Friday, April 13, 2001
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Delta Force celebrates narrow win
Justin Mills, student body president-elect, and Kyle Browning, vice president-elect, react with enthusiasm upon hearing the news of their victory. Both men thanked Delta Force members and their friends last night for their support in the election. Photo by Selena Jabara/KANSAN
promises," Mills said. Next year, he said, the coalition would show students that Senate would provide results.
Browning looked up at Mills in admiration.
"In the end, it's all about that man right there," Browning said. "It validates everything we've done the last five years in a way that's never been done — all the hard work and all the little victories we've won have all built up to this."
Straining to hear the radio over the screams, Hayley Rumback couldn't believe it when her name was announced as a liberal arts and sciences senator-elect. She let out a loud gasp just minutes after hugging friends at the announcement of the presidency.
"I didn't know it was possible," Rumback said. "This really shows that if you go off and vote that your vote will make a difference."
Mills and Browning said minutes before the announcement of the presidency that a large voter turnout would be a key if they were to win the election. Seconds later, KJKH announced that voter turnout was up from last year. The 4.233 ballots cast added up to a 17.3 percent voter turnout.
Enjoli Dixon, Jefferson City, Mo., sophomore and Delta Force supporter, said that the coalition had identified with students especially well during the campaign.
"They represented students in the right way," Dixon said. "They knew what issues were important to students, and that was something VOICE didn't have."
Rumback said the Delta Force presidential win was a reaction to the opposition being in power for the past five years without making "maior change."
"I think new people will see to making the concrete differences," Rumback said. "I think maybe people were ready for a
change."
Scott McKenzie, Salina sophomore and a candidate who did not win one of the Nunemaker seats to represent freshmen and sophomores, said that he knew that even though he wouldn't be attending Senate meetings that the changes he had fought for would still be addressed by the winners.
"I'm sad I lost, but I know I can be active in other ways," McKenzie said. "It's just important to win
the presidency because we still have change coming."
Browning stood quietly in the shadows of a tree taking in the sight of his friends and supporters drinking and laughing into the night at the coalition's party, behind a small house at 433 Michigan St.
"Really, in a big way, it's just beginning." Browning said. "It really is just a beginning."
- Edited by Joshua Richards
Candidates unhappy despite winning 31 Senate seats
Continued from page 1A
after learning of the results.
Harris hugged Bankston as she cried when they learned of the results. Other candidates expressed shock at the announcement, which they thought would name the VOICE coalition the presidential winner. Some candidates booed as victor Justin Mills was interviewed on KJHK.
Harris could not be reached for comment. He left the building
Tracy Chiles, who won an education seat, cried and yelled in frustration of the results.
Branden Bell, who lost his bid for a liberal arts and sciences seat with theVOICE coalition, said he was extremely surprised that Bankston and Harris lost. He said he couldn't pinpoint a reason for the loss.
"I don't know what happened," Bell said. "I can't really give you
the reason. I just feel horrible for Jessica. She was the most qualified candidate. She worked her ass off."
Brett Skaugstad, who ran for and won a Nunemaker seat representing freshmen and sophomores, said she was stunned by the results.
"I think the voter turnout is positive and that's a positive for the University," she said.
Brett Logan, who ran for a graduate seat and lost, said he was upset with the results.
"I'm pretty disappointed with the result." Logan said. "I thought I had a pretty good chance, but I guess graduate students didn't think I had what it takes."
Logan was one of six candidates eliminated in the Feb. 28 primary elections for Lawrence City Commission.
Edited by Sydney Wallace
Election results announcement at Union flops
Candidates choose to learn fates at parties
By Amanda Beglin and Sarah Smashr writer@kanson.com Kanson staff writers
Mike LeCount, independent candidate for law senator, sat in a suit and tie in the English Room in the Kansas Union, awaiting Student Senate election results.
Meanwhile, some Delta Force andVOICE coalition candidates awaited their fates at their respective galas in true college style — with beers in hand and dressed to party.
But that's not how it was supposed to happen.
The elections commission invited candidates to its official announcement of election趴命 in the Union in hopes that the candidates would stray from the alcohol-saturated festivities of election nights past.
But Delta Force and VOICE representatives failed to appear. Instead, a modest group that included elections commissioners and current members of Senate gathered briefly and quietly as Dustin Johnson, elections commissioner, announced the winners. Following the announcement, Senate members rushed to congratulate Delta Force members at their party.
LeCount, a Hays first-year law student, said he attended the event because he wanted to take advantage of the first opportunity to hear results — and because he had no
soiree to attend.
Ben Walker, student body president, said the gathering drew no coalition members because they had opted to celebrate with their comrades.
"Those people want to be with the people they run with," said Walker, who bolted into the door to an awaiting limousine after Johnson relayed the outcome.
"There wasn't really a big party for the independents," LeCount said with a laugh, after learning that he had won a law seat.
Walker and Marlon Marshall, student body vice president, agreed that the suspense was best experienced waiting for the traditional announcement from KJHK, 90.7 FM. Walker said the tradition was a big part of the elections.
Despite a bill that Senate passed last Wednesday to prohibit the elections commission from mandating an announcement location, Katy Ferrell, elections commission chairwoman, viewed the Union gathering as a culmination of the commission's successful efforts to make sure the campaign ran smoothly and justly.
"All the candidates worked hard, and so did the elections commission." Ferrell said.
The bill, which stated that election winners would continue to be announced on KJHK, will take effect next year, preventing a disappointing candidate turnout at commission-designed locations in future elections.
Edited by Melissa Cooley
Winds damage KU structures
by Katherine Mour
writer @kansen.com
Special to the Kansan
By Rachel Moluf
Powerful winds left their mark on buildings all over campus on Wednesday.
Shingles were torn off the roofs of Malott and Snow halls. Part of a gutter hanged precariously on the south side of Stauffer-Flint Hall and shingles had been torn off the roof. Glass doors were broken in Murphy, Learned and Blake halls. Tree branches littered the campus, too.
Randy Samuels, associate director of maintenance and construction for Facilities Operations, said crews from Facilities Operations would work as fast as they could to make repairs.
"We'll take the worst one first and work from there," he said.
Rick Nightingale, assistant director of construction for Facilities Operations, said the worst damage was in Learned Hall.
"A door shattered and glass was sticking up everywhere," he said. "We boarded the door up Wednesday at 3 p.m. and completely replaced the glass early Thursday morning."
Nightingale said that workers wanted to fix the dangerous areas first.
Yesterday, a crew removed the dangling gutter from Stauffer-Flint and began repairing the roof. Workers also boarded up the broken door in Murphy Hall and placed laminated film over the shattered glass in a door in Blake Hall.
Ray Morris, facilities maintenance supervisor for Facilities Operations, said he knew of at least seven doors that had broken.
Powerful winds Wednesday shattered a door on the west side of Blake Hall. Dudley Fishburn, maintenance carpenter for Facilities Operations, said it would be repaired by next week.
Photo by Katie Moore/KANSAN
"We put a film over the glass so that it doesn't fall out," Morris said. "With as many doors as we had broken, we just had time to go around and laminate them all."
Dudley Fishburn, maintenance carpenter for Facilities Operations, said that broken doors, such as the one in Blake, could be a fire hazard.
Fishburn said he expected the doors to be fixed by next week.
Edited by Doug Pacey
Students chosen for playwrighting awards
By Sarah Smarsh
by Sarah Smitsh
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Two English Alternative Theatre playwrights have won national honors.
Alan Newton, Lawrence graduate student, has won the Lorraine Hansberry Playwrighting Award — an award for student-written plays about African-American issues — in the Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival. His full-length play, Whiteout, features three Caucasian characters struggling to deal with race issues in the wake of a politically correct era. Newton wrote Whiteout for a playwriting class taught by Paul Stephen Lim, professor of English.
Newton's awards will include $2,500 cash, the publication and licensing of his play by Dramatic Publishing Company and an internship to the National Playwrights Conference at the O'Neill Theater Center this summer. English Alternative Theatre will receive a $750 grant for producing the play.
Lim said Newton's play deserved acclaim for dealing with a controversial issue from a unique angle.
"What makes *Whiteout* outstanding is that it dares to tackle the issue
honestly from a White point of view," Lim said.
Robert Elliott, English lecturer and administrative assistant, attended a performance of Whiteout. He said the play was "wonderfully written" and afforded an opportunity "for White viewers to examine themselves."
Newton's play was selected for performance at the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival regional festival in January.
Bunnies: A Fantasy Play About Hugh Hefer, by Michael O'Brien, was also featured at regionals and was selected for the national festival Thursday, April 26 and Friday, April 27 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. All members of the production will travel to Washington with funds from the Kennedy Center to present the play. It will be the fourth time in the 33-year history of the national festival that the University of Kansas will send a production to the Kennedy Center.
Bunnies, performed in Lawrence in September, will stage a benefit performance at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 25, at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts.
"We're getting two gifts in the same week," Lim said. Edited by Summer Lewis
nan lakou a: a 2 day celebration of Haitian music and culture come join us for presentations on Haitian life, culture, music, politics, drumming & drum making, and food april 13 & 14, noon-4pm, ecm (12th & oread)
featuring special guests: Tito, Makoume, Matisou Legba and Ya Tande, Kebyesoudanle, Azouke, and traditional drum maker Cedanor Henrius
sponsored by the african studies resource center, the center of latin american studies, the institute of haiti studies, student senate, the latin american studies graduate student organization, and the fellowship and learning organization for the study of the subaltern
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-April 12, Maundy Thursday - 7:30pm.
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-April 12, Noon
-"Expiration on the Way"
- and 7:30pm "Colors of Grace"
musical presentation - passion of Jesus
-April 15, Easter Sunday - Celebration of
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