The student elections, which were from March 30 to April 5, included the tax referendums and ASMSU college representative elections.

ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.

The RHA tax referendum passed by a 374-99-10 vote, RHA President Mark Dobson said.

Without the tax allocation, RHA would cease to exist because every project or event RHA puts on has a price tag, he said.

“The voter turnout was a little higher in years past, but the overwhelming support was in line with what we’ve seen in the past,” Dobson said.

RHA charges $25 per semester to every undergraduate student living in on-campus housing. RHA received more than $353,000 in tax allocation for spring 2009.

“For RHA, there is really only one issue to vote on this year,” Dobson said. “I feel that with something like that, you get the extremes. You get people who are supportive of RHA, (and) you get people who are upset by RHA. So within those extremes, fortunately I was really excited to see overwhelmingly people were in support of the work we’re doing, which was great.”

The tax referendum for the Impact passed by about a four-to-one margin to continue the $3 charge to all MSU students, station manager Jeremy Whiting said.

“It shows that we’re doing something relevant to the student body,” he said. “We’re trying to expand ways we deliver it. It’s not just over radio. We’re doing a lot of Web stuff and going out on location more and I think by renewing our funding, students are saying they want more programing like that.”

Whiting said without the funding, the Impact would go off the air.

“The most important thing is it lets us continue what we’re doing,” he said. “It lets us know that what we’re doing is still relevant for the students.”

ASMSU’s college representative elections resulted in seven representatives for the 18th session of Academic Assembly and 10 representatives for the 46th session of Student Assembly.

There were 2,611 votes for each assembly, which was lower than years past, Student Assembly Chairperson Michael Webber said.

Last year, about 6,000 undergraduate students voted in the ASMSU student elections.

“Last year, (an ASMSU tax) referendum was up, so we tend to get more people voting in years like that,” Webber said. “We didn’t get what we expected, so hopefully they’ll go up next year.”

The newly elected Academic Assembly will elect new chairpersons April 21, and the new Student Assembly will elect new chairpersons April 23.