The weekend will include free housing and food. The Coordinator of Graduate Student Services is an administrative liaison between the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs and the graduate students. A description of all offices up for election shall be distributed to the entire graduate student body by the end of week 6 of the spring term. Nominations will be accepted until 1 week prior to voting. Voting shall begin in the tenth week and shall be concluded by the end of the twelfth week of the term.
All graduate students are eligible to vote.
The election of officers shall be done by either paper ballots that will be distributed to all graduate students or via electronic mail. Newly elected officers will take office immediately upon the closing of elections and shall organize the last GSA meeting of the year. If no candidate receives a plurality of the votes cast then a second election shall be held. If a position is vacated before elections then the Executive Committee shall elect or appoint a student to fill it. The election of committee representatives shall follow the same guidelines in section 6.1 with the following exception that eligibility to vote requires registration to the GSA electronic mailing distribution list.