The Student Union announced the results of the second round of spring elections last Friday, which included the student-body approval of an environmentally friendly tuition bill referendum and a victory by a write-in candidate. The results are still pending certification.The primary and final voting rounds were held last Tuesday and Thursday, respectively, for the class senator and Union Judiciary positions.

The following candidates won their races: Asher Tanenbaum and Darren Gallant for Senators of the Class of 2008; Yuki Hasegawa and Julia Sferlazzo for Senators of the Class of 2009; Jenna Brofsky and Julie Rapp for Senators of the Class of 2010; and Andrew Brooks '09 and Jessica Blumberg '09 for Senator-at-Large. Gabriel Gaskin '08 won a write-in campaign for Senator for Racial Minority Students.

The new Union Judiciary justices are Bryan Deutsch '08, James Ansorge '09, Cindy Kaplan '08, Robbie Schwartz '08 and Zachary Handler '09.

Four hundred and eighty-nine of 683 voters backed a referendum to add a line item to the tuition bill that would give students an option to donate $30 to the New England Wind Fund, which Students for Environmental Action representatives told the Justice two weeks ago would support community wind turbines as a renewable source of energy. Changes to the tuition bill such as this need to be approved by the University Board of Trustees, and this has not yet gone in front of the board.

The race for Racial Minority Senator was also marked by the campaign of Jonathan Kane '10, a white student who changed his race identification with the University register in order to run. Kane finished with seven votes in the first round while Gaskin, the eventual winner, earned 64 write-in votes.

Gaskin said the racial composition on campus was representative of the "greater U.S. community," and that his position will help "create dialogue and mutual identification between the majority and minority groups."

After losing last month's election for Union president to Shreeya Sinha '09, Brooks ran for his second term as senator-at-large. He garnered the most votes in the primary round of voting, but ended up in second behind Jessica Blumberg '09, who was in fourth place in the primary round.

Blumberg said she was "pleasantly surprised" upon learning the results of the second round of the election. "I always hoped and believed I would and should win but you never actually know at the end where everyone's going to lay," she said.

Brooks said that he was surprised that the number of votes Blumberg received went up so dramatically in the second round, but that she campaigned very hard and that he will be happy to work with her next year.

Brofsky gained nearly 61 percent of the first-round vote in her race. "I think I had a pretty strong chance because I was an incumbent and because I feel I've made some tangible reforms this year, but you can never go in being too confident," she said.

Newly elected Union President Shreeya Sinha '09 was innaugurated Sunday.