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Officials name senior vice president, chief of staff
By Fiona Riley, Assistant News Editor • March 26, 2024

Vishal Aswani captures Student Association presidency

Student Association Sen. Vishal Aswani (SEAS-U) will be the next SA president.

Aswani, a junior, got 55 percent of the more than 3,000 votes cast edging out SA Sen. Kevin Kozlowski (U-at-Large) for the SA’s top job, the Joint Elections Committee announced after 9 p.m..

“It was one hell of a runoff,” Aswani said. “(Kevin and I) both played by the book. He did an amazing job.”

Kozlowski, a junior, congratulated Aswani after the results were announced and thanked his supporters.

“I want to thank everyone who came out to work for me,” Kozlowski said.

He added, “I look forward to getting some sleep.”

Aswani said the first thing he is going to do is “relax.”

“This is an experience I am glad I will never have to do again,” said Aswani of the campaign process. “They always say by far the election is the hardest thing to do.”

The SA president-elect said he could not have won the election without the help of his friends.

“People always say when you run a campaign you get disconnected from everyone around you,” Aswani said. “I feel like it was the opposite for me. My friends who never wanted me to be affiliated with the SA are standing right here next to me.Its all about friendship in the end.”

Ben Balter, chairman of the JEC, said he is proud of the outcome of the elections.

“Overall I think it was a free and fair election,” said Balter, a junior. “I am really proud of the candidates, I think they have run a sportsmanly race.”

Balter said his committee made sure to focus on the election at hand rather than violations.

“If you compare (the elections) to last year, you really see a broad paradigm shift,” Balter said. “We didn’t really publicize violations and hearings. We did not have a scoreboard. It was really about the elections and not about the violations.”

In the general elections held two weeks ago, Aswani garnered more than 37 percent of the vote to Kozlowski’s 30 percent.

Sophomore Kyle Boyer, vice president of community affairs, won the executive vice presidency two weeks ago and will join Aswani in the SA executive.

Aswani and Boyer will be sworn on May 1 at the SA transition luncheon.

Andrew Ramonas contributed to this report.

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