The Spring 2007 USG election has received the lowest student turnout in history with only 742 students voting for our USG president out of an undergraduate student body of about 15,000. This is about one third of last year’s student turnout of 1,569.
According to Robert Romano, the President Pro-Tempore of the Senate, ‘This happens to be the lowest student turn out in history.’
In addition, the 16 senators running for the College of Arts and Science automatically gained their positions because there were 17 positions available. There were no candidates running from the other colleges, including the College of Engineering and College of Health Sciences. All but two positions, the USG President and Vice President for Student Life, were left uncontested.
