Students First Party candidate, Jen Fanthorpe, was elected student vice president for financial affairs Wednesday.

Fanthorpe, a sophomore business major, received 400 votes to her Student Pride Party opponent, Dwight Nelson, a junior psychology major’s, 244 votes.

“I’m ready to go,” Fanthorpe said. “I plan on going to work on getting people that are on the tuition and fee review committee to look at frozen tuition.”

Fanthorpe said she wants to look closely at housing rates because they had a big impact this year when students were able to see them; however, she said she realizes that the committee cannot start on the housing rates until they lay the ground work for it.

Nelson said he was very pleased with the number of votes he got. “We went in as the underdogs,” he said. He hopes that he may get an appointment, but he believes that his campaign tactics may have hurt his chances at getting someone to appoint him.

“I may have burned some bridges – only the future can tell.”

The student vice president for financial affairs has perhaps the most narrowly defined task on the executive board, and one that requires the most technical knowledge. Fanthorpe will be in charge of the Apportionment Board and doling student fee money out to five boards, including the AB.

Fanthorpe has previously served as the chair of the Tuition and Fee Review Committee, as well as the Student Senate’s liaison to the AB.

Fanthorpe, originally from Naperville, was the senate member who analyzed the original proposal for the recent housing rates and lowered the proposed numbers based on that analysis.