Election results for Columbia College Student Council are in and party Stand Columbia is the new winning party for year 2011. CTV News sat down with two of the party members, Learned Foote and Brandon Christophe, to hear about their victory and plans for the forthcoming year.

Christophe was first to speak of his party's victory. "I would say we're obviously very happy about the elections and how everything turned out but we're looknig at a really talented and a great board overall next year."

Foote was also happy about the results but more about the process: "I think the campaign stayed friendly all the way through and I have enormous respect for everyone who ran."

The party also addressed what policies they would be focusing on next year.

Christophe talked about one of the most important issues on campus: the tech fees. "Right now it costs 18dollars to have someone to tech at your event and it's going to go up to 34dollars next year. We've also seen a lot of groups going into the red because they are not notified ahead of time when the money is going to be taken from their account and there is no posted schedule for renting the items so what we want to do is to increase the transparency in the whole process so we can schedule the fees and students will know what they are paying."

Foote focused on academics as he said, "we also want to be working on things that affect everybody in terms of academics. We're looking to increase study spaces during exam times, especially in Hamilton. Having it officially open to students as opposed to neaking in. We're also looking at putting course evaluations results online. We're really looking to unify this across college so students can make informed decisions about the classes that they take and have the course evaluations online."