Association Director Kara Spencer said about 2.8 percent — or about 1,000 undergraduate students — participated in the elections, which ran April 4-11.

The renewal of ASMSU’s tax — $16.75 per undergraduate student — passed with 758 students approving. The Readership Program — a $1.25 tax — passed with 797 votes. The program provides four daily newspapers, including the New York Times and the Detroit Free Press, free of charge for students on campus.

ASMSU collects a tax each semester from students to fund its programs and services, including initiatives such as free blue books. The organization is required to renew the tax with students every three years.

“I think the votes are a reflection of the value that students place on the services provided them, like iClickers and the yearbooks,” Spencer said.

The approved amendments postpone implementation of 501©(3), nonprofit status — which passed with 439 votes — and reinstate a temporary Academic Assembly, passing with 465 votes.

ASMSU previously had planned to pursue 501©(3) status to make the organization nonprofit, Student Assembly Chairman Chris Schotten said in a previous interview. ASMSU lost its nonprofit status through the university two years ago with the implementation of the university’s accountability measures.

The organization voted to postpone implementation of 501©(3) to allow ASMSU officials more time to clear up confusion about how the nonprofit status would impact ASMSU’s relationship with the university, Schotten said.

Students also elected four new student representatives in the colleges of Communication Arts and Sciences, James Madison, Lyman Briggs, and Agriculture and Natural Resources. There was a tie vote between two candidates in the College of Engineering, and a representative will be determined by coin toss. One student — the candidate for the College of Music — only can be appointed, not elected, to a representative position because he only received three votes, Spencer said.

Representatives cannot be elected if they do not earn at least 25 votes, she said.

Student representatives, elected solely from colleges within the university, were elected to a new General Assembly, which will be seated Thursday. Diversity and student group representatives are appointed from within the groups of which they are a part, Spencer said.

Genomics and molecular genetics junior Dylan Miller was elected to represent Lyman Briggs. Miller, who also is in James Madison, said he is excited to be involved with ASMSU.

“I’m very interested in politics,” he said. “ASMSU interested me because there was a lot that needed to be done on campus. I like the idea of representing students and increasing student involvement on their own campus.”

General management sophomore Denzel McCampbell previously served on ASMSU’s Student Assembly and was re-elected to represent the College of Social Science. McCampbell said he anticipates the new General Assembly will see more input from different issues.

“I want to help make ASMSU more recognized throughout campus,” he said.

Child development senior Ashley Crabbe said the tax renewal and the Readership Program tax were a good thing for students to approve because the taxes are relatively cheap.

“If it’s not very much money, that’s good,” she said. “I don’t think (musician) Mike Posner is something that MSU needs, but the blue books and that are important.”