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SENATE ELECTIONS
REFERENDUMS
1: Should the University of Kansas make all efforts to ensure that it be reliant upon renewable energy for 20 percent of its power supply by the year 2020? Furthermore, the Student Senate shall reallocate student fees to allow for the creation of a $1.50 renewable energy and sustainability fee.
2: Would you support a $4 increase to the SafeRide fee to support the "SafeBus" program that would provide bus routes during the evenings and nights on the weekend to and from downtown Lawrence?
3: Would you support a $2 homecoming fee to provide for events during Homecoming week?
Hannah Love, Dodge City junior, and Ray Wittlinger, Olathe junior, react to the announcement of the election results in the Yacht Club on Thursday evening. Love and Wittlinger, who represent the United Students coalition, were elected president and vice president of Student Senate.
Although it did not secure the presidency, Delta Force won 27 Student Senate seats. Members will continue to work on expanding the blue-light system and subsidized STD and infection testing.
United Students wins presidency
BY ASHLEE KIELER
Dressed in similar attire, Hannah Love, Dodge City junior and presidential nominee for United Students, and running mate Ray Wittlering, Olathe junior, grasped plastic cups of
champagne while waiting for election results.
Love and Wittlinger, surrounded by fellow United Students nominees and supporters, nervously watched KUJH's election coverage at the Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin St.
The restaurant erupted in yells each time a United Students candidate secured a Senate seat.
The moment Love and Wittlinger worked months for finally arrived.
With 51 percent of the student vote, Love and Wittinger won the
top seats in next year's Student Senate. They beat out Delta Force by 440 votes and Students' Rights by 1754 votes.
"I'm in shock right now," Love said. "Our candidates were the
Students' Rights candidates were left with no Senate seats. The presidential and vicepresidential nominees said they hoped to run for future executive positions.
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Students passed three referenda, and selected a president, vice president and 65 senators during voting on Wednesday and
Thursday.
HEARST COMPETITION
Journalists win awards KU to send two writers to national competition in June
BY DANAE DESHAZER
The University of Kansas may have lost basketball bragging rights this year, but the School of Journalism won the national championship in writing, placing first in the 47th annual Hearst Journalism Awards Program intercollegiate writing competition.
"Once again, KU journalism students have shown that this University traditionally excels at the highest levels in areas other than basketball," said Ted Frederickson, professor of journalism. "Since the Hearst Awards are highly competitive and recognize only exceptional reporting and writing, finishing first is a major accomplishment."
The University of Missouri came in second place and Arizona State University placed third. A total of 107 accredited schools of undergraduate journalism participated in the competition.
The School of Journalism was awarded $15,800 for its
Mondale: Let's get along
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BYTYLER HARBERT
Walter Mondale did more than just serve as vice president of the United States for Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s.
Mondale spoke Thursday night to a sold-out crowd in the Dole lecture hall, a building he was more than obliged to visit.
"He essentially created the modern vice presidency," said Bill Lacy, director of the Dole Institute of Politics.
by the beauty of this Dole center;" Mondale said.
"I am delighted and stunned
The former vice president discussed not only his role in revamping the second-in-command position, but he also shared his views on current politics, as well as his respect for Sen. Robert Dole.
He said Dole had been a war hero in America's greatest generation and he had the ability to work with both parties during his years in office.
"He's got a second engine that most of us don't have," Mondale said.
His father, Theodore Mondale, was a liberal preacher who always talked about a "social gospel," which asked Christians to give personal worship to God as well as give service to their fellow human beings.
Mondale said that inspired him to get involved in public office at an early age.
"It just came naturally," he said. "I think I was on the trail at 16 years old."
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rowing
profile
The team heads to New Jersey to race in the Knecht Cup. They will compete against more than 50 other schools.
concert
Michelle Tran tests her own limits, from music to politics.
SUA organized the annual Day on the Hill concert, but students will have to pay $5 for
4A admission to the event Saturday.
softball
Kansas faces Texas A&M this weekend in home series.