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Two tie in revote race
THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 28,2003
by Michelle Afkhami
THRESHER STAFF
In the Student Association Gen-
eral Election revote, which ended
Wednesday, the only different re-
sult was for one of the three Honor
Council junior representative posi-
tions. Sid Richardson College sopho-
more Rob Daniel, who won the posi-
tion in the first vote, dropped out of
the race, and I^ovett sophomores
Travis Youngblood and Robert
Emmett tied for the junior represen-
tative position.
Neither the SA nor the Honor
Council constitutions have provisions
to deal with election ties, so Honor
Council Chair Joan Shreffler, a Lovett
senior, will change the junior repre-
sentative position to an at-large posi-
tion. IfYoungblood and Emmettwant
to obtain this new position and be
Honor Council members, they will
have to run in the election for at-large
positions, which will be held Tues-
day and Wednesday.
The second election was held af-
ter Emmett petitioned University
Court, SA elections chair Alan Pham
said. Emmett claimed the online elec-
tion instructions did not make it clear
that Honor Council and U. Court elec-
tions were not calculated preferen-
tially, and U. Court justices ruled a
revote was necessary.
The other two junior representa-
tive positions were won by Ix>vett
sophomore Amy Askin and Wiess
College sophomore Elspeth
Simpson, who were also elected in
the first vote. In the race for U. Court
sophomore representatives, Sid
Richardson freshman Katherine
Corley and Wiess freshman Brian
Cohen were again elected.
Cohen said he understood why
U. Court had decided to re-run the
elections.
"There was good logic for having
it run over," Cohen said. "I didn't
even realize when I voted that it
wasn't suppose to be preferential."
The voter turnout in the second
election was about 300 people, or
more than 10 percent of eligible vot-
ers, compared with the first vote,
when about 900 members of the stu-
dent body voted.
SA Director of Technology Skye
Schell said the turnout in the second
election was not much different than
the first.
"It actually wasn't that much
lower [than the first election] be-
cause in any position in the previous
election, the numbers weren't sig-
nificantly higher because not every-
one voted for every position," Schell.
a Baker College sophomore, said.
Pham said the comparable voter
turnout was due to the efforts of SA
senators.
"I'm really grateful to the SA sena-
tors who worked really hard to in-
crease voter turnout," Pham, a Baker
sophomore, said.
Some students did not vote be-
cause of the additional burden of a
second round of voting.
"I had already voted once," I^ovett
sophomore Elizabeth Castrellon said.
Crimes may be connected
ROBBERY, from Page 1
Sullivan said there was no infor-
mation on which direction the sub-
ject fled, but she believed he had
either parked a car in the North
College Lot or an accomplice.
Sullivan said a similar descrip-
tion and the nature of the crime
made officers think the subject in
Wednesday's robbery was the
same who committed the robbery
Sunday morning near Entrance 4.
RUPD Chief Bill Taylor said the
victim had been visiting a Rice friend
and went out to Main Street near
Entrance 4 to be picked up around
1:30 a.m. The individual stood
around for five minutes before be-
ing robbed.
In this incident, the subject was
described as a black male who was 5
feet, 10 inches tall and overweight.
"Fhe subject was seen driving a four-
door black sedan.
Sullivan said police had increased
patrols during the 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
shift.
Sullivan urged students to be
aware of their surroundings.
"Don't be overly friendly if you
don't know somebody, and don't get
out of your car if you don't feel com-
fortable." Sullivan said.
Sullivan said anyone who had
observed suspicious behavior or
had been robbed should call RUPD
or use a blue light phone immedi-
ately.
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U. Court to meet on amendment issue
HONOR, from Page 1
Association's General Election.
Were this the case, the Honor
Council's amendments could not
be voted on until next February.
U. Court will hold an open meet-
ing at 8 p.m. Sunday in the 2nd
Floor Conference Room in the Stu-
dent Center to decide whether the
proposed constitutional amend-
ment can be included on the ballot
forTuesday and Wednesday's elec-
tion of at-large Honor Council rep-
resentatives. U. Court will also con-
sider whether graduate students
also need to vote on the proposal.
U. Court Chair Daniel
Brickman said Bass asked
U. Court to make the decision —
an unprecedented procedure in
this type of event. U. Court will
present a packet with reports from
various groups Sunday.
Honor Council Chair Joan
Shreffler said the council's offic-
ers submitted a statement in re-
sponse to the complaint filed in
U. Court.
The statement, which reflected
an all-council vote, expressed sup-
port for the council's interpreta-
tion of the term "general election"
as not referring to the SA's elec-
tion, which allows the proposal to
be voted on in next week's council
at-large election.
SA co-President Bryan
Debbink said U. Court asked for
the SA opinion to be included in
Sunday's packet. In the statement,
the SA supports the Honor
Council's interpretation of the term
"general election."
"We felt that since we work
with Honor Council in setting up
this election as part of consolidat-
ing into a single general election
rather than a general and spring
election, that accommodating their
needs was important and having a
voice outside of the Honor Coun-
cil advocating that was very im-
portant," Debbink said.
Graduate Student Association
President-elect Robert Cardnell
said the GSA has not yet taken a
position on the issues being dis-
cussed Sunday. He noted, how-
ever, that previous changes of the
Honor Council constitution have
not required a vote of graduate
students.
Shreffler said she presented the
proposal to the Board ofTrustees
Wednesday.
"The board members were very
supportive of the honor system as
a whole and had insightful ques-
tions about our procedures and
our proposal," Shreffler said. "It
was wonderful to hear... perspec-
tives on the current system."
Biology Professor Ron Sass,
chair of the ad hoc committee on
the Honor Council, said the com-
mittee decided to suspend its ac-
tivities until the vote, but it will
continue looking into the issue,
regardless of what happens in the
coming weeks.
Gillis said particular areas the
committee will be looking at are
whether the second level of ap-
peals should go to the president
and whether there are systematic
flaws with the Honor Council's
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