Saint Mary's Class of 2001's election for class officers is complete, and the Class of 2002 and 2003 will have a runoff on Friday to elect their class officers for the 2000-01 school year.

Autumn Palacz and her running mate comprised the only Class of 2001 ticket and successfully held 84 percent of the vote.

"We four have been in government since our freshman year," Palacz said. "This is what we've wanted. We've been working on our platform since last semester and we feel that we are very experienced and qualified."

The class of 2002 showed a good turn-out of student vote with 59 percent of the class participating. The Erin Callahan ticket leads with 49 percent of student votes; Katy Robinson is second with 27 percent.

"We had excellent class turn out in voting," Robinson said. "We're going to keep campaigning and let everyone know about the runoff because everyone's vote counts."

Callahan was unavailable for comment.

The Class of 2003 also showed an excellent turn-out. With 59 percent of the class voting, the Kristen Matha ticket currently leads the Steph Pace ticket with 37 percent of votes.

"We're ecstatic," Matha said. "We didn't expect it. Our running mates were tremendous and did a wonderful job. Now all we can do is to keep on campaigning."

Pace was unavailable for comment.

In the Diversity Board election, the Akmaral Omarova and Katie Poynter tickets will participate in the runoff on Friday.

The Omarova ticket had 39 percent of the vote, while the Poynter ticket had 29 percent. The Nikki Gonzalez ticket received 14 percent of the vote, and 18 percent of the voting population abstained. Overall, 45 percent of the Saint Mary's student body voted in the Diversity Board election. Candidates were unavailable for comment.

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