Matthew Caine and Alex Mulligan won the Oshkosh Student Government (OSG) election on April 3 for president and vice president and will serve their term for the next academic year. 

Caine and Mulligan received 214 out of 422 student voters, or 51% of the vote, beating out Charlie Colbert and Ira Schlottke who received 203 out of 422 votes or 48% of the vote. 

President elect Caine said it was great to have so much support heading into the election. 

“It was amazing,” he said. “We had a rally at the Newman Center and we had probably 50 or 60 people cheering for us and to just have that loving support from the Newman Center, but also from the UWO Republicans, UWO Democrats and all of these just larger organizations in general it felt pretty pretty awesome to have the the group vote.”

Caine said their campaign was run on transparency, responsibility and accountability. 

“Starting next semester you can expect weekly reports from OSG,” he said. “Another thing we’re pushing for is getting mass emails out and very brief but able to be detailed by giving you our meeting minutes and our recordings, but just exactly what’s going on in OSG.”

Vice President elect Mulligan said he wants to be very vocal and open with the senate.

“I want to ensure and push our senators to have a more coexisting relationship,” he said. “I want them to know each other and build that good working relationship with each other and to communicate and hold them responsible.”

Caine said he wants to reconnect with student organizations on campus.

“Recently we’ve kind of had this distance with student orgs,” he said. “If you come to some of the current events that we hold such as town hall events, those are actually very much encouraged that student orgs come to them. They can learn information from the executive board and learn information from  members of the campus community.” 

Mulligan said he wants to push connectivity among the entire campus community.

“Reeve is empty a lot and we want to change that, we want students to feel more welcomed on this campus,” he said. 

Caine said he wants the senators to report back to OSG for what they are hearing within the community. 

“It’s about the diverse perspective of students that actually make this organization make change in the community,” he said. 

Caine said UWO has a great culture and community.

“We need student involvement and we can only be as successful as the people that we surround ourselves with,” he said.