass, and the returning chair Serengeti A. Timungwa (Incumbent).
For NSSR, Ahad Ali, David Maddy, and Ingrid H. Kvangraven (Incumbent) were elected.
To represent Parsons, Kabeer, Esther Woo, Xuan Liu, Kiera Junghyun Kim (Incumbent), and Larisa Karamchakova (Incumbent) were chosen.
The new senators for the Schools of Public Engagement are Fagan Kuhnmuench and Coniqua Johnson.
At Jazz, Cemre Necefbas, who ran uncontested, will be the representing senator. And finally, to represent Mannes, Maftuna Tolipova was chosen.
Photo by Orlando Mendiola.