THE STUDENT COUNCIL executive election results were announced on Monday. Oddly, the office of executive president did not go to rising senior Isaac Chambers, who had been uncontested going into election day, but instead to his classmate, Adam Tiouririne, who conducted what he described as a “two-hour, half joking, write-in campaign.”

However, in a rather humorous letter to the students and faculty sent today, Tiouririne has announced that he is resigning from his newly elected office in favor of Chambers.

“As they say, though, the biggest hurdles are the ones we create for ourselves, and I think it will be difficult to effectively fill a position that I never strongly wanted in the first place,” said Tiouririne in his letter. “Therefore, after embarrassingly little thought and irresponsibly haphazard consideration, I hereby resign as executive president of University High School Student Council and cede this cherished seat to Mr. Chambers.”

Originally the election for the 2008-09 executive offices had consisted of three uncontested candidates: Chambers for president, Alan Liang for vice president, and Natsuki Nakamura for secretary/treasurer. All three students are juniors.

But on Thursday, the day of the election, Tiouririne announced his last-minute write-in campaign.

“Hopefully I've made you chuckle by spicing up a dreadfully dull election; perhaps I've even made you think a bit, but the year's almost over and we'd best not do too much of that,” he said in his letter. “If I've made you scratch your head, I suppose that's satisfactory too, but if I've upset you in any way, then I'm truly and deeply sorry (really).”

Tiouririne would like to make it clear that his campaign for executive president was never meant seriously.

“Everyone thought it was strange that there was only one person running for executive president,” Tiouririne told the Gargoyle, explaining his motive. “I thought it would be funny to just throw myself in there. From the beginning it was a joke.”