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New ASG leaders set goals

Matt Levy, Senior Staff Writer

Miami University students have chosen their new student body president and vice president.

Nick Huber and Matt Frazier won the student government election last week with 56.73 percent of the vote, beating Bryan Klipsch and Jon Gipson, who received 40.2 percent of the votes, according to numbers supplied by current student body Vice President Tim Hogan.

"This university has given me so many opportunities to develop myself," Huber said regarding the election results. "This has really hit home for me in terms of humility and I'm just so fortunate for being able to do this."

Elected on the self-titled Legacy Party ticket, one of Huber's biggest priorities is continuing current student body president Heath Ingram's initiative of increasing school pride among first and second-year students.

"We all enjoy the lives we have as Miami students because of the contributions that have come before us, and once other students understand that, it will help them become stewards of the Miami experience in the future," Huber said.

Huber also discussed plans to make available to incoming first-year students the array of extra-curricular activities as they begin their time at Miami, incorporating members from athletics and various first-year programs into the weekly Associated Student Government (ASG) meetings and increasing the transparency of ASG's meetings through technology and student engagement.

"Increasing the history and (improving awareness) of current events on campus with first and second-year programming is a huge thing for us," Huber said. "Engaging students between orientation and the first day of classes is also something we consider urgent."

According to Huber, president Heath Ingram will spend the next few weeks teaching him how to be a successful president.

"My last responsibility is to give the incoming president as much support as I possibly can," Ingram said. "When my term ends on graduation day, (I want to be) confident that I have done all I can to help Nick have the most successful year he can next fall."

Ingram seemed pleased with the election results and both he and Huber noted how clean the election was from all sides.

"I really am thrilled he ran a great campaign, a clean campaign and I think he's going to continue to build off some of the work I did and I couldn't ask for any more than that," Ingram said.

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Taking the position of Vice President of Campus Activities is Brianna Picciuto, who won the position against Christian Trapp. Picciuto garnered 40.2 percent of the vote, beating Trapp's 33.5 percent.

"I'm really excited to learn about all the new events we have coming up first semester," Picciuto said. "I've already jumped into everything this week, kind of transitioning already. I'm looking forward to starting out right away even though I don't officially become VP of Campus Activities until next year."

According to Picciuto, current Vice President of Campus Activities Michael Emling has already started the process of acclimating her to her new role.

The only other cabinet position students voted for last week was the Vice President of Student Organizations, which taken by current ASG treasurer Meghan Wadsworth who ran unopposed.

According to Picciuto, ASG will begin the process of voting in the remaining cabinet positions Tuesday night, continuing over the next two to three weeks.


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