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CARROLL UNIVERSITY

APRIL 12, 2010

Arrival of Brookﬁeld goes missing in high court race Pi Lam to Prosser takes substantial lead after votes are recovered expand Arthur W. Thomas Staff Greek Life Editorial On Thursday April 7,

Carroll’s first national fraternity to colonize this fall Sarah Grannis

Editorial Staff After years of having a small Greek system on campus, Carroll University has opened its doors to the expansion process by allowing Pi Lambda Phi Fraternity to colonize next fall. Pi Lam (as it typically referred to) will be the school’s first national fraternity. Founded at Yale University in 1895, Pi Lam was the first non-secretarian fraternity in the United States. Allowing all men to join, regardless of religion (a radical choice at the time when most fraternities were secular organizations), it still embraces those values today and lists its philanthropy as “The Elimination of Prejudice” which promotes the organization’s principles of equality amongst all people. There are currently 40 active chapters of Pi Lam. The Carroll University colony will be Pi Lam’s second Wisconsin chapter, once it completes the colonization process. Pi Lam also boasts a total of over 40,000 initiated members nationwide (currently 1,000 active members), including famous alumni such as Senator Herb Kohl, comedians Lewis Black and Kevin James, businessman Mark Cuban and current Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig. Amongst the Greek community, excitement is growing over the addition of this latest chapter. “I think it’s great, the expansion of Greek life is extremely beneficial to our campus, and it will be a nice addition to have a nationally-based fraternity, in addition to two current locallybased ones,” senior and member of Delta Rho Upsilon Zach Staszewski said. Assistant Director of Student Activities and Supervisor of Greek Life Christine Gravelle said the university opened up its expansion process for a third fraternity earlier this year and found itself choosing amongst eight potential organizations – ultimately deciding on Pi Lam. “A committee was developed, made up of myself, the Alum Relations representative, the Director of Residence Life, the then-president of Delta Rho Upsilon, a student senator, the PI LAM continued on Page 2

“Waukesha County” was trending worldwide on Twitter. Worldwide. Why, because the county clerk forgot to hit the save button. As a result of the mistake by Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus, roughly 14,000 votes from the City of Brookfield had not been counted in totals reported on election night. The mistake turned what was a slim 204 vote lead for challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg into a substantial lead for Justice David Prosser in the race for Wisconsin’s State Supreme Court. Nickolaus realized the mistake on April 6, as she and the Board of Canvassers were reconciling the unofficial results of Tuesday’s election with the tape of the actual votes cast. According to Nickolaus, a spreadsheet with the votes from the City of Brookfield was imported into a database created by the Government Accountability Board. However, the database was not saved. As a result, Brookfield not included in the initial tallies. Once the votes were included, there was a net gain of around 7,500 votes for Prosser. “I’m thankful that this error was caught early in the process and during the canvass,” Nickolaus said in a press conference on April 7. “The purpose of the canvass is to catch these types of errors.” Nickolaus stressed it was not a case of votes being found. “This is human error, which I apologize for,” said Nickolaus. She noted that mistakes by humans in entering the data are common. For example, elsewhere in Waukesha Co., specifically the City of New Berlin, the reported vote total for one ward was initially 37 for Prosser, when in fact it was 237. “[Human error] is common in this process, which is why that state requires us to conduct a canvass,” said Nickolaus. “Every person in Waukesha County that voted on April 5, their votes counted.” To those who would suggest she was attempting to help Justice Prosser win the election, Nickolaus said there was an open and transparent process with representatives from both parties present. Democrat Ramona Kitzinger agreed with Nickolaus at the press conference. “I’m the Democratic vice chair of Waukesha County, so I’m not going to stand here and tell you something that’s not

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County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus forgot to save a database on election night. As a result the city of Brookﬁeld was not included in reported vote totals. Illustration by Amanda Palczynski

true,” Kitzinger said. “We went where numbers seemed to add not bring people to the polls in over everything and made sure up, though I have no idea where large numbers. However, there the numbers jibed up, and they the numbers were coming from.” has been nothing usual about Part of Nickolaus’ explana- Wisconsin politics this year. did.” “It was a really unusual enHowever, Kitzinger has tion for why she did not catch changed her position since the her error initially was the high vironment,” noted Milwaukee press conference. Citing the turnout level in the race. She County Executive candidate Jeff number of people who quoted said spring elections usually see Stone in his concession speech. The state has become poher as an authority on the mat- about 30 percent turnout in ter, she expressed reservations Waukesha Co. but even without larized over Governor Scott Walker’s budget about the process, repair bill and atsaying it was not tempts to end colas open and translective bargaining parent as the pubfor public unions. lic was made to The result was an believe. Accordenergized electoring to Kitzingate as over 1.5 miler’s statement on lion people came the website of the to the polls. The Waukesha County -- Kathy Nickolaus, Waukesha County Clerk Government AcDemocratic Party, countability Board she was not made predicted a turnaware of the error Brookfield’s votes, turnout was out of around 20 percent of votuntil April 7. ing age adults for the election “Kathy told us she thought at 42 percent. “That was an amazing that included just one statewide she had saved the Brookfield voter information Tuesday night, amount of votes so I had no race. They were off by 14 perbut then on Wednesday she reason to believe I was miss- cent, as historic numbers of peosaid she noticed she had not hit ing any,” said Nickolaus. “With ple came to the polls on April 5. save,” said Kitzinger’s statement. this change…our turnout vote If the GAB prediction had been “Kathy didn’t offer an explana- in Waukesha County was 47 correct, roughly 880,000 votes tion about why she didn’t men- percent, that’s something to be would have been cast. tion anything prior to Thursday proud of for Waukesha County afternoon’s canvass completion, residents.” SUPREME COURT Spring elections usually do but showed us different tapes continued on Page 3

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“I’m thankful that this error was caught early in the process...the purpose of the canvass is to catch these types of errors.”

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