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Isaiah Grays officially removed from role as president

BY SAM DOUGLAS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

With his hand on “Robert’s Rules of Order,” Jonathan Dubois officially became undergraduate student body president of George Mason University. He was sworn in during the Undergraduate Representative Body meeting Jan. 22.

He replaces Isaiah Grays, whose reign as president ended in an impeachment process that has lasted the past three months. 

Grays was impeached in late October by the URB, then removed from office after a hearing with the Elections and Disputes Commission. He remained in his role as president throughout appeals to the EDC and the Faculty Review Board. Both appeals were rejected, causing his official removal from office.

Dubois was elected alongside Grays in May 2025, serving as Grays’ executive vice president. The ticket won a four-way race, finishing second in total number of first place votes received but winning due to the election’s ranked-choice voting system.

The victory was viewed as an upset; Grays and Dubois were elected as freshmen, beating several candidates with more student government experience. They won using a campaign promise of “Bringing the YOU back to GMU.”

Now, Dubois steps into a position that presides over the Undergraduate Representative Body and also has a non-voting seat on the newly transformed Board of Visitors, where he is the only undergraduate student permitted to speak during meetings.

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That position is currently vacant, meaning it falls on President Dubois to appoint his own executive vice president. Dubois and his selected executive vice president will serve until elections are held for the next undergraduate student body president at the end of the spring semester.