By Joseph Barrios

Arizona Daily Wildcat

T.J. Trujillo has officially been declared the next ASUA president after rival candidate Jason Wong accepted a settlement Friday to finalize the results.

Wong, a political science senior and presidential candidate for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, made a second appeal Thursday protesting the results of the second election naming Trujillo the winner with 1,947 votes to Wong's 979 votes. Wong previously appealed the first ASUA elections on March 1 and 2..

But Wong said measures taken by the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Association to endorse Trujillo misrepresented him and violate ASUA elections code.

Wong has now agreed to let the results stand and ASUA Supreme Court has agreed to discuss the role the "greek community" played in the election with the IFC and

He will meet with representatives from the two organizations at a hearing on April 11, said Scott B. Bernstein, chief justice of the ASUA Supreme Court.

"We'll try to arrive at some workable solution so this thing won't happen in the future," said Bernstein. "This is a settlement agreed upon by all the parties involved."

Wong said he feels IFC and Panhellenic should be held responsible for their endorsement of Trujillo during the elections, last Tuesday and Wednesday.

"People might just think I'm a sore loser," Wong said. "I appealed (the second election) because I don't feel the whole situation is fair."

IFC and Panhellenic rented vans to drive students from greek houses to polling areas and printed fliers with their endorsement of Trujillo, an accounting and finance junior and member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

The fliers also state that Wong opposed funding greek chapters and implied he felt funding greek organizations "would be the same as helping the KKK and other racist

Wong said the fliers were inaccurate.

ASUA elections guidelines states that if a campus organization endorses less then six candidates, any costs of the endorsements must be placed on candidates campaign expense form.

Trujillo, who said he was not involved with the organization of fliers or the vans, accepted the cost of both onto his campaign expense form.

Wong said there is a greek influence on campus which makes getting elected to office easier. He said he does not want "non-greek" students to get discouraged from running for office in the future.

But Trujillo said he plans to represent the entire

"I wasn't just elected by greeks," he said.

Dan Cunningham, IFC president, said IFC and Panhellenic would write a letter of apology to Wong but declined to comment further.

Trujillo also said he will attend the hearing, hoping to gain input for one of his first projects while in office: ASUA elections guidelines.

"I think we need a lot of work on the elections code," Trujillo said. "I think that's where the problem lies." Read Next Article