University of Iowa student voters elected Addison Eckard and Brenda Ramirez as Undergraduate Student Government’s next president and vice president Friday afternoon. Eckard and Ramirez won with 1,008 votes, which was 53.5 percent of 2,015 total votes cast during the March 25-27 voting period, as announced in the Hubbard Commons at the Iowa Memorial Union.
The University of Iowa’s Undergraduate Student Government passed legislation to allocate money to a number of different organizations on Tuesday night following an engaged debate over the government’s contingency fund. USG’s contingency fund supports large-scale projects that help university staff, students, and the community at large. The student government first voted to allocate $6,500 out.