Jonah Renz, CSOM ’27, and Addie Weiss, MCAS ’27, have been elected as the next UGBC president and vice president.

“I’m very, very happy—I’m very excited,” Renz said in a call with The Heights following the release of the results. “I want to get working as soon as I possibly can, maybe after today, so I can just let it all sink in a little bit. But that’s really where I’m at. Life is good, man. Life is good.”

Renz expressed plans to spend the remainder of the semester learning from current UGBC leadership and getting a firm grasp on the role to hit the ground running.

“I think the next month and a half or I guess two months of this year, I want to try to learn as much as I can from the current president, Cami, and the current leadership team in UGBC, to learn a little bit more about how those leadership roles work and what exactly the day to day operations of the president are,” he said.

Weiss is the first Questbridge scholar to be elected UGBC vice president.

Renz and Weiss won the race with 56.36 percent of the vote, receiving 1,550 votes out of the 2,750 ballots cast. Mary Oliver, MCAS ’27, and her running mate, Colin Snyder, MCAS ’27, received 1,200 votes or 43.64 percent.

This year’s turnout saw a 15 percent decline from last year’s 3,240 votes.

In a call with The Heights, Oliver congratulated Renz and Weiss on their victory and said she stands ready to support their efforts from outside UGBC.

“Addie is very intelligent and capable, and Jonah is so impressive and a cool guy—I’m looking forward to working with them from the other side,” she said.

In addition to the presidential race, 14 student senator seats were up for re-election. 

The Class of 2029 elected five senators—James Knight, CSOM ’29, and Bubba Curran, Maggie de la Fuente, Mary Cate King, and Lauren Weideman, all MCAS ’29—to represent their class. 

The Class of 2028 elected five senators—Jordan Doty, LSHED ’28, and Will Cortes, Graham Kramer, Emily Prucher, and Ashley Varacalli, all MCAS ’28—to represent their class. 

The Class of 2027 elected Tommy Gray, Anna Hvidsten, and Isabella Ayalew, all MCAS ’27.

Renim Risku, Messina ’27, was elected as Messina College Representative.

All newly elected UGBC members will assume their roles at the end of the spring semester. 

Renz and Weiss ran a campaign centered on improving the student experience and strengthening community building, framing their five policy pillars as pragmatic, incremental solutions.

“I was able to reach a lot of students with the idea that I’m here to help them—that’s really my mantra at the end of the day,” Renz said. “Those relationships are what mattered at the end of the day. And that’s the exact type of thing that I’m trying to cultivate for a lot of students, being able to have other people in your life that you’re super close with that have their back.”

Throughout the campaign, Renz and Weiss leaned on their experience as leaders within the Boston College community to demonstrate their extended ambition to support students. Renz pointed to his involvement as an orientation leader and UGBC student initiatives coordinator, and Weiss to her three-year tenure as a UGBC senator.

For the second consecutive election cycle, students rejected a reform-oriented ticket in favor of one most aligned with the incumbent leadership and previous UGBC experience. In last year’s election, students chose Cami Kulbieda, LSEHD ’26, and Reagan Marino, MCAS ’26, who campaigned on their background in UGBC Senate in contrast to their two outsider opponents.

At the same time, the Renz-Weiss campaign recognized UGBC’s shortcomings, most notably criticizing Senate leadership’s delay in releasing a statement on ICE’s presence near campus.

While both tickets acknowledged a disconnect between students and UGBC, Renz and Weiss proposed improving transparency and engagement between UGBC and the student body, whereas Oliver and Snyder framed it as an organizational failure.

In his remarks to The Heights, Renz also thanked the opposing ticket, praising the way they ran their campaign and the ideas they brought to the race.

“I think Mary and Colin and their chief of staff and their campaign manager have been nothing but kind and respectful throughout this entire process,” he said. “When a lot of times, elections can get pretty heated, it was more so, I think this year, about just good ideas, and I think policy-wise, we share a lot of similarities.”

Reflecting on the outcome, Oliver said she was proud of the campaign she and her team built and framed the race as a meaningful milestone in her time at BC.

“This campaign is definitely one of the most beautiful things that I’ve been a part of in my time here,” she said. “It’s a full-circle moment for me—something that I would have never dared to do when I was a freshman. Now, having the courage to do this, having the communities and support systems behind me, showed me that my time here has been worthwhile.”

Looking ahead, Oliver said she will continue to be an advocate for students through her work and leadership in campus organizations.

“I’m going to continue exactly what I’ve been doing, which is fighting for these things, just through the student organization side I’m involved in,” she said. “I’m ready to continue to be there and be a resource for students and continue to try to empower this community.”

Renz said he will meet with administrators in the coming months to build the relationships needed to deliver on his promises.

“I will start meeting with administrators, building relationships, so that in the future, when those relationships become necessary, so that I’m able to fall back on and say, ‘Hey, listen, we met before. I’m not just a strange face. I’m here to help students,’” he said.

He expressed excitement to jump into the presidency.

“This is awesome,” Renz said. “I am so excited to try to make BC a better place for so many people. I really think that that’s what this role is all about.”

Update (3/20/2026, 11:22 a.m.): This article was updated to include statements from Mary Oliver.