About 300 students voted in last night's residence area government/University Park Allocations Committee elections, an election official said -- 600 less people than last year's election.

"I'll be honest that I'm disappointed," Kimberly Roth, Association of Residence Hall Students (ARHS) election committee chairwoman, said. "You can only publicize and put information out there so much, then the students have to do the rest."

Roth said 902 students voted in last year's UPAC/ARHS elections. She said the exact total of students who voted this year would not be known until today. She blamed the low turnout partially on problems with the Web site students used to vote, which weren't fixed until around 10 a.m., four hours after the polls opened.

In the area government elections, South Halls elected the most representatives out of any area. Jared Lipton ran unopposed to be elected president.

Also elected in South were David Young as administrative vice president and Bruce Chang as executive vice president. They were each the only candidate in the race. In one of two contested races in the ARHS elections, Matt Borgia and Catherine Rowe were elected as South's ARHS representatives.

In the only other contested race, Kayla McPherson was elected as West Halls president over Jason Lin. McPherson served as administrative vice president for West this year, and said she hoped to continue doing the work West's government had done recently.

The other student elected to the West Halls area government was Philip Hochendoner, who was elected treasurer.

Pollock Halls and North Halls also elected two representatives each. In North, Katherine Safin was elected ARHS representative, and Jennifer Pegher was elected as administrative vice president. Valerie Shiba was named administrative vice president and Margaret Emerick was named executive vice president in Pollock.

East Halls and Eastview-Nittany Apartments each elected only the president. Jonathan Sauer won East president and Jose Espinal won Eastview-Nittany president.

All the students elected to the area governments for Pollock, North, East and Eastview-Nittany ran unopposed.

UPAC chairman Greg Heleniak said that he did not know the election results by press time.

Only three candidates, Nick Mance, Praveen Chandramouli and Abe Gitterman were running for the eight positions, making it almost certain that they were all elected.

Gitterman, who is also the president of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity, said he had funding requests turned down in the past by UPAC.

"My main priority is to work more with the Greek community," he said. "I have some huge ideas that would involve something other than THON for good causes."