Chants of “U-N-I-T-Y” drowned out the opposition as Peter Ucovich was named the next ASI president on April 30.

Ucovich, of the Unity slate, beat out Vision 2003’s Mohamed Hamada and Home Team’s Brandon Kline to capture the ASI presidency in a near sweep for Ucovich’s slate. Over 100 students gathered in the Redwood Room received the announcement just after 11 p.m.

“I’m ecstatic,” Ucovich said. “We had a great team.” Ucovich, the current Vice President of Finance, got nearly double the votes of Hamada and almost four times the amount of votes garnered by Kline. Ucovich got 55.4 percent of the votes, Hamada received 30.7 percent and Kline earned 13.9 percent.

The Unity slate also won two of the remaining three executive offices.

Unity’s Julio Velazquez easily won the Executive Vice President contest over Adnan Kussair of Vision 2003. Velazquez garnered 66.3 percent while Kussair got 33.7 percent.

In the race for Vice President of Finance, current Executive VP Luke Wood beat out current VP of University Affairs Zach Donohue and Jeremy Jameson in Vision’s lone executive victory. Wood got 47.8 percent of the vote, edging out Donohue, who received 42.0 percent of the vote. Jameson followed with 10.1 percent.

“I’ll do as much as I can for the students next year,” Donohue said amid a Unity celebration where he was one of only two Unity candidates to lose. Donohue, despite serving as both Director of the College of Arts and Letters and Vice President of University Affairs, has never won an ASI election. This was his third straight defeat.

Conversely, Wood has yet to lose an election. This was Wood’s third straight victory — though his closest call.

Luke’s twin brother Joshua Wood of the Unity slate will succeed Donohue as the new Vice President of University Affairs, after beating out Jackie Rodriguez, Jordan Aquino and David Wilbur. Wood received a commanding 57.2 percent, while Vision’s Rodriguez received 29.1 percent. Independents Aquino and Wilbur followed with 8.0 percent and 5.6 percent, respectively.

“It’s an amazing feeling,” Joshua said. “I can’t wait to get to work.”

Prior to the election results, Luke Wood expressed positive feelings toward working with his brother.

“That would be cool,” Luke said. “He’s much more moderate, but I can show him how the administration works.”

Referendum 1, dealing with easing up signature requirements to get student referenda on the ballot, passed by a 70 percent to 30 percent margin.

Referendum 2, which regards increased representation for graduate and undeclared students, also passed with 70 percent of voters being in favor of the change, while 30 percent disagreed.

Referendum 3, which lowers the minimum GPA requirements from 2.5 to 2.0 to hold ASI office, passed, though slightly less convincingly than the other two referenda. Sixty-nine percent of voters agreed with the referendum, while 31 percent opposed the measure.

All three referenda will take effect June 1, which is also when all elected officers will take office.

Unity’s Jessica Owen won the office of Director of Undeclared Students over Vision 2003’s Dominique Moore. Owen, who will be serving her second straight term as the Undeclared Director, received 62.8 percent of the vote while Moore received 37.2 percent.

Scott Armstrong of Unity will take the office of Director of Business after defeating Moses Njuki of Vision 2003 and Chris Lange of the Home Team. Armstrong, initially an independent candidate but a late-campaign addition to Unity, won the election’s closest race by six votes. Armstrong earned 38.7 percent of the vote, while Njuki followed with 37.2 percent. Lange, a forward for the CSUS men’s basketball team, followed with 24.2 percent of the vote.

Unity’s Vanessa Guerra, the younger sister of outgoing ASI president Eric Guerra, defeated Vision’s Izran Mohamad Salleh and independents Dzifa Duose and Hugo Cesar Aguilar to capture the Director of Engineering and Computer Science position. Guerra got 45.6 percent of the vote, while Sellah followed closely with 36.3 percent. Duose garnered 14.3 percent while Hugo Aquilar received 3.8 percent.

Following the results announcement, the elder Guerra voiced his support for his little sister.

“The Director of Engineering and Computer Science is the only director position that has written policy to talk to their department heads,” Eric said. “I think the ECS Director should get a raise, but the other directors would not allow it because they are jealous.”Alexis Clemons of Unity will be the next Director of Health and Human Services. She defeated Vision’s Van Nguyen, The Home Team’s Ryan Henretty and independent Taylor Tipton by receiving 56.8 percent of the vote. Nguyen followed with 29.6 percent, while Henretty got 8.3 percent and Tipton earned 5.2 percent.

The next Director of Social Science and Interdisciplinary Studies will be Unity’s Angel Barajas, who beat out Olgalilia Ramirez of Vision and The Home Team’s Scott Scheid. Barajas received 61.4 percent of the votes, while Ramirez and Scheid followed with 23.2 percent and 15.4 percent, respectively.

In the only other Vision victory of the evening, Xico Gonzalez defeated Unity’s Jodi Middleton and independents Justin Day and EJ Renner to win the office of Postbaccalaureate Director.

Gonzalez received 48.0 percent of the vote, while Middleton was close behind with 38.8 percent.

The vote margin was only nine votes in the traditionally anemic turnout for graduate students. Only 98 postgraduates voted this year, up from only 25 votes cast last year, when Hamada ran unopposed for the directorship.

Day and Renner followed with 9.2 percent and 4.1 percent, respectively.

Unity’s Jeremiah Garcia, Lorraine Armijos and Nicole Croly all won their unopposed races for their respective directorships.

Board of Directors newcomers Garcia and Croly will serve as directors for Arts and Letters and the College of Education, respectively. Armijos will serve her second straight term as the Director of the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.

Hamada will serve on the University Union Board for the upcoming two years. Joining Hamada with two-year terms will be Maria Tandoc and Johnna Magee.

Marcus Story defeated Elliott Stevenson to gain the vacant one-year term on the University Union Board.

Juliane Mora and Aleta Carpenter were successful in their bids to gain spots on the State Hornet Publication Board. They were the only two candidates who ran for the positions.

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