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the Rice Thresher
Vol. LXXXVI, Issue No. 18
SINCE 1916
Friday, February 26, 1999
Countiss wins in low-turnout election
by Leslie Liu
TIIKKSHKK STAFF
Hanszen College junior Anne Countiss
defeated Jones College junior Nick Zdeblick
by a solid majority in the Student Association's
campus-wide General Elections, which ended
Wednesday.
Students cast a total of 733 ballots in the SA
presidential election, the position for which
the greatest number of students voted, a sig-
nificant decrease from the 1,169 votes cast for
president in last year's General Elections.
Write-in votes for current SA Secretary
Susan Egeland, a Lovett College junior, to-
taled 87, almost 12 percent of the vote, while
Countiss received 489 votes to Zdeblick's 132.
"I'm excited. It's great to have the support
of the student body and have it support my
visions," Countiss said. "I really appreciate the
support I've gotten from all over campus help-
ing out on my campaign."
In the only other contested SA office, Sid
Richardson College sophomore Daniel
Attaway defeated Baker College freshman
Rohan Varavadekar for External Affairs Vice
President by a wide margin, receiving 398
votes to Varavadekar's 152.
Egeland said she was flattered she had
secured a significant percentage of votes." [The
SA] needs to work on getting better student
involvement and getting students' opinions
heard," she said.
Countiss advocates the same ideas. "My
goals are to strengthen the Student Associa-
SA PRESIDENT 1999
Nick
Zdeblick,*
Susan Egeland
write-in)
Anne Countiss
TOTAL BALLOTS CAST
SA PRESIDENT, 1989-'99
'90
'91
92
'93
'94
'95
'96
97
'98
'99
1,270
1,300
1,380
1,240
no data
no data
1,360
1,100
1,169
733
Counts before 1998 are approximate.
Elections after 1996 (gray) were held on-line.
tion to make it more efficient, effective, and to
allow more people to become involved with
the SA," she said.
To achieve these goals, Countiss said she
wants to make sure people know they don't
have to be elected officers to be involved and
to more widely publicize SA events, possibly
by announcing agendas prior to meetings.
In the uncontested SA elections, Sid Rich-
ardson College junior Jaime Middleton will be
next year's internal affairs vice president,
Hanszen freshman Jamie Lisagor will be the
secretary and Baker sophomore Chad
Benedict will be the treasurer.
Though many positions were uncontested,
several were extremely close, including a tie
for the third Honor Council junior representa-
tive spot between Brown College sophomores
Gretchen Imel and Sean Kannengieser. Be-
cause of this, the Honor Council decided to
accept both candidates in this special situa-
See ELECTION, Page 6
ELECTION RESULTS
Student Association Officers
President — Anne Countiss
Internal affairs VP* — Jaime Middleton
External affairs VP — Daniel Attaway
Secretary* — Jamie Lisagor
Treasurer* — Chad Benedict
Rice Student Volunteer Program Officers
Chair* — Anna DiPerna, Shilpa Sarang
Internal vice chair — Craig Harrison
External vice chair — Vivek Mittal
Secretary — Vandana Gadhia
Treasurer — Laura Gardner
Rice Program Council Officers
President* — Lindsay Germano
Secretary* — Alexa Plunkett
Honor Council Representatives
Senior* —Amy Rees, Jan-Michael Huber,
Danny Chelius, Elizabeth Oehler
Junior* —Claire Bocchini, Deanna Smith,
Gretchen Imel, Sean Kannengieser
Sophomore — Laura Derr, Steven Wilbur,
Aaron Martz
University Court Representatives
Senior — Jay Reynolds, Dave Sha
Junior — Ellen Chenoweth, Alisa De Luna
Sophomore — Frieda Fotouh, Andrew Lin
Thresher Editor*
Mariel Tam, Jett McAlister
Uncontested position
B
Playing dress up
ABI COHEN/THRESHER
Health Services likely to
remain in current location
by Esther Sung
rHKKSHER STAFF
Sophomore architecture majors Ryan LeVasseur (left), Mohit Mehta and Carina Dullum adorn Willy's Statue in
the garb of their hero Zorro Wednesday in preparation for Archi-Arts. The event is tomorrow at the Mercado del
Sol. Buses will leave from the Sallyport every 15 minutes, starting at 10 p.m. Tickets are $13 at the door.
EMT Reiter, Rice take home awards
Due to a bloated budget, the op-
tion to build a separate facility for
Health Services and the Rice Coun-
seling Center was cut from construc-
tion plans.
Plans to improve Health Services
were previously added to the new
South College project. Options in-
cluded a new facility as part of the
new college or a separate building
dedicated solely to Health Services
and the Counseling Center.
Many other ideas followed that
of South College, however, includ-
ing the common kitchen and servery
for South College, Hanszen College
and the to-be-rebuilt Wiess College.
When the proposed budget for
South College expanded to sustain
the development of these plans, the
actual budget set by the Board of
Governors did not expand enough
to accomplish everything.
At the board's request,Vice Presi-
dent for Student Affairs Camacho
and the New Colleges Committee
made substantial cuts to the South
College plans to bring the antici-
pated expenses closer to the origi-
nal- budget estimates. One of the
ideas cut was a new facility for Health
Services.
'We feel that the new
facility is necessary in
order to continue high
quality service in the
future.'
— Graduate Student Association
letter to President Gillis
Despite his decision to take
Health Services out of the building
plans for South College, Camacho
said, "It's pretty well-documented
that we need to improve [Health
Services]."
Director of Health Services Dr.
Mark Jenkins agreed. "When you
compare Rice Health Services to
what other schools have, we don't
See HEALTH, Page 6
by Eunice Song
THKKSHFK STAFF
Emergency Medical Services
Captain and Jones College senior
Noah Reiter was named Campus
EMS Provider of the Year at the
sixth annual National Collegiate
EMS Foundation Conference at Syra-
cuse University Feb. 12-14. "
Reiter was chosen for the award,
the. highest individual honor, out of
thousands of campus EMS provid-
ers.
"When Mark [Escott] told me
that he nominated me, I was obvi-
ously flattered, but when I found out
I won, I was very surprised," Reiter
said. "I do feel like I've done a lot, but
not necessarily that I deserved this
award."
Reiter said he began the EMS
program with Escott (Jones '97), the
1996 EMS director, after realizing
that the Rice community needed
such services.
"Mark and I worked together to
come up with a proposal to give the
administration and to convince them
that it was necessary for Rice to have
an EMS program," Reiter said. "I
knew before I came here that Rice
didn't have such a program, so I was
thinking of starting one up even be-
fore I entered as a freshman."
Rice EMS was also recognized at
the conference. The Striving for
Excellence in Campus EMS Award
is given to campus-based EMS orga-
nizations for service to their com-
munities as well as outstanding de-
velopments, community outreach
programs and improvement in qual-
ity. Of about 150 campus-based EMS
organizations, seven programs re-
See EMS, Page 6
ABI COHEN/THRESHER
Jones College senior Noah Reiter
was named Campus EMS Provider of
the Year by the National Collegiate
EMS Foundation
INSIDE
Men's basketball
loses ground
The muddy waters that make
up the race in the Western Ath-
letic Conference Mountain Di-
vision became downright filthy
last week.
After a 77-47 defeat at the
University of Tulsa Saturday—
the Owls' worst loss of the sea-
son — the men's basketball
team sits in a tie for second
place in the division with just
two games remaining.
Two games, however, can
mean everything.
See Story, Page 11
OPINION
Page 3
Facts are not unlike Legos
NEWS
Page 5
New masters
A&E
Page 8
Gravitate to Rick Spuler
Friday
Thunderstorms and sun, 61-75
degrees
Saturday
Morning thunderstorms give way
to sun in the afternoon, 60-72
degrees
Sunday
Sunny, 47-78 degrees
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