In Wednesday night's Activities Board at Columbia elections, Beezly Kiernan, CC '11, was voted in as new president with one stipulation: he may resign by Thursday. Kiernan said that he would resign if his Naked Party ticket wins this week's Columbia College Student Council executive board elections, where he is gunning for a seat as vice president of policy. "I made the commitment to run for CCSC back in early February," he said after being elected to ABC. Kiernan is also the secretary on the Student Governing Board. In the event that Kiernan wins the CCSC position and resigns, ABC will hold entirely new elections and must find new presidential candidates, as Kiernan's opponent, current ABC President Bill Jung, CC '11, will not assume the position if Kiernan resigns, and does not plan to run for the position again. "I think it was a very divided election from what I've heard," Jung said of the vote. At ABC, the outgoing board elects the new board in an internal process. Kiernan said Jung—who had been rumored to be considering a council run—knew of his intentions to run for CCSC. "The current president [Jung] understood that if someone wanted to run for CCSC and ABC they could resign ABC to do CCSC," he said. Kiernan says his experience on SGB and his work with ABC through SGB and other club participation motivated him to run for president of ABC, and that his positions on both groups could help in reforming the governing board. Kiernan was treasurer for an ABC group this year, and served as SGB liaison to ABC for the past few months. "I had an insider's view on the problems in ABC ... ABC needs more help and more improvement than SGB, period," he said. Jung remains optimistic for next year. "I think next year's board is going to be very interesting, we definitely have a fresh new perspective for ABC and I'm full of confidence in the returning board," he said. Jung added, "I think Beezly hasn't had any ABC experience coming from SGB, so he's going to have a lot of new ideas." SGB Chair Devora Aharon, CC '10, said of Kiernan, "Beezly has a lot of really great ideas and he's really talented and really passionate about making change." Eric Rosenberg, CC '11, was elected vice president, Brittany Ward, SEAS '12, was elected treasurer, and Justin Kim, SEAS '11, will serve as secretary. Jung said he hoped that in the event of a second election, younger members of ABC would step up. "I think one thing that I learned from this election is ABC is put in a tough position when we don't have a lot of young people to lead ABC in generations in the future and have institutional memory," he said. The remaining ABC elections will be held in a general body meeting April 28. elizabeth.scott@columbiaspectator.com