CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 16, 1984
Page 9
Charles Lawhorn, Momentum Coalition vice president candidate, receives information about the Student Senate elections in a Jayhawk Tower apartments while Karen Gustafson, Leawood senior, left, and Adam Herman, New York City junior, center, wait to hear the results.
Momentum faces 3rd place finish
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
As the sounds of drunken laughter from other patrons at The Wheel filled the air, members of Momentum Coalition soberly faced the news that they were in third place.
The votes from the Strong Hall ballot box had been counted when the 10:30 p.m. update of the Student Senate elections reached them at their election night headquarters.
"There are nine boxes left to go, and there's going to be lots of Momentum votes in those boxes," said Charles Lawhorn. Momentum's candidate "It's just showing Greek strength and not the KU strength."
Mark "Gilligan" Sump, Momentum's presidential candidate, quietly said. "I'm still very confident. We're to have to wait until we know more."
But the final unofficial results left Lawhorn and Sump. with 494 votes, in
third place behind Frontier and & Toto Too.
UPON HEARING THE totals after ballot boxes from the Kansas Union had been counted, the coalition behind Frontier and *Toto Too* behind Frontier and *Toto Too*
Lawhorn, still hopeful about Momentum's chance despite its strangling position, said the split between his coalition and *Toto Too* had divided the support that they could have had running as one coalition.
"Frontier, quite honestly, is only interested in their resumes. "Sump
"If we don't win, it's not us who are losers, it's the student here," he said.
Throughout the evening, the coalition members and their supporters seemed assured of their upcoming victory. Tearing down Frontier walls and flying them as paper airplanes, the group joked and ate pizza.
election. I think we're the only coalition that's really done anything," Mike Geller, Momentum's campaign manager and Numeraker candidate, said as the coalition members slowly arrived to await news.
"IF I TRUST students at KU as I think I should, I think we will win this
Despite the visible assurance of the coalition members in the hours before they had heard any results, the situation was now overwhelmed every time the telephone rang.
Steve Simpson, bartender at the Wheel, took the tension in his stride as he casually served the customers.
"It it seems like they're all really antsy since they haven't heard anything yet. I was talking to the vice president of our college kind of jimmy." Simpson ssa了。
"There's going to be some cover-up." Kirn Brickman, treasurer and Nunemaker candidate, said about the Frontier Coalition.
DURING THE CELEBRATING however, some of the coalition member expressed their discontent with the actions of other coalitions.
They sought solace in potato chips and pizza last night, these candidates had tried but failed in their races for Student Senate posts.
Candidates react to tallies
In some rooms the din was quieted as results were announced; candidates for one coalition marked the end of the campaign by sleeping.
Those who could be reached for comment on the race listed varying reasons for the election's outcome.
Fresh Vegetables Coalition
A plate of greasy, ripped potato chips was as close as the Fresh Vegetables Coalition got to eating the real thing as about 40 coalition supporters and candidates waited last night for Senate election results.
The first results were heard at 10:50 p.m.
Silencing the crowd and the talking heads, Chris Admussen, Fresh Vegetables presidential candidate, infront of the overwhelming lead by Frontier
Although it disappointed Admussen and supporters,it didn't surprise them.
Frontier will probably win, Admussen said, a prediction that was borne out by later results.
"But after they get over the jubilation of winning, I hope they realize that they promised a lot more than we have," he said, "and they'll have to live up to it."
Scott Focke. Alwood sophomore and the Fresh Vegetables candidate for Nunemaker senator, agreed with Admussen.
"If they do get elected," he said while he siped on a glass of champagne, "I hope they address the issues more realistically."
The final results with all polling places reporting showed Frontier leading with 1,336 votes and Freshables in fifth place with 243 votes.
The coalition's supporters said the practical approach of Fresh Vegetables is a key part.
Kathleen Witt, Rockport, Maine, freshman, said she liked Fresh Vegetables 'ideas and thought that if they were better made they had the few promises they made.
"They seem more interested in doing things than just talking," she said. "They were always in the background with good ideas."
experience, which they considered an advantage rather than a disadvantage.
Most of the coalition candidates had no previous Student Senate
"We're a new group in the Senate." Admissen said. "We don't care about resumes. We just want to get things done, especially in human rights, a drunken bus and strategic lighting."
Besides being disappointed about Frontier's lead, Admissen and other coalition candidates couldn't believe the Reality Coalition was ahead of them after ballots from Strong Hall and the Kansas Union had been counted. That put Fresh Vegetables in fifth place ahead of only the Navy Jack Coalition and the Beautiful Day Commission.
"We wanted to be at least in the top three." Focke said. "If we were in the top three, then it would mean we'd be in hearing range of the majority of students."
Admussen topped off the disappointing news with a premature concession speech.
Navy Jack Coalition
He said, "Let them eat beets."
While other coaltions gathered at election night parties, Tom Crisp and Jackie Hirbe, Navy Jack presidential and vice presidential candidates, slept.
Hirse said last night that a party had been planned for Saturday night at Tom Rodenberg's house. Rodenberg and his vegetables' vice president candidate.
Hirbe said her coalition had accomplished what it had intended by making people aware of certain issues, including free speech.
"I think all the coaltions are invited," Hirbe said. "It will be good to enjoy ourselves instead of stabbing others."
"We made enough people realize why we feel free speech is not very free," she said. "Win or lose, we feel like we won."
Navy Jack was in sixth place with 159 votes.
Although Hirbe had been too busy to watch voters at the polls, she said, she thought there would be a large turnout.
"Boog and Carla aroused a lot of interest in Student Senate," she said. "This shows in the large number of candidates who ran."
better than last year, as far as organization goes," Hirte said.
"I think this election was much
Reality Coalition
John McDermott. Reality presidential candidate, said he didn't plan on getting much sleep last night.
"I won't be able to sleep, not until find out the results." McDermott said, anxiously waiting to hear the first word of election results.
Several attempts to reach coalition members after many of the results had been tabulated were unsuccessful. They did speak about the election earlier in the evening.
Reality finished fourth with 298 votes.
McDermott's running mate, Pam Rutherford, and about a dozen Realty senatorial candidates and friends relaxed in McDermott's room in McCollum Hall. With pizza boxes and tin canisters of cookies scattered on the floor, the group reflected on the coalition's campaign.
"It's been so much fun," McDermott said. "I rode on the bus a day Wednesday and met a lot of great people who got the driver a endorsement."
McDermott, Rutherford and several Reality coalition members started their post-election evening in doing what they do every week: asking the members of the Maranatha Christian Ministries in the Frank R. Burge Union
Both McDermott and Rutherford are born-again Christians, although they said not all members of Reality shared their beliefs.
McBermond said he was confident that his colection would do well when the team won.
"I're really confident," he said.
"But I'm at peace. Tomorrow is another day. The sun will come up, life will go on. Just look at the atmosphere here."
Beautiful Day
Nathan Collins and David Spear, presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Beautiful Day Commission, could not be reached for comment last night. With ballots from Strong Hall and the Union counted, they had received 38 write-in votes.
Information for this story was supplied by staff reporters Erika Blacksher, Gwen Tompkins, Julie Comine and John Egan.
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