{"id":26487,"date":"2014-02-14T16:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T21:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=26487"},"modified":"2014-02-14T16:32:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T21:32:46","slug":"brock-students-choose-2014-busu-executive-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2014\/02\/brock-students-choose-2014-busu-executive-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock students choose 2014 BUSU executive team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26486\" title=\"elections-2013-nominations-banner1\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/elections-2013-nominations-banner1.jpg\" alt=\"elections-2013-nominations-banner1\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nBrock University students have chosen their 2014 executive.<\/p>\n<p>Roland Erman will take over from Cooper Millard as president.<\/p>\n<p>Erman, who didn&#8217;t have an opponent, received 3,313 votes (90.3 per cent), easily eclipsing the 50 per cent of \u2018yes&#8217; votes he needed.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Rose defeated Harish Aggarwal and Michael Nash for vice-president, finance and administration. Rose captured 2083 votes (54.4 per cent), while Aggarwal had 1,479 (38.6 per cent) and Nash finished with 270 (7 per cent).<\/p>\n<p>Drew Ursacki is the new vice-president, external affairs after getting 1,782 votes (48 per cent). He beat Kevin Wilson (1,482) and Erik Deacons (450).<\/p>\n<p>In the race for vice-president, student services, Paul Dermody had 1,743 votes (44.1 per cent) to defeat Lashkar Dehal (1,140) and Ernie Mehra (1,070).<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Yendt (87.4 per cent), Antonio Sergi (76 per cent) and Yi Gao (69.4 per cent) will comprise the new board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>The referendum motion was also voted down, meaning students won&#8217;t be required to pay a $32.00 flat fee, to be charged to all undergraduate students, to support the Brock University Students&#8217; Union Programing Levy.<\/p>\n<p>Of 3,528 votes, 72 per cent were against the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 4,199 students (23.4 per cent) voted over three days. The 2014 executive will take office May 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.busu.net\/representation\/elections-and-referendums\/election-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">2014 BUSU executive team<\/a><br \/>\nPresident, Roland Erman<br \/>\nVice-president, finance &amp; administration: Kyle Rose<br \/>\nVice-president, external affairs: Drew Ursacki<br \/>\nVice-president, student services: Paul Dermody<\/p>\n<p>Board of directors<br \/>\nChristopher Yendt<br \/>\nAntonio Sergi<br \/>\nYi Gao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock University students have chosen their 2014 executive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[133,740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26491,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26487\/revisions\/26491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}