▲ Provided by Kim Sun Oh

On March 27 when the vote was still ongoing in front of the College of Liberal Arts, two staff of the election commission were sitting and waiting for students who wanted to vote.

The student president election of College of Liberal Arts marked its successful new start after eight days of electoral campaign. From March 27 to 28, only an approximate of 41.49 percent of Liberal Arts students exercised their voting rights. Since no more than 50 percent of liberal arts students voted, the campaign could have been postponed to next semester according to the current electoral campaign campus policy.


Discouraged, yet not desperate, the voting period was prolonged to April 1. Students could vote from 9:30 A.M to 5.30 P.M, at the lobby of College of Liberal Arts, College of Law, and Woo Dang Hall. The counting of votes finally started from April 1, 6:30 P.M in room 202, College of Liberal Arts, and 54.15 percent of students turned out to have exercised their suffrage. Among 1595 valid votes, 1482 were for the main candidate and 109 were against while four votes remained neutral. Park Jung Nam (12, Sociology) remarked, “Students need to have attention towards this big event, especially those who belong to College of Liberal Arts need to exercise their rights more often.”

As a matter of fact last winter, the College of Liberal Arts faced rough times when the 46th election for the president of the college was nullified. Jeondaemimoon, the only candidate at that time, was disqualified by getting two warnings of misconduct. In fact, there were several misconducts done by the candidate. First, as the voting rates were running low, the candidate called up all the students that did not participate in the voting and asked them directly on a mobile application service called KaKao-Talk to vote. The second transgression that greatly stirred the controversy was the fact that Jeondaemimoon had met up with the Student President Electoral Headquarters and appealed to them. As a result, the Election Commission of the College of Liberal Arts nullified the 46th election and Jeondaemimoon was asked to step down. Because the candidate had not claimed any objection within the 48 hours the nullification was announced, it was decided that the Emergency Task Force would take over the position and manage affairs for the year.

Han Seung Beom (09’ Sociology) and Kang Dong Heon (10’ Korean History), who represent “Highkick for You and I” are now officially going to take over the office at Communications Building in no time. As a candidate, this party promised to deal with many of the problems going around on campus, including suicide rates, sexual abuses occurring within campus and the 481 million won the school spent on financial investments.
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