University Daily Kansan, November 19, 1982 Momentum party reacts to loss By VINCE HESS Staff Reporter Diebold was the word at Momentum head-quarters last night. Members of the coalition for student government — including student body presidential candidate Kevin Walker and vice presidential candidate David Tepoorten — listened in disbelief to radio announcements of election results. Walker lost the presidential race to Lisa Ashner of the Consensus Coalition by 523 votes, while several Momentum Senate candidates lost by smaller margins. By shawn hammond Asher was declared the official winner about 10:55 p.m. The vote was 1,903 for Asher and 1,380 for Walker. "Six hundred seems to be quite a large sum," Walker said, citing informal surveys conducted on campus yesterday and Wednesday by Momentum volunteers. "IT'S A SURPRISE," Walker said of the maroon He said he had not decided whether to challenge the presidential results. "We'll look into a challenge," he said. "I'll see how the results come to tomorrow." studying. h named his victory story. "If they have in fact won by 600 votes," Walker said, "the students have given them a clear mandate." Walker said that he had no plans; other than studying, if Ashner's victory stuck. Walker and Tepoorten went to the Consensus victory party about 1 p.m. to concede. The Momentum election party met early in the evening at General's Quarters, 711 W. 23rd St., but left about 10 p.m. The group of about 10 supporters then gathered in Teporten's apartment, 1225 Tennessee St., around a radio and some six-packs. WHILE WAITING for returns, Walker said, "I'm satisfied with the larger voter turnout," attributing the apparent increase to the Momentum campaign. This year's turnout surpassed last year's by about 600 votes and was the largest turnout in at least five years. But Walker said he was disappointed with Momentum's loss of Senate seats by slim margins. "Geez, I can't believe we're losing by just pennies," he said. Walker described the Consensus party as the incumbents, saying that he had expected the elections to be "tough" and that a realistic hope for Momentum was to win half the Senate seats. Walker told the assembled reporters and Momentum backers, "Never get into politics." An aura of gloom enveloped Kevin Walker, Momentum student body presidential candidate, left, and his running mate, David Teporten, as they listened to a radio broadcast listing preliminary results of the Student Senate elections. Leslie Lane, who was elected to a graduate student seat on the Senate and as of 1:30 a.m. today was one of only two Momentum candidates to be elected to the Senate, said she would not work with the Consensus senators unless the voting was proven to be fair. The talk among Momentum supporters turned to what they called "election irregularities." Walker said that he was not a sore loser but that he had heard reports that Consensus supporters told students, while they were waiting in line to vote, to vote for Consensus. Dan Blehler/KANSAN WHEN A REPORT on radio station KJHK at 10:45 p.m. said that Momentum had most of the Senate race and that Consensus presidential candidate Ashner bad won by about 600 votes, several Momentum backers said, "Six hundred votes! No way!" she described the running of the polls as "not very professional" and said that she would support Momentum positions as a senator. Student Senate vote totals Student Body President * Ashner/Cramer (C) Honorable Promotion (M) STUDENT SENATE Allied Health (one seat) - Laura Lonborg (C) Lisa Ferrari (M) . Architecture (from english) (two teams) * Ano Marie Smith (C) 50 * Jim Pipe (ind.) 44 * Rachel Winkler (G) 62 * Julia Brittain (M) 41 One vote each for the coach Schulz, Kenson Knowles, John Business (two seats) Education (two seats) ( two seats) * John Goldstein (C) ... 93 * Roger Tigerstein (C) ... 86 * Mark Thill (M) ... 49 * Davido Shapiro (M) ... 45 - Amy Bush (C) * * Marissa Kissling (C) * Bozhman Reza (M) * Shaire Carruth (M) * David Allen (nd.) * David E. Engineering (five seats) last two days, in accordance with the bill. This year five boxes were placed on campus. Last year boxes were placed at 25 points on campus and in living places. Fine Arts (two seats) - Shari Rogge (C) ... * Nancy DeVore (C) ... * Grady Pheian (M) ... * Nick Vaccaro (M) ( five seats ) * Keith Syspert ( C ) 210 * Kay Lawrence ( C ) 183 * Kay Lawrence ( C ) 184 * John Conardy ( C ) 149 * Daniel Bellhain ( M ) 140 * Paul Reddick ( M ) 136 * Bob Tauber ( M ) 129 * Gregg Krekner ( M ) 124 * Larry Furst ( M ) 124 Journalism (one year) - Leslie Lanne (M) 71 * Thomas Bengtson ind. 69 * Gunnar Bohren can be certified as graduate学生 - Chan Coeff (M)* 71 * Chai Coeff (M)* 78 One each of these Inose Link Arm, Ann Seymour; genera: * Lepidochelys* 73 Law (one seat) - Karen Schluter (C) 83 Gary Portery (vcrt-in) 87 Kristen Larson (C) 84 You vote each for: Maurice Mahoney, Mike Chuck, Wade Worman, Paul Keaton, Leigh McKenna, Fred Lochit, Michael Riggs, Gentleman Dave, Waltkin, Frank Zappo, John Welch, John Leblin, John Hebsh, Rob Bacason, Joe Horsagain, George Haper, Crimson Gymnics, Rob David Adkins, outgoing student body president, said he was surprised that the turnout was higher this year with only campus polling places. Off-campus one seat) Pharmarcy (one spot) (one year) (one year) *Scott Megafin (C)* Janeet Graf (M)* Marlen Hart (M)* 25 19 8 4 (Use table below) * Robert Walker (C) 477 Siren Chapman (M) 474 Social Welfare (one seat) "It's just a mystery to me," he said. Turnout Graduate Student Executive Council (seven senior executives, six junior executive race but is held simultaneously with Senate elections). David Camastellia 67 Dafrey 67 Andrew Ward 77 David Martinez 69 Cornelius Paraskevis 68 Michael Palmer 62 Mary Louise 5 (the year) **Drew Malcolm (C)** 11 Connie Milner (M) 10 Alan McKinnon (writing in) 2 A C Consensus M-Momentum ind—independent l-liquid But Ashner, who gave up a Senate seat to run for president, said election tabulation was not in the hands of the senators. From page one As the result of a Senate bill passed this year, student senators could not tabulate votes. The and because another candidate had spelled his name behind a ballot box. same bill provided for a review board, made up non-senators, who will review the election results starting at 5 p.m. today. All votes were not counted until early this morning. The final results for Nunenaker and Liberal Arts and Sciences senators were still being tabulated at 2 a.m. BALLOTS WERE placed only on campus the Consensus group voting blocs, and they also got the posttraditional support. From page one "And they proved that the beer issue was simply not as important as Mementum wanted Sarah Duckers, chairman of the Senate Committee on Academic Affairs, said, "The best people won. The students didn't buy the hype and the superficiality of Momentum's campaign." Consensus supporters, led by Adkins, remained critical of an editorial that was published in Tuesday's Kansan. The editorial endorsed Walker and Teporten. "NOW WE'RE going to give our endorsement for a Kansan editor," Adkins said during a ceremony in which he presented his office keys to Ashner. But Adkins praised the old Senate in his last moments as student body president. moments as student body president. "The year has been very successful," he said. "The year has been very successful," he said. "It was a good year in which we all grew a lot." Moreover, Adkins said the high voter turnout was especially pleasing. 'Last year, the turnout increased. This year, the turnout increased. And that trend continues. It is a very good signal that people are at least engaged in quality in their student government,' he said. Social From page one $150 to $200 billion deficits facing the system during the next eight to 10 years. Gleckman, who represents Wichita and south-central Kansas, said a final version drafted by Congress probably would contain a combination of several alternatives debated by the commission. "The major components will probably include limiting the cost-of-living increases, bringing new people into the system, accelerating payroll and benefits," Gliekman said. “One half of the Social Security benefits could be taxed under a system where the people are retrained and earn over $20,000 a year. I really know people say they really don't need all their benefits.” BUT BEFORE a final package can be reached, Roberts said. Congress needs to decide the chief responsibility of the Social Security system. Roberts, who represents the vast 1st District of western Kansas, said the system's role had changed during the course of its maturation. "What we must do is define what we want the system to be," he said. "It was initially designed by a computer engineer." program for those who are disadvantaged and peepy to live off of. "But you can't tell to the elderly when that income decides whether they are going to make it or not. So it needs to be decided whether the elderly can have one of need or an income supplement fund." ONE OPTION on which the two congressmen differed was raising retirement age requirements to keep more people paying into the system for a longer period of time. But Glickman said higher age requirements wouldcommunicate an already dismal job climate Roberts said people would accept an increase in the minimum age requirements if the changes were announced well before they went into effect "Our workforce is already shrinking, and I'm not sure students would relish knowing that we might push back retirement three years," he said. Despite the complexity, and deep-rooted emotions hovering over any decision, both congressmen are confident Congress will put the system back on sound financial footing. "If I was a betting man, I would say the system is survivable," Clickman said. "I would say that taking care of the elderly is probably the highest priority of Congress." 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