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84, No. 50
April 2, 1986 Vo l.
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Tuesday Edition
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Freshman sweeps president's race
—Down & out
Photographic services: Tom Gilbert
It was a good try, but this limbo dancer is at the University Center. Terry Tatum proved to
on his way out as he falls to the floor. The limbo be the limberest limboer by winning the contest. contest was part of the Luau party Thursday night
By. Susie Garrett Voting for the second time after their first choice was disqualified, students elected Jeff Shilling, a freshman, for Student Association president Friday. Shilling received 181 votes while his opponent, Richard Passey, tallied 58 votes, 34 less votes than he received in the first election. Write-in's accounted for 23 votes, adding to 262 votes cast. Senate officials said they were happy with voter turnout. The average voter turnout is about 300 votes. "The numbers don't surprise me," Shilling said about his victory. However, he felt Carla Krauss, the disqualified winner of the first election, "would have won the first election even if she had - not campaigned on the first floor" of the University Center. As far as her disqualification, "I don't see any other choice the continuum committee had that would of not caused problems in future elections," Shilling said. Richard Passey said even though he lost the election he was glad to see a good second turnout. Carla Krauss, who voted two minutes before the polls closed, said she had not taken the senate actions personally. But noted that the "punishment did not fit the crime." Other students were not so cordial. "You did a very dirty thing," said student Susan Bouse to the senate members supervising the voting polls. "I'm not going to vote anymore," she said. One of the Senate Members told Bouse
that was not the way to handle her grievence. Later in a interview Bouse said "the penalty was too strong (for Krauss). I think there was prejudice behind this because of her age. "My government class got in a uproar about it. Krauss did break the rule, but the penalty was to hard. She came to our class and gave a political speech...she really impressed us." Several students had the same reaction as Bouse. "I think she should of been punished, but I think it was too strong a punishment," said student Gregg Barrett. "I feel that Krauss should have won," said Jeff Aynes, sophomore. "She had double the votes of everyone else." An opposing view though came from freshman Mandy Bird. "It's only fair it (the election) be run correctly," Bird said. "They were to read the rules and they should follow the rules." Several senate members suggested students unhappy with the continuum committee file a grievence petition with the Student Association. "If students do have a gripe, the senate does have a suggestion box," said Beau Smith, senate member. The best way for a student to voice his grievence is "find their senator," and take the matter up with him personally, said Randy Anduss, Student Senate member and publicity committee chairman.
Professors say tours still on despite attacks By Curtis Killman Editor Two professors say everything is still on for their summer tours to Africa and England despite a wave of terrorist attacks being aimed at Americans and Britains in response to the U.S. bombing of Libya. "We feel like supposedly Sapena (Airlines) is a neutral carrier and Brussels is somewhat neutral city in Europe and so we don't feel any strong hesitations at this point about going ahead with our plans," according to Dr. Dale Mullins, dean of the college of education, who is planning the trip this summer to Kenya, Africa. Mullins' tour will leave May 15 from
Oklahoma City for New York City then to Brussels, Belgium and then on to Nairobi, Kenya. Brussels, Belgium is the headquarters for NATO. Fourteen students are planning to go, Mullins said, and no one has canceled out yet. But, he did say one student has expressed apprehensions. "I talked with one person yesterday who was a little bit apprehensive," Mullins said. "But he talked with a tour agent also and as far as I know he is still planning to go." "Everyone has paid their money and I've advised them to take trip cancellation insurance, just in the event that something unforeseen develops," Mullins said. "Far as we're concerned everything is still go as
planned, unless something more specific develops." Another professor, who is going to England this summer, said no changes are planned. "We're going down to southwest England," said tour coordinator Dr. Jack Reid, political science professor. "Be no problem there I wouldn't think." Reid said nine or 10 students are planning to go with him to the University of Exeter in England for three weeks. Reid said while he doesn't have any problems with going through with the trip, a lot of factors should determine how many students eventually go.
"It depends on what the future holds," Reid said. "If you've got a big ruckess over at Heathrow Airport today or tomorrow, this would put a whole different shade on it," Reid said. "It's just very difficult to say what direction this is going to go. It could escalate or it could calm down. "Chances are even if they had a big deal tomorrow, I'd still go anyway. Chances are of one particular person getting involved is quite remote. You've got literally hundreds of thousands of people going through Heathrow. "So Lord, you're chances on getting that are a lot less than a car wreck."