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Emily McLain and Chii-San SunOwen edged out Sara Hamilton and Athan Papailiou in the race for ASUO Executive by just 145 votes.

"I'm absolutely excited," McLain said on Friday. "I congratulate our opponents on a great race."

McLain said her first priority is to begin organizing and planning how she will hire a new staff. She said she and SunOwen will go to all the groups they visited during the campaign to thank them for their support and ask what they want the new executive to do.

"Now we need to get down to business," McLain said.

Outgoing ASUO President Jared Axelrod said he has begun preparing how he will help McLain transition into the job by assembling a notebook for her and discussing how to hire a staff.

Axelrod said his transition into office was not the easiest, so he wants to help McLain in "any way I can."

The hiring process will be open to all students, and when it comes time to find a staff, McLain will place ads in the Emerald and send out e-mails to student programs, she said.

McLain said she wants to hire an environmental advocate who will focus on making sustainable practices a reality on campus. She said University President Dave Frohnmayer has shown a commitment to reducing carbon emissions and she hopes her administration can continue to work on those issues.

With the exception of Senate Seat 17, which independent candidate Kevin Parks won outright because he received more than 50 percent of the vote in the primary election, every other seat was won by a candidate from Hamilton's Campaign for Change.

"We are really happy that students were receptive to our Campaign for Change and are extremely proud that all of our candidates were successfully elected," Hamilton said.

McLain said her campaign's efforts to talk to average students and focus on issues important to them likely led to her win.

"I think we combated what we saw as a slate meant to elect an executive," she said. "We went out there and ran a very strong campaign, just like they did. I think both sides ran an amazing campaign."

She said she wanted to run for executive because she enjoys interacting with different communities and feels a need to speak up to correct injustices and problems when she sees them.

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