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THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2017 | VOLUME 133 ISSUE 24
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
Elections postponed due to technical difficulties
The Student Senate elections, which were originally scheduled to begin Wednesday at 6 a.m., were suspended shortly after beginning Wednesday morning, as a result of technical issues. They will now begin at 6 a.m. Thursday and go through Friday at 4 p.m. Results will be announced and certified on Monday evening after the holiday weekend. Here's what you need to know:
If you don't know who you're voting for:
Educate yourself on the coalitions:
- KUnited is running on platforms of increasing academic success services and establishing a bikeshare program
- OneKU is running on platforms of increasing sexual assault reporting and improving student services, like SafeRide
- Onward is running on platforms of allowing alcohol on campus and holding a University-wide music festival
- TrueKU is running on platforms of expanding University transportation services and programs for multicultural students
- Check out Kansan.com for more information on the coalitions
If you know who you're voting for:
Read up on rulings and how they might affect your vote, including:
- 32 senatorial candidates from all four coalitions were removed from the ticket after failing to comply with rules regarding senatorial applications
- The KUnited campaign manager was taken out of her senatorial race for an off-campus seat she didn't qualify for
- TrueKU lost their senatorial slate, but senators are running independently
- If you've already voted:
- You should have been contacted about recasting your vote, as it is no longer valid
Cast your vote at rockchalkcentral.ku.edu
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32 students barred from ballot
Garrett Farlow, chair of the Elections Commission, defends the decision to bar 32 students from the election.
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DARBY VANHOUTAN
@darbyvanhoutan
On Tuesday night, just seven hours before elections were scheduled to begin, 32 individuals were barred from running.
The decision supported a ruling originally made by the Elections Commission, which disqualified a total of 47 students — running either with a coalition or as independent candidates
because they didn't meet requirements to run. The 32 individuals in question were barred specifically due to problems with the signatures they gathered for their applications.
The Elections Commission's original decision was brought by several coalitions to the Student Senate Court of Appeals, where it was upheld by the court at a hearing Tuesday night.
"We are doing this to try to be equitable. We're not trying to turn people away."
"The Elections Commission rightly decided that the students listed in this petition did not complete the requirements necessary to be a candidate," the court
Garrett Farlow
Elections Commission Chair
ruling stated. "Every single signature of every single student wishing to declare candidacy was checked to ensure the signature was from active students and that the students were eligible to vote for the student named in the petition."
The Court of Appeals, made up of law students Annie Calvert and Joe Uhlman; seniors Sara Prendergast and Jake Vance; and chief justice Michaeli Hennessy, took about five hours to discuss and come to a decision following the 5:40 hearing Tuesday evening.
OneKU presidential candidate Mady Womack represented the petitioners: OneKU, KUnited,
"I think letting them run with their respective coalitions is appropriate given the magnitude of people disqualified and that these people made a good faith effort to participate in the elections," Womack said after the hearing.
Onward and law senator Jonathan Ehrlich.
This "good faith effort" became the focal point of Womack's arguments during the hearing. Womack said students, such as the 15 affected from her coalition, tried their best to collect the minimum 25 signatures required of
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Jackson and his lawyer Hatem Chahine plan to file for diversion on this charge by the end of Wednesday, they said during the arraignment.
Kansas freshman guard Josh Jackson entered a not guilty plea to a charge of misdemeanor vandalism on Wednesday afternoon at his arraignment in Douglas County District Court.
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Missipi Minearan/KANSAN Freshman guard Josh Jackson talks to the media on March 28 in Tulsa Oklahoma
If the charge does go to trial, it will begin on May 24 at 1:30 p.m. If the trial occurs, it will not conflict with the NBA Draft Combine, in which Jackson is expected to attend. The NBA Draft Combine is from May 9-14 in Chicago.
Kansas coach Bill Self said in February that the "appropriate in-house dis-
View photos of the game against Wichita State at kansan.com.
The charge came from an incident of vandalism on Dec. 9 at the Yacht Club, a bar on 530 Wisconsin St. Jackson allegedly damaged the vehicle of a female athlete during an argument with her.
According to the affidavit from the Douglas County District Attorney's Office, the female athlete threw a drink on sophomore guard Lagerald
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Vick inside the bar. Later in the night, Jackson and the female athlete allegedly got in an argument by her car, according to the affidavit.
The original charge from the district attorney asserts that, while over $3,000 of damage was done to the athlete's car, less than $1,000 of it could be attributed to Jackson. The charge suggests that another unidentified individual had damaged other areas of the car.
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