Cole DeVantier will fill a recently-vacated seat on the undergraduate Student Association Senate as by a unanimous vote held during a meeting Wednesday evening. The term would last for until the end of the spring semester.
DeVantier — a junior mechanical engineering major — ran for one of the 12 available seats among 19 candidates during the fall’s SA Senate elections, taking the 13th spot at 219 votes. As a seat was left vacant upon former Senate Chairperson Gavin Krauciunas’s graduation at the end of the fall semester, current Senate Chairperson Aidan Thomas offered the role to runner-up DeVantier to quickly get it filled.
DeVantier told The Spectrum that it feels good.
“I accepted that I didn’t make it and when I found out that I was going to come back, it was nice because I would also like to come back next year,” DeVantier told The Spectrum. “I like advocating for the students and advocating for the clubs. So it’s good to come back and see what’s going on.”
DeVantier wants to look into improving SA’s club budget protocols, citing that he knows multiple students across engineering clubs that struggle getting reimbursements.
“Some of the biggest problems I see in some of these clubs are the financial problems they have to deal with,” DeVantier told fellow senators.
Mylien Lai is the senior news editor and can be reached at mylien.lai@ubspectrum.com.
Mylien Lai is the senior news editor at The Spectrum. Outside of getting lost in Buffalo, she enjoys practicing the piano and being a bean plant mom. She can be found at @my_my_my_myliennnn on Instagram.
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