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Arun Jagarlamudi, senior biology major and current president of USGA, announces USGA election results and future goals.
The Undergraduate Student Government Association announced the Shark Wave party won most of the positions for its upcoming 38th administration at the State of the Union. The meeting took place in the Carl DeSantis Building Atrium on April 7 from noon to 1 p.m.
Alina Andrews, sophomore biology major, was elected president. She hopes that her administration can communicate effectively with the undergraduate students.
“I want everyone’s voice to be heard,” Andrews said. “I want people to feel as if they are able to openly communicate with me, and any issue they have, I would obviously need to know about it, and hopefully implement a solution to voice that platform.”
Harris Siddiqui, sophomore biology major, was elected executive vice president. For the 37th administration, he served as chief financial officer.
“I feel like USGA has definitely made me grow, [and] come out of my comfort zone. I wasn’t really someone that took public speaking really seriously in high school, but I thought in college I wanted to work on that, so I think that USGA definitely helped me come out of my comfort shell,” Harris said.
Lukah Varghese, sophomore biology major, was elected chief financial officer. As CFO, Varghese hopes the administration is transparent with the students they serve.
“I am really passionate about math and numbers, and I want to make sure students knew the transparency of where the money is going,” Varghese said.
From Shark Wave party, Mark Guirguis won non-traditional senator, Andrew Sourial and Benjamin Chang won positions for upperclassman senator, Rani Mehta won commuter senator, Akhil Revuru won residential senator, Lauren Brooks won veteran senator, Ciara Coss and Justin Gonzalez won positions for business senator, Khushi Raval and Sravika Chirla won positions for psychology senator, Sohan Masters and Varun Panjeti won positions for health care sciences senator, Marcus Marek Tortorella won computing and engineering senator, Nitya Shah and Shaharyar Khan won positions for osteopathic medicine senator, Brianna Kennedy won for law senator, and Mohit Belur and Mary Henain won positions for arts and sciences senators.
From Sharks United, Santiago Arango Narvaez won international senator, and Ayana Scott won education and criminal justice senator.
As an independent candidate, Kirsten Zonkowski also won for law senator alongside Kennedy.
For the 37th administration, Arun Jagarlamudi, senior biology major and USGA president, took over from Daniyal Baig, senior business management major.
Jagarlamudi said USGA gives students the opportunity to be active as leaders in the highest form of student leadership on campus.
“We’re an organization, we make change on campus,” Jagarlamudi said. “It’s a privilege to serve on USGA because we are in contact with all the deans, higher ups [and] faculty members. It is a privilege because we get to have conversations with them to benefit all undergraduate students on campus.”
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