By
Maya Schechter
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Senate deems the ASA voting busses a success
Four UA students were welcomed into the ASUA organization at last night's meeting, when the vacant seats for senator and Supreme Court Justices were filled and unanimously approved by the Senate.
Gino Duran, a political science senior, was appointed by Ben Graff, Associated Students president, after former Sen. Danielle Roberts resigned last week to be with her family and new baby boy that she gave birth to yesterday.
Graff said that Duran was the next Senate candidate in succession according to the number of votes he received at last spring's ASUA elections.
"I am very committed to the ideas I ran for in my campaign last year, and I think it's good to have non-traditional students in the Senate," Duran said.
In addition to attending classes and working 50-60 hours a week, he is also president of the United Working Students Association, which he founded last March after he lost the Senate elections.
A special election will be held for a new president of the working association, Duran added, so that he will have more time to focus on ASUA.
Graff also appointed three new ASUA Supreme Court Justices - Jess Walsh, DeAnna Rivera and Kimberly Mettler - all of whom are UA James E. Rogers College of Law students.
"I have nothing but the utmost confidence in them," Graff said to the Senate before they voted for approval.
The five justices are hired to serve until they graduate from the UA law school.
The other two members of the Supreme Court, Robyn Kline and Dara Spiro, were appointed by past ASUA presidents, Graff added.
In other business, the Senate approved the appropriations board consent agenda of $1433.90 to four UA clubs.
Near the end of the meeting, Graff told the senators that the shuttle service that ASUA and ASA provided to get students to voting polls was successful and he had never seen something so effective before.
He added that the candidates who lost in local elections were wrong in blaming low student-voter turnout, because many students did in fact vote.
