Due to the resignations of Class of 2011 Vice President Isa Abney and Community Service Officer Andrew Edwards '09, elections?beginning on Wednesday and ending Thursday?were held to fill the positions.
Abney will be succeeded by Grant Easterbrook, who received 71 votes.
Abney resigned in December, citing family issues and the need for increased attention to the order of his personal life. In an e-mail sent to the Class of 2011, Abney wrote, "Personally, I felt that if I could not give 110 percent of myself to the class, than I was doing you all a disservice."
Easterbrook said he is excited about the win, saying that he had wanted to run for the position last semester, but was prevented from doing so by an illness.
He said he plans to follow through on his campaign promises.
"My whole campaign was based on that fact that I wanted to do more than just plan as vice president," he said.
Easterbrook said he hopes to eliminate the $2 charge for forgotten cards at the dining halls, reinstitute safe rides to Cook's Corner, reinvigorate school spirit, and establish enrollment guarantees?in which students who are denied enrollment to a class are given preference during registration for the following semester.
President of the Class of 2011 Houston Kraft said he does not believe it will be difficult to integrate Easterbrook into the existing administrative network. "He seems like a great guy with good ideas," Kraft said of Easterbrook. "I'm super excited to work with him."
Also elected Thursday night was Community Service Officer Jeremy Kraushar '09, who ran unopposed, receiving 62 votes. Like Easterbrook, Kraushar said he had wanted to run last year, but found himself busy with baseball commitments. Kraushar is already getting down to business; he told the Orient he will meet with the Center for the Common Good and the Community Service Resource Center next week to identify different "community service activities for my class so everyone can get involved."