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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102,NO.139
FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1993
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Election results
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Student Senate election ballots cast Wednesday and yesterday were tallied last night. Following are the unofficial winners.
PRESIDENT VICE PRESIDENT
John Shoemaker Tim Dawson UNITE
president / vice president Coaction Votes
John Shoemaker / Tim Dawson UNITE 1.315
Ed Austin / Jeff Russell FOCUS 1.231
Jason Mcintosh / Marisol V. Romero A.C.T.I.O.N!! 1.095
Bernard M. Cox / Michael H. Frey UNGANISHA 222
ARCHITECTURE
Rob Alfred / FOCUS Eric Mersmann / FOCUS
BUSINESS
Catherine Bubb/UNITE Bradlev S. Stasiulis/FOCUS
C.L.A.S.
Tonya Cole/UNITE
Lisa Golza/FOCUS
Julie Harris/FOCUS
Octavio Hinojosa/ACTION
Katie Hutchinson/ACTION
Chander Javaraman/ACTION
Nikki Millard/UNITE
Bill Mills/FOCUS
Shannon Newton/UNITE
Ann Perry/FOCUS
kathryn Price/UNITE
Alan W. Tiltwerk/UNITE
EDUCATION
Kristy Abel/FOCUS Anne Weist/UNITE
ENGINEERING
Andrew Irwin/UNITE Paul Wolters/UNITE Trevor Thompson/UNITE
FINE ARTS
Clint' Bloom/ACTION Peter F. Falt/ACTION
GRADUATE
John Altevogt/ACTION
Jeff Bottenberg/UNITE
Alfonso Camenea/ACTION
Michael Guenoule/ACTION
Munish Malik/ACTION
Kelly Staples/ACTION
Chang-shu Tu/ACTION
LAW
Jerry Rank/FOCUS Michelle Ray/UNITE
NON-TRADITIONAL
Alan D. Pierce/UNITE
NUNEMAKER
Chad Boeger/FOCUS
Christy Brown/FOCUS
Ed Foley/FOCUS
Jon Foral/FOCUS
Harris Hoffer/FOCUS
Dan Hare/FOCUS
Gretchen Hayner/FOCUS
OFF-CAMPUS
Hillary Price/UNITE
Steve Simpson/FOCUS
Heidi Carey/FOCUS
Caryen Stuckey/FOCUS
Jill Tibbets/FOCUS
Andrea Toll/FOCUS
Travis Harrod/UNITE
Kristin Lange/UNITE
Shelly Wiltz/UNITE
PHARMACY
RESIDENTIAL
Toya Bowles/FOCUS Matt Cowan/FOCUS
Phillip Mabry/UNITE
SOCIAL WELFARE
Alison Brooks/UNITE Kristina Redding/UNITE
JOURNALISM
Bowtie Becker/UNITE Tim Marks/UNITE
Rachel G. Thompson / KANSAN
UNITE edges out opponents
Off and running
The 68th annual Kansas Relays will shift into full gear today as more than 100 events are scheduled to take place today and tomorrow. Yesterday, the decathlon and heptathlon were completed.
See story, Page 7.
UNITE coalition's president elect John Shoemaker receives congratulations from coalition supporters at the Sigma Chi fraternity house Unofficial election results were announced at 10:47 p.m. last night.
Election results bring cheers, tears
By Jess DeHaven, Will Lewis and Jay Williams Kansan staff writers
Worry filled Tim Dawson and John Shoemaker's faces as the two UNITE candidates awaited the final radio announcement of the Student Senate election results.
But before the radio announcer spoke president-elect Shoe-maker's last name, the pop of a nearby champagne bottle wipped his and vice president-elect Dawson's anxiety away.
About 150 supporters and candidates on the coalition looked at each other with disbelief at the Sigma Chi fraternity. Tears dried up quicker than they appeared on the faces of those who had lost hope in the last few minutes before the 10:47 p.m. announcement.
Eric Medill, Sedan sophomore and UNITE candidate, lost the race for a Nunemaker seat, but he was still pleased with the overall results.
Alan Tikwart, Westwood Hills junior, won a Liberal Arts and Sciences seat for UNITE and said that he thought the coalition's experience made the difference.
"John and Tim were the most qualified in their Senate experience, and I think that showed through in the off-campus vote," Tikwart said.
"I think the right people won," Medill said. "John and Tim are definitely the most qualified. I personally lost, but as long as they won, I'm happy."
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Jason McNithon, left, A.C.T.I.O.N. It presidential candidate,
embraces Marti Minton, journalism senate candidate, while Dan
Estes, right, Nunemaker senate candidate consoles Marisol
Righi, president candidate.
But at two other locations in Lawrence the 10:47 p.m. radio announcement brought silence to some and tears to others.
The atmosphere at the FOCUS coalition party remained calm until the announcement of the FOCUS domination of the Nunemaker seats.
The coalition took 13 of the 14 seats available. That performance convinced the crowd at Delta Upsilon fraternity that Ed Austin, FOCUS presidential candidate, and Jeff Russell, FOCUS vice-presidential candidate, could take the evening's top prize.
Thev missed by 84 votes
A shocked silence hit the room when the presidential winners were announced, but the crowd of about 250 broke into applause moments later.
"Right now, I probably have two feelings," he said. "There's excitement and enthusiasm for next year, but there also disappointment for those who worked so hard and lost."
At Benchwarmers Sports Bar and Grill, 1601 W. 23rd St., A.C.T.I.O.N.II coalition members tried to hear the election results over the pounding rhythms of the bands Fuzz Box
Bill Mills, Hutchinson junior, won a seat in a Liberal Arts and Sciences race.
and Suave Octopus. Coalition members huddled in a storage closet at the back of the bar to hear the disappointing news.
Presidential candidate Jason Mcntosh showed little emotion as he accepted the condolences of other members of A.C.T.I.O.N.!! many of whom burst into tears of exhaustion after a long campaign.
"I put my heart and soul into this campaign for Jason," said Katie Hutchinson, Liberal Arts and Sciences candidate.
her sister, Jane, who served in Senate for four years.
Hutchinson had reason to celebrate earlier in the evening — she had won her election. The victory prompted a phone call to
A disappointed Daron Sinkler, off-campus candidate, said his coalition worked hard to win the election.
"I called her collect," she said.
"It was the first thing I did after I found out I'd won."
"We feel we had the best issues, the best people and a well-rounded group of candidates," he said.
Coalition wins top positions by 84 votes
By Brett Riggs
Kansan staff writer
It was a tight three-way race to the finish line, but the UNITE coalition won the presidential and vice-presidential offices in the Student Senate election by a slim. S4-vote margin yesterday.
According to an unofficial count by the election commission, John Shoemaker, president-elect, and Tim Dawson, vice president-elect, received 1,315 votes. They edged out Ed Austin, FOCUS presidential candidate, and his running mate, Jeff Russell, who received 1,231 votes.
Finishing a close third with 1,095 votes were Jason McIntosh, A.C.T.I.O.N." presidential candidate, and his running mate, Marisol Romero. Bernard Cox, UNGANISHA presidential candidate, and his running mate, Charles Frey, received 222 votes.
The election commission will verify the results on Monday.
Shoemaker said he never gave up on his campaign.
"I've never stopped this campaign and thought, 'What am I going to do if I win?' he said. "I've spent all my money in preparing and trying to get on more vote."
Austin expressed disappointment in the results, but said he owed a lot to the members of his coalition.
"Win or lose, we gave it our all," Austin said. "It's a big disappointment, but I'm very proud of everybody that campaigned."
UNITE won seven of the 15 divisions and swept the journalism and mass communication, social welfare, residential and non-traditional seats.
The closeness of the race was evident in the competition for the individual Senate seats, where UNITE won 16 to one in a tie. Each coalition won 23 seats.
FOCUS won three divisions and was able to match UNITE by taking 12 of 13 Numenaker seals, which represent the top teams. The Liberal Arts and Sciences students.
A.C.T.I.O.N.!! won 12 Senate seats.
It captured six of the 13 graduate seats; however, because only seven candidates ran, none of the seats was contested.
Mcintosh said he was discouraged by what he called low voter turnout, which he said gave organized living groups an advantage.
"There were a number of different factors," McIntosh said. "The weather was the major one."
according to the election commission's unofficial count, 3,863 votes were tallied, compared with last year's 3,995.
Kelli Zuel, election commission member, said the commission had hoped to increase voter turnout by 10 percent.
UNGANISHA was not running as a coalition of senatorial candidates, so it won no Senate seats. Neither Cox nor Frey was available for comment.
Hashinger to open arts week with 'Hair'
By Danielle Raymond Special to the Kansan
Special to the Kansan
The Age of Aquarius will be dawning once again this weekend when Hashinger Hall presents the innovative and shocking 1960s production "Hair" as its annual musical.
The 20-person cast has been rehearsing since late January. Performances will begin at 8 p.m. tonight and run through Sunday in the fall. The final performance will kick off Spring Arts Week for Hashinger.
The musical is as unstrained as any rite of spring. The dance numbers feature a mass of intertwined limbs and strategically placed figures, which usually pulse provocatively to the rhythm of the music.
Tickets will be $1 for general admission and free for Hashinger residents.
When the play was first performed in 1966, it addressed a lot of issues that were considered taboo at the time. Among those issues were sex-relationship, pregnancy, draft-dodging, prejudice and drug use.
Director Janet Glassman, Topeka senior, said she thought the issues addressed in the play 27 years ago were still relevant. The issues that were shocking back then still are — but in a dif-
"We are faced with racial and drug wars every
day, and there are always decisions to be made about sex," she said. "It would have worked even if we had set it in the 1990s instead of the 1960s for our production."
"rtrir" is about a young man named Claude who gets drafted into the military during the Vietnam War. He doesn't know whether to stay or serve his country with his draft card or to serve his country in the war.
The musical tells the story of his decision and of the lives and attitudes of the hippies.
Cast member Sean O'Donnell, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, said he thought the 1990s were similar in many ways to the 1960s.
"is about finding out who you are and what you believe in and then being the person you are and standing up for your beliefs," said Becky Waters, program director for Hashing Hall.
"The youth today will agree with the way the issues are addressed, even though some have changed," he said.
"Free love and sex have definitely changed since the 1960s; it's not free at all in the 1980s. I think that they will mostly agree with the ideas expresses about personal freedom and person-
Billy Davis, Topeka freshman, plays the leader
Story continued. Page 5.
Billy Davis, right, Topeka freshman, helps Kim Trevithick, Overland Park sophomore, stretch before the dress rehearsal of "Hair" at Hashinger Hall Auditorium. The play runs at 8 p.m. tonight through Sunday at the auditorium.