Technician
monday march
22 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Election campaigning begins Monday The burden is on the candidates to get out and reach students around campus Rachel Port Staff Writer
Candidates for next year’s Student Government are allowed to campaign for student votes starting Monday and ending with student body elections on April 6. This year, there are more than 70 candidates running, including seven for student body president, three for student senate president, three for student body treasurer and two for chief justice. “There are a lot of really well-qualified candidates this time around,” Jim Ceresnak, student body president, said. According to Lindsey Pullum, chair of the Elections Commission, candidates have spent spring break planning and budgeting for the next two weeks; putting a lot of effort into developing campaign strategies that will reach students from all parts of campus. “We’re really excited to see what every candidate has to offer and we’re hoping to have a good, clean race,” Pullum said. Pullum said that all seven of the student body president candidates are running unique campaigns. “Two or three candidates are really bent on getting power back into students’ hands,” Pullum said.
Kelli Rogers, Student Senate president, said that while the elections would be very similar to past elections, there should be a lot more campaigning this year because there is a higher number of ambitious candidates. “This year has more potential than any year I’ve seen to be extremely competitive,” said Rogers. Pullum said that the race for Student Senate president should be particularly exciting because all of the candidates are strong members of the Senate. It will be interesting to see how the candidates reach out to the student body, Pullum said. Only candidates for student body president are advertising their platforms and reaching out to students through Web sites and Facebook groups right now. Rogers explained that candidates for Senate president, treasurer and chief justice also probably have specific platforms on which they are running, but that their platforms will be more about ethics and leadership due to the pre-determined responsibilities that await them once they arrive in office. “You’ll see less concrete things about what the candidates want to accomplish and more talk about ensuring students are represented and money
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Jim Ceresnak, Student Body President, talks with Stew Harsant, a senior in Spanish language and literature, at the Atrium March 11, 2009. Ceresnak donated his shoes to the ATO fraternity campaign for disadvantaged children in Kenya earlier that day. “I had an old pair of tennis shoes and I thought ‘why not?’ and donated the shoes off my feet,” Ceresnak said.
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon focuses on reintegration in community Brothers of SAE work to rebuild fraternity reputation
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Eric Kao, junior in business management, plays poker in Bragaw Activity Room Sunday evening with his friends. “I’ve been playing Texas Hold ‘Em for five years and enjoy doing it,” Kao said. Kao and his buddies play once or twice a week. “We met sophomore year and have been playing ever since,” he said.
Alternative spring break leaders satisfied with results of trips Leaders return with positive outlook on completed trips and look forward to future experiences Annie Albright News Editor
Leaders of several alternative spring breaks programs expressed their satisfaction with their traveling experiences this past week. Mary Burroughs, junior in chemical engineering, said she lead a program through CSLEPS to New Mexico. “I led the New Mexico Navajo Nation trip. Two issues we focused on were Navaho culture and education,” Burroughs said. “We alternated learning about culture through guest speakers and visiting cultural and historical sites with working in the schools.” Burroughs said she highly recommended an alternative service trip to
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future students. “If they are trying to decide whether or not to do it, they need to know it is a lot more than just a service experience,” Burroughs said. “It changes your life whether you realize it at the time or not. It’s one of those things you won’t get to do after college. You can volunteer all you want but you’ll never get to go with a group of your peers that all want to help, so it’s a big experience to pass up.” Alternative service breaks define service in an unconventional way, opening participants’ minds to learning about social issues, Burroughs said. “The most valuable part of the experience is realizing how much there is to learn about social issues around you, as well as how much you can learn from your peers and just being aware that it gives you a different outlook on life,” Burroughs said. “That is valuable
as far as service is concerned for your own personal knowledge.” She said the trip immersed the participants in the local culture while giving them plenty of service opportunities. “We stayed in homesteads with families while we were there,” Burroughs said. “We were based in Crown Point, New Mexico which is based in the Navajo reservation. In addition to learning about culture we also learned about issues other than education that were affecting the Native American people, some including environmental justice issues as well as Native American rights.” Saul Flores, a junior in graphic design and business marketing, said he lead a trip for Caldwell Fellows to Puebla and Atencingo, Mexico. He said his trip also combined a focus of
“So, I just put two and two together and created this idea.”
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon will hold a barbecue sale Wednesday in sup• port of its philanthropy, Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Source: Beau corey, SAE Its goal, according to Beau Corey, former vice president and senior in accounting, is to reinvent its image the most members, we have clearly met that goal.” on campus. Wayland Simmons, president of SAE “We lost our recognition by the University in 2003 for bad conduct and a junior in economics, said he fuland we came back as a colony in ly supported the chapter’s expansion. “Since I have been a part of the or2007,” Corey said. “After a year of that we were fully chartered and ganization I have seen it come full were recognized by both the school circle,” Simmons said. “We have our alumni involved with our philanthroand national organization.” py, we are in good Corey said sta nding w it h he was i nGreek life and we volved with are just in a good the re-estabspot right now lishment of with this barbeSAE. cue fundraiser.” “It was reCorey said he ally slow at Beau Corey, senior in accounting founded the idea first but we of an annual benare actually the biggest men’s fraternity on efit barbecue last year. “The reason I thought about it is campus with about 80 active memthat I knew people like to eat barbebers,” Corey said. Hosting philanthropy events cue here and people like to help out and becoming more sociable will with good causes,” Corey said. “So, help rebuild the fraternity to what I just put two and two together and it once was, Corey said. SAE is created this idea.” Corey said the fraternity raised working hard to reinvent its image by pushing for better academic, $1,000 at the barbecue last year and social and philanthropic standing, hopes to double it this year. He said it will become an annual event. he said. “I am excited to see if we can raise “We are really trying to reintegrate ourselves into the Greek com- more money than we did last year,” munity and I think we are doing a Corey said. “People love barbecue pretty good job at it,” Corey said. “I think us being the fraternity with SAE continued page 3
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