The SGA has a new Administrative Vice President

 After impeaching the first administrative vice president for discrimination, the Student Government Association has welcomed Dave Daly as its replacement.

           Junior music business major Daly was voted in as over his opponent, Katee Ingram, a junior in human services.

            "I'm relieved because I said in the beginning that it didn't matter if Dave or I won, I would be happy," Ingram said.

            With many political races, there is a lot of "mud-slinging" and bad-mouthing the opponent.

             "Katee and I decided not to heavily campaign, like with flyers and such. We wanted to keep politics out of it as much as possible. The only campaigning we did was the video on the kiosk," Daly said.

            The candidates also put each other in their Facebook statuses, asking students to vote, but if they didn't want to vote for them, their opponent would also be a good choice.

            Even with all of the respect for each other as candidates, there were some skeptics in the school who were upset that there even was an election, saying that Daly and Ingram voted to impeach Chris Shadrock so they could take his place.

            Ingram said that students were angry and she received personal attacks.

            "Because I supported the impeachment so people thought I had alternate motives," she said. Daly on the other hand said he didn't receive any personal attacks.

            "I had nothing but support during the entire election," he said.      

            Even though Ingram didn't win, she is still happy for Daly.

            "People think that our support for each other was fake but we really did support each other, and there's not a doubt in my mind the he will do a great job," Ingram said. The candidates even voted for one another during the election.

            Daly is very happy about his win.

            "I'm honored that the student body elected me," he said. Daly wanted to be administrative vice president because he felt that he was very qualified and wanted to gain experience on the executive board.

            Though 20 percent of the student body did vote, most of the student body didn't. Victoria Rouleau, a sophomore in business knew about the elections but didn't vote.

            "I didn't know a lot about the candidates so my vote wouldn't be all that fair," Rouleau said. She also said that she doesn't know much about SGA but she knows it's important. "I'm just not interested in politics," she said.

            Though the SGA isn't all about politics, some students are unaware of what SGA is about.

            "SGA represents the student body. The SGA works with the students to work out any issues the students may have; we care about the students," Daly said.  

             "We need people who care about SGA and the student body," Ingram said.