The Student Government Association freshmen election results are in after few days’ delay, with three out of five senators being appointed by SGA senate after elections because there were no candidates running for those seats.

The delay “mainly had to do with scheduling conflicts and several issues with blackboard,” said Ita Duran, general studies business junior and SGA commissioner of elections.

Jared Brooks, mass communication freshman and the only student running opposed, was elected to be senator of the College of Social Sciences. He said he doesn’t have an agenda for what he wishes to accomplish this year yet, but he is interested in hearing students’ concerns.

Haley Humiston, music education freshman, ran unopposed for class senator of the College of Fine Arts.

Carissa Marston, biology freshman, also ran for senator of the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences.

According to the SGA constitution, if there are any vacancies in a college senator position, SGA congress will appoint someone to that position by a two-thirds vote from a “qualified candidate pool.”

Since no freshmen ran for senator of the colleges of Business, Social Sciences, or Music and Fine Arts, congress appointed students to those positions.

Courtney Mattison, mass communication sophomore, was appointed to the sophomore class senator for the College of Social Sciences. She has proposed a Mr. and Mrs. Loyola Scholar competition that would offer $1000 and a prize package to two lucky students based on an on-stage question and answer session, talent contest, evening and school spirit wear. The proposal goes before the University Planning Board next Thursday. She is also pushing to provide mentors to freshmen in their chosen career field.

Samantha Lee, general studies business freshman, was appointed to freshman class senator for the College of Business. On her agenda is a mentorship program and building better relationships with Loyola Business alumns.

Elissa Moss, music industries business freshman, was appointed to be freshman College of Music and Fine Arts senator.

“The students in Music and Fine Arts are the future of the music industry and I want to make sure that their concerns are put into action,” said Moss.

Moss also said that she would like to expand the music industry forum to an online forum where music industries students can go to see information covered at the physical meetings. The online forum could also be a place for students to network. For example, when a band is seeking another member, they could post the vacancies there.

Jean-Paul Arguello can be reached at [email protected]