The results for the Student Association 2018-2019 presidential and vice presidential elections are in: the president will be Omar van Reenen and the vice president will be Catherine Millington.

Van Reenen, who is the first international student to be SA president at Oswego State, won by a landslide of 828 votes, where his opponent Andre Nichols received 256 votes. Fifty-nine students abstained. Millington beat her opponent Edward Kelly with 559 votes, where 357 people voted for Kelly. There were 227 abstentions for the vice presidential vote.

The new president and vice president will assume their roles at the end of this semester.

During his campaign, van Reenen said in a previous article from The Oswegonian “I hope to affect the campus by inspiring students to believe that the vision we share of campus where no student organization gets left behind is worth the fight.”

Millington said during her debate with Kelly that she planned to bridge the gap between SA and Greek Life, and would work to get fraternities and sororities recognition from SA.

Both van Reenen and Millington worked to pass a bill dedicated to sustainability this year. The resolution, “Plastic Action for Commitment to Sustainability Affirmation,” was turned down by senators, but caused for Auxiliary Services to move its plastic to-go cups next to the coffee cups in the dining hall to reduce the number of plastic cups students use while dining inside rather than the provided glass cups.

“I am only a freshman, but I truly feel that the way I am pursuing my role in the Student Association, as a senator, I am advocating for the student’s voices and making sure their voices are being heard by writing resolutions to try to change the issues and/or concerns they are seeing on campus,” Millington said in a previous article from The Oswegonian.

Van Reenen is replacing current SA President Dalton Bisson, and Millington will take over for current Vice President Daisie Bancroft.