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Observer Editorial Board | Friday, February 28, 2020
The tri-campus community has often been hailed for its sense of family. In moments of difficulty, we come together. But in recent years, that hasn’t always been the case — and the student government elections only spotlight this division. On Friday, we released a lengthy report detailing the tornado of allegations, sanctions and appeals in
Letter to the Editor | Monday, February 24, 2020
I ran for student body president in this election alongside my close friend, Jack Rotolo. Unfortunately, we didn’t gain enough votes to move into the runoff election, so our time as candidates was brief. However, I can say that even that short period was still one of the biggest learning experiences of my life. I
Serena Zacharias | Thursday, February 20, 2020
The 2020 student government election ended Wednesday night as juniors Rachel Ingal and Sarah Galbenski were elected student body president and vice president, winning the runoff election. The pair beat out junior Noble Patidar and freshman Connor Patrick — the other ticket to make the runoff. After failing to win 50% of the votes required
BridgeND | Monday, February 17, 2020
The two remaining tickets will take the stage Tuesday night in the runoff debate before the student government elections Wednesday. The Ingal-Galbenski and Patidar-Patrick tickets place contrasting emphasis on how to most effectively improve the lives of students at Notre Dame. The Patidar-Patrick ticket stresses the importance of campus presence. Their campaign centers around transparency
Serena Zacharias | Friday, February 14, 2020
The 2020 student government presidential election will continue with a runoff election between the Ingal-Galbenski ticket and the Patidar-Patrick ticket, Judicial Council announced Thursday night. Turnout was 42% of the electorate. The results were supposed to be announced Tuesday night but were delayed following a round of sanctions and appeals. The runoff debate and election
Observer Staff Report | Tuesday, February 11, 2020
The Election Committee of Judicial Council announced in a press release early Tuesday it is issuing a sanction to the Dugan-Pozas Garza ticket in response to multiple violations of the Judicial Council’s election regulations. The Dugan-Pozas Garza ticket is required to “cease all campaigning activity indefinitely” for the rest of its time in the election
Renee Pierson | Tuesday, February 11, 2020
The Judicial Council hosted the final debate for the regular student body elections Monday night at 9 p.m. in the Midfield Commons of the Duncan Student Center. Running for office this year are the following tickets, for president and vice president, respectively: junior Noble Patidar and freshman Connor Patrick; junior Connor Whittle and sophomore Jack