AMY WINKLER/Arizona Daily Wildcat ASUA Sens. Jennifer Reece and Doug Hartz embrace yesterday evening at Sharky's after being announced next year's executive vice president and president. Both Reece and Hartz won by commanding margins over their opponents, who were not present for the announcement.

Mansell tops Zipp in administrative vice president race

Senators Doug Hartz and Jennifer Reece were announced last night as the winners of the student government's two top jobs for next year.

In the Associated Students of the University of Arizona presidential race, Hartz beat his opponent Aaron Black by the largest margin in the last three years, receiving 78 percent of the votes to Black's 22 percent.

Reece garnered 83 percent of the vote in the executive vice president race, beating Wailele Sallas by more than 66 percent.

Sen. Jered Mansell won the race for administrative vice president, with 61 percent of the vote to Samantha Zipp's 39 percent.

Doug Hartz 78.06%

Aaron Black 21.94%

Scott Cheney was the top vote-getter in race for the 10 senate seats, with 48 percent of the vote.

For running-mates Hartz and Reece, who will take office May 1, one of the top priorities will be protecting student interests to state lawmakers.

"I will lobby the Legislature to change their faith in and view of higher education," he said.

Hartz said that in the midst of a state deficit approaching $1 billion, he faces problems few ASUA presidents have to deal with.

He also said the issue he campaigned on the most - the addition of a week long fall break - is one he will continue to push.

"My biggest challenge will be to have the entire student body know who ASUA is and what we do," he said.

Reece said their campaign was successful because they stayed visual - often riding a pedaled cart around campus in the last days of the election.

Surrounded by celebration at last night's announcement, Reece said she had not slept all week and was looking forward to eating her dad's home-cooked meals over spring break.

Black and Sallas were playing in a rugby match in San Diego and could not attend the announcement.

Sallas said he and Black were never able to gain support for their "student comfort" campaign, which included grass green on the Mall and misters at the Student Union Memorial Center.

"I think we went in there trying something different and had a great time," Sallas said.

Mansell said he lost hope in the final days of the election when Samantha Zipp won the endorsement of the Daily Wildcat and the men's basketball team.

He said that when he heard the results he "almost passed out."

Mansell said even though his campaign was not connected with that of Hartz and Reece, he believes he received a bump up due to their popularity.

Zipp said she was not surprised by the result of the race.

"It's very hard to come into ASUA if you're not in ASUA," she said.

She said the campaign was "fun" and "well worth it."

Zipp added that she believed her campaign failed after a complaint Mansell had filed against her in mid-February surfaced yesterday.

Zipp was disciplined after her campaign manager was reportedly seen tearing down one of Mansell's campaign fliers.

Elections commissioner Joe Rogers said Mansell should not have revealed the complaint on the last day of elections, as he believes it may have derailed Zipp's chances.

"For him to bring it up again was a lack of ethics," Rogers said.

Rogers said he could not provide a day-by-day, hour-by-hour breakdown of voting tabulations until the Center for Computing Information and Technology gives him the computer records.

Zipp said she will spend next year relaxing.

"This campaign has been more stressful than my three years of college," she said.

She said she was ready to party after hearing the results.

"I put up a good fight," she said. "I really encourage people who aren't in ASUA to run."

Cheney, who topped the other 16 candidates in the senate race, hopes to increase student awareness and involvement in clubs and organizations, possibly through a marquee in the Student Union Memorial Center.

"The students put their vote out and I really want to serve the population," he said.

Stacey Nelson, Adam Bronnenkant, Will Harris, Victoria Ruan, Daniel Suh, Peter Wand, Andrew Hottovy, Jason Poreda and Travis Pritchett finished out the top 10 - all winning senate seats.

Colin Brown, who came in eight in last week's primary, was pushed to the 11th position, while Poreda stole his spot by three votes.

"I feel a little disappointed, but at the same time I put my best foot forward and I enjoyed being part of the race," Brown said.

Jeff Sklar contributed to this report.