The Residence Hall Association elected their new executive board and announced endorsements for student senate candidates Wednesday night in Thomas Hall.

After nominations were made for executive board members, the candidates were allotted a specific amount of time to speak and to answer questions.

Running uncontested for re-election for the position of President was freshman psychology major Kevin Leverence.

Addressing the RHA delegates, Leverence stressed that he would like to see greater cohesion among the new executive board. In addition, Leverence said that he wanted to make sure every member of the organization feels welcome and important.

Kara Crones and Kelly Nagle ran uncontested for the positions of vice president and secretary. Crones, a freshman management major, won the position of vice president.

“I am very happy to be the new vice president of RHA. It’s exciting to be in a position to make this organization even stronger than it is now,” Crones said.

Nagle, a Physical Education major, was named secretary.

In the most heated race of the evening, freshmen pre-engineering major Ryan Siegel, was voted vice president of finance, by ballot vote, after defeating sophomore secondary education major Nachel Glynn and freshmen social sciences major Jason Polenskey.

In new business, RHA voted on endorsements for student senate candidates including senior political science major Alison Mormino for president, junior history major Marty Ruhaak for vice president of public affairs, senior geography major Justin Brinkmeyer for vice president of academic affairs and junior history major Tim Edwards for vice president of financial affairs.

Sophomore speech communications major Jessica Jarret and junior marketing major Donna Fernandez were the organization’s selections for student senate membership.

Following a proposal from last week, RHA voted to continue the distribution of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to campus residence halls on its regular schedule, but to limit the number of papers dispensed in an effort to account for extra papers commonly left unused.