Associated Student Body senators voted four new open seat senators into office and confirmed 36 nominations for the other ASB branches at the ASB Formal Senate meeting at the Gertrude C. Ford Ole Miss Student Union on Tuesday, April 21.
Corey Kingery, Eli Keel, Paul Winfield and Ryan Ostrowski were confirmed as the new open seat senators. Kingery, Keel and Winfield are veteran ASB members who ran in the ASB spring elections this year.
Kingery and Keel ran for ASB Vice President, but both lost to current ASB Vice President Trey McKean. Winfield ran for treasurer and was defeated by Jackson Doss.
“I ran for treasurer and I lost, but losing teaches everyone a really important lesson,” Winfield said. “You can’t only love something when you win.”
Ostrowski, a sophomore criminal justice major from Nashville, Tenn., and a first-time ASB senate candidate, garnered support for his idea that the university host a spring concert series in the Grove.
“I would like to propose an idea to implement a spring concert series in the Grove to promote not only a selling point of the university, but also to promote the student music organizations that we have here,” Ostrowski said. “We have a lot of very gifted music students and a very gifted music program.”
The open seat senators were elected through a ranked voting system implemented by ASB Attorney General Lucy Allen.
The ASB senators also confirmed all the nominations for positions in the president’s cabinet, the legislative council, the secretary’s department and the department of justice. Before the nominations were presented to the senate floor, ASB executives conducted interviews to select nominees for their respective open branch positions and presented these teams to the senate.
All nominees were confirmed unanimously. The nominations are as follows:
President’s cabinet
Luke Habeeb as chief of staff
George Monroe as deputy chief of staff
Brady Moore as executive liaison
Evans Reynolds as joint governance liaison
Alexis Ring as principal of academics
Sarah Claire Sypeck as principal of athletics
Mason Johnson as principal of health and wellness
Emma Scruggs as principal of infrastructure and environmental affairs
Jack Turrentine and Ava Olive as co-principals of external affairs
Abby Seney as principal of housing
Josie McCarey as principal of student life
Mafati Bah as principal of inclusion and cross-cultural engagement
Wilson Engeriser as principal of first-year encounters
Summer Mocknick as director of accessibility
Legislative council
Evelyn Coon as vice president’s chief of staff
Ben Bailey as executive assistant
Lillian Prather as parliamentarian
Davis McQuirter as director of senate affairs
Paul Tusa as sergeant at arms
Jess Voge as events coordinators
Vivian Harrison and Rozlynn Smithwick as legislation monitors
Nicky Ewers as campus liaison
Danica Beachy as legislative aide director
Zachary Rifkin, Julia Daigle and Kayt Davis as members of the legislative coordination team
Secretary’s Department
Hannah Polk as deputy secretary of internal operations
Olivia Gainey as director of community service
Julianna Horton as director of marketing
Leah Bagwell as director of photography
Ava Mize as director of executive affairs
Reese Aksamit as assistant director of legislative affairs
Ali Petrow as director of programming
Maria Fulbright as director of treasury marketing
Department of Justice
Sneha Vuyyuru as deputy attorney general of operations
