THE UNIVERSITY OF JALIY KANSAN
FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2009
NEWS
3A
Ryan Waggoner/KANSAN
Students of Liberty presidential candidate Adam Wood, Lawrence junior, dejectedly watches as election results are announced on Thursday afternoon at Wood's apartment. Wood, and vice presidential candidate Johnathan Wilson, Paola junior, placed third in their race, receiving 6 percent of the vote.
Wood's second run ends in disappointment again
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY
agarry@kansan.com
The party was smaller this year, but the hopes were higher. As a result, so was the disappointment.
About 15 students gathered for the Students of Liberty watch party Thursday afternoon, joking, drinking and waiting for the announcement of the winning coalition.
Adam Wood, Lawrence senior and Students of Liberty presidential candidate, said he thought the controversies surrounding the coalitions made for a race in which anything could happen.
"I'm putting everyone on an equal level." Wood said before the results were announced.
If Wood was going to put
money on any result, he said, it would be that United Students would lose.
When the election was called for United Students, Wood and others expressed great surprise.
"I just don't understand," Wood said. "It just goes to show, money wins elections."
Wood and vice-presidential candidate Johnathan Wilson, Paola junior, said they would try to get replacement senate seats and focus their groups efforts at the national level.
"Students of Liberty will win somewhere," Wood said. "I hope its KU next year."
Students of Liberty lost the election with 339 total votes, or six percent, overall.
— Edited by Justin Leverett
RUNNERS UP
Matt Bristow/KANSAN
Members of Envion celebrate as the election results are announced Thursday at Alex Porete's house. United Students won the election by 95 votes.
Envision's clouds have silver lining
BY MICHELLE SPREHE
msprehe@kansan.com
After weeks of campaigning and two days of elections, Envision candidates JJ Siler, Alex Porte and about 45 other members of the coalition gathered in Porte's home and found that the coalition had lost by 95 votes. Siler, Overland Park junior, and Porte, Great Falls, Va., junior, lost the presidential and vice-presidential seats to United Students' Mason Heilman and May Davis.
"I'm not content accepting that because it's not certifiable yet." Siler said.
Davis was eliminated from the ballot by the election commission Tuesday night for alleged improper contact with members of the election commission, who were also members of her sorority.
She was put back on the ballot early Wednesday morning by Chancellor Robert Hemenway.
"It's a constant struggle when you're dealing with an incumbent that does not know how to behave." Siler said.
Porte said he wouldn't appeal the decision of the student body, but he would complain to the elections commission that United Students didn't follow the rules.
"Ninety-five votes is such a close election," Porte said. "We really need to examine how each coalition not those votes."
Thirty-nine Envision candidates won senate seats and United Students candidates won 27 senate seats.
"Our coalition is much bigger and more important than JJ and myself", Porte said. "The fact we didn't win every single seat isn't a disappointment."
Edited by Justin Leverett
Tyler Waugh/KANSAN
Tutu Lee, Manhattan senior, downs a beer at Jo Shmos with Sandell Stangl, Wichita junior, after losing the Student Senate election on Thursday. Lee and his running mate, Rahul Desai, won 3 percent of the vote for student body president and vice president.
Tutu Lee's $4,000 does not get girlfriend back
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
bcutcliff@kansan.com
After spending $4,000 on a campaign that began with a YouTube video, Tutu Lee, Manhattan senior, said it was no surprise to him that he lost. He said he didn't run to win back his girlfriend, as he stated in the video, but instead to take away votes from the Envision campaign. Lee received 3 percent of the student vote, garnering him last place in the election.
Even as Lee criticized members of the incumbent coalition United Students and its established opposition coalitions, he said he enjoyed his run for president and enjoyed working with them.
Lee said that what he disliked most about the Envision coalition was the similarity between its and President Obama's Web sites. He said he "pissed himself in ecstasy" when he heard the final results of the student election.
— Edited by Justin Leverett
CAMPUS HOUSING RESIDENTS
Erin Robinson - United Students
OFF-CAMPUS RESIDENTS
Tyler Enders - Envision
Courtney Rooney - Envision
Matt Rissien - Envision
Libby Johnson - United Students
Patrick Newsum - Envision
CLAS: FRESHMAN/SOPHOMORI
SENATE SEAT WINNERS
Zach Mingo - United Students
CLAS: JUNIOR / SENIOR
CLAS: FRESHMAN/SOPHOMORI
Megan Ritter - United Students
Ben Wilinsky - United Students
lan McGonigle - United Students
Monica Saha - United Students
Rachel Schultz - United Students
Hunter Hess - United Students
Sarah Shier - United Students
Paige Blevins - United Students
Tania Salas - United Students
Brad Rector - United Students
Jette Higgins - United Students
Dylan Slaven - United Students
Emily Fike - United Students
CLAS: JUNIOR / SENIOR
Darrel Stuckey II - Univ. Student
Elise Higgins - Envision
Katie Oberthaler - Envision
Benjamin Cohen - Envision
Matt Erickson - Envision
Alan Schurle - Envision
Jessica Brooks - Envision
Andrea Peterson - Envision
Sam Atherton - Envision
Cans Coppel - Envision
Sameer Sharma - Envision
Matthew Shaw - Envision
Marek Brzozowski - Envision
Mike Stock - Envision
GRADUATE SCHOOL
Kellee Kirkpatrick - Envision
Kelly Dugan - Envision
Rachel Magario - Envision
Sharla Cruse - Envision
Ennie Ndoro - Envision
Tom Cox - Envision
Rob Topinka - Envision
Jim Stoutenborough - Envision
Mark Pacey - Envision
Slade Bond - Envision
SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
Chase Bray - Envision
Jessica Janasz - United Students
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Carmen Arriaga-Bucher - Envision
Bailey Knott - Envision
SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Clark Stinson - United Students
Stephen Sanger - United Students
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Chris Martin - Envision
Nancy Xiao Liang - Envision Ibrahim Alanqar - Envision
SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM
Justin Sailer - Envision
Clayton Volker - United Students
SCHOOL OF LAW Chris Kaufman - United Students Eric Foss - Envision
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Katie Blackburn - United Students
Emily Littrell - United Students
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WELFARE Matthew Blankers - United Students Mandi Cervitz - Envision
NON-TRADITIONAL STUDENTS
Scott Anderson - Envision
Felix Zacharias - Envision
Aaron Van Rees - Envision
BREAKDOWN OF TOTAL SENATE SEATS FOR 2009-2010
39 seats
27 seats
PRIDE (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
way to show that even though traditional hip-hop was thought of as homophobic and exist, there were ways to use the medium to promote equality and strength.
Campbell said he was excited to have Scott Turner Schofield
perform his play "Debutane Balls" next week. Schofield uses humor in his performances to educate others about the transgender community.
One thing Campbell said he hoped students would take away
from the week's events was a better understanding of the similarities between the straight and LGBT communities.
pride week 2009 schedule
MONDAY, APRIL 20:
MONDAY, APRIL 20:
10:50-1:50 p.m. Kiss-In
Lawn in front of Strong Hall
7 p.m.: Lecture by Keith Boykin "Diversity without Division: Building an Inclusive Campus" Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
TUESDAY, APRIL 21:
12:30-1:30 p.m; Discussion,
"Closeted Violence: Sexual Assault in the Queer Community"
Big 12 room, Kansas Union
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22:
10 p.m.-2 a.m: Pride Prom,
theme: "Bottom of the Sea"
Wild's Chateau 24 at 24th and
lowa
7 p.m. Performance of play "Debutere Balls" by Scott Turner Schofield Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
THURSDAY, APRIL 23:
7 p.m. Performance by feminist hip-hop group Las krudas
Classroom, The Multicultural Resource Center
FRIDAY, APRIL 24:
Noon-2 p.m.
Brown Bag Drag show
Kansas Union front patio
SATURDAY, APRIL 25TH:
Noon
Pride Parade
Meet at playground in South Park at (approx. 12th and Massachusetts), marching to Watson Park
Followed with a performance by Kristie Stremel
HUMANITIES LECTURE SERIES 2008-2009
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THE DECLINE & PROSPECT OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY
Dipesh Chakrabarty
April 20, 2009 | Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union | 7:30 p
Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, is a leading scholar of subaltern studies. His books include Rethinking Working Class History. Bengal 1890-1940 and Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Chakrabarty's current work focuses on the development of history as a profession in South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century and its relationship to public life. He has also been working on changing forms of mass politics in the subcontinent.
Additional Event
Additional Event
A Conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty
A Conversation with Dipesh Chakrabarty April 21, 10 a.m. Hall Center Conference Hall
This series is co-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio. Partial funding for the Humanities Lecture Series is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities' 2000 Challenge Grant.
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