The Coffee House was crammed so tightly on Friday evening before the results of the ASSU election were announced that management had to request that people move from the doorway to make room for entering customers. Candidates, members of student groups and other interested parties chatted with each other or nervously gnawed on burritos until Elections Commissioner Ellie Martin stepped forward with a megaphone and asked, “Are you ready to hear who the next ASSU President is?”

Martin and Assistant Commissioner Alida Garcia, both juniors, read the results shortly after 5 p.m. There were several surprises, particularly in the special-fees category.

Among those groups that did not receive special-fees funding were MEChA, the Axe Committee, the Mind’s Eye and the Stanford Progressive. The announcement of MEChA as the only member of the Students of Color Coalition to be rejected for special fees seemed to dismay many in the room, including Garcia, who did not veil her displeasure.

”Ya’ll suck for that, personally,” she said.

In an e-mail sent out to the MEChA list after the announcement, Garcia said she had spoken to the Lee-Mefford campaign about her concerns.

“I am heavily involved in the ASSU and please believe I will be regulating on Lee-Mefford to make sure they do what they need to be doing,” she said.

During fall quarter, MEChA had been targeted by the Stanford Review, the University’s conservative newspaper, which alleged that MEChA’s founding documents contained racist statements.

“Not getting special fees this year won’t affect MEChA directly as much as it will effect the Chicano / Latino community at Stanford as a whole,” said the group’s co-chair, sophomore Francisco Cendejas. “The MEChA special fee is the largest single contributor to nearly every major event for the community, including events that are planned by or for students who aren’t regular members.”

In the Undegraduate Senate race, freshman Omar Shakir garnered the most votes at 1,499. Shakir ran an intense, inventive flyering campaign that raised his visibility on campus.

“I’m really excited,” Shakir said. “It’s been a crazy, busy week.”

Sophomore Chris Lin, an incumbent, was reelected with 1,096 votes. He expressed an eagerness to get to work with his new associates.

“I read the election handbook and they seem like solid people,” he said. “I look forward to getting to know them better over the next couple of weeks.”

In the class-president races, Senior High School won the senior class presidential race, the O.C. won the junior class race and the S.O.L.V. slate won the sophomore class race, as the only team that ran opposed.

In the executive race, the Lee-Mefford slate came out on the top with 2,072 votes, while Husbands-Schwartz took second at 1,749 votes. The Chappie slate of senior Charlie Stockman and junior Matthew Henick was eliminated in the first run-off after receiving 638 votes. After the results were announced, Henick did the best he could to recover from the loss.

“All Chappie members, we’re going to Chili’s now, meet in the office,” he told his supporters, who filed solemnly out of the Coffee House carrying signs that advertised a gun show.

The Elections Commission also announced results pertaining to the ASSU general-fee rate and the Great Donation. The general fee next year will not change. The Great Donation passed and its funds will go to the organization Doctors Without Borders.