Vol. 127, No. 120 Thursday, April 5, 2018
OPINION
SPORTS
A&C
RELIGION ISN’T THE SAME AS FAITH
RAMS WILL RIGHT THE SHIP IN 2018 RIVALRY GAMES
WGAC TO HOST SEXUAL ASSULT AWARENESS EVENTS
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Syron-Sullivan win
Marcelino Castañeda, Kevin Sullivan and Tristan Syron of the Syron-Sullivan campaign drink milk to celebrates their win of the ASCSU presidency. Syron and Sullivan also drank milk when a bill they authored, the water bottle bill, passed the senate earlier this year. Syron said they chose to drink milk to celebrate their presidential win because, “Why not?”. PHOTO BY DAVIS BONNER COLLEGIAN
Over 6,500 students cast their vote in ASCSU election By Natalia Sperry @Natalia_Sperry
Editor’s Note: Allec Brust and her running mate, Mareena Winchell, were previously employed for the Rocky Mountain Collegian. Brust was the former Collegian opinion editor, and Winchell was a former reporter for the Collegian arts and culture desk. Emotions were high and milk was chugged as the SyronSullivan campaign celebrated the announcement that they
will be the next presidential administration of the Associated Students of Colorado State University. With an election season that saw over 21 percent of the student body vote, Tristan Syron and his running mate Kevin Sullivan received 2,048 votes from students, officially electing them as the next student body president and vice president. The AubreyRoper campaign received 1,747 votes from the student body, while the Brust-Winchell campaign
and the Epperson-Hill campaign earned 1,085 votes and 1,046 votes respectively. The 6,524 votes cast this election season represents an increase of 3.23 percent from last year’s turnout, in which 5,454 votes were cast. Sunburnt and tired from campaigning, Syron, the ASCSU president-elect, said it was his campaign team that really won the election. “I’m nothing, I’m nothing without them,” Syron said. “It’s got
almost nothing to do with us. We just stood there.” Sullivan, the ASCSU vice president-elect, said parking and informative registration are some of the administration’s priorities moving forward, and he joked that bringing back the old Snapchat is on the agenda as well. Sullivan also credits the campaign’s success in part to his collaboration with Syron on passing the water bottle bill in the ASCSU Senate. The bill will fund the installation and retrofitting of
new water bottle refilling stations in older buildings on campus. Parking, increased access to a U+2 waiver and the creation of a bartering app to facilitate affordable student exchanges were some of the main policies central to the Syron-Sullivan platform. Syron and Sullivan plan on making those policies and action the main priority in their executive roles.
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