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After a relatively quiet campaign season, write-in candidate Tim Andreadis '07 emerged as the winner of the student body presidency with a shockingly large margin, leaving many students surprised at the results, especially in reference to the large margin of victory.
From the day he announced his decision to run for president as a write-in candidate, Andreadis took care to establish himself as an "alternative" candidate that was vastly different from ballot candidates Chrissie Chick '07, Adam Patinkin '07 and Dave Zubricki '07, who ultimately failed to differentiate themselves from one another.
Although Patinkin started the season with momentum by promising to make structural reforms to the Assembly, his platform pitched very similar issues as Zubricki's and Chick's, not to mention the platforms of past candidates.
While they quibbled over the level of Assembly experience needed to assume the post of president, each of the three ran similar campaigns focusing on what supporters of Andreadis often considered less pressing issues: They praised the Greek system but discussed making it more "inclusive," called for reform of the Committee on Standards and Dartmouth Dining Services, promoted adding a young alumnus to the Board of Trustees and promised to bring more GreenPrint and BlitzMail terminals to campus.
In a final debate, the Elections Planning and Advisory Committee noted Zubricki's initial lack of campaigning compared to other candidates -- an important point that likely hurt Zubricki, who came in second after Andreadis.
