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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1985)
70 OOc UD\d VOO VHa , . M .„... ... N/OT^ on oornjoi-is at 3 locations By SUZANNE METSCHER Reporter If you are a student at Texas A&M and have a current I.D. you are eligible to vote in the up coming student elections, says Laura Madia, Student Govern ment election co-commisioner. Elections will be Wednesday and Thursday. Students can vote in the Memorial Student Center main lounge, the first floor of the Pavilion and the A-1 Lounge near Keathley and Fowler. Polls open at 9 a.m. and close at 6 p.m. both days. Students will vote on scan- trons. Write-in votes will be ac cepted in races in which no one is running or in which all the po sitions have not been filled. Results will be announced Thursday at 10 p.m. by the Law rence Sullivan Ross statue in front of the Academic Building. All the elections are settled by a majority vote except the sen ators, the yell leaders and the graduate student council. Those positions are filled with a plural ity vote. If no candidate in a race other than those settled by a plurality does not have a majority, a run off election is held between the two candidates getting the most votes, said Jim Collins, election co-commisioner. The winner of the run-off is determined by a majority. If there is a tie for second place in the regular elections when none of the candidates have a majority, a run-off is held between the three receiving the most votes, Collins said. These elections are determined by a plurality. Run-offs are scheduled for April 3. Student Government plans to solicit the aid of residence halls to help encourage participation in the election, Collins said. Stu dent Government also plans to advertise through the use of fly ers on shuttle buses. Voters' Guide The Voters’ Guide is a spe cial supplement to The Battal ion. This guide was prepared by The Battalion staff to assist Texas A&M students in choos ing candidates in this week’s student elections. Journalism 303 students wrote the copy and the staff assisted with the production of this supplement. On The Covers You know it’s spring time at Texas A&M when the flowers start popping up and when the signs of candidates start going up for student elections. These signs are near the Memorial Student Center. r Contents Student Body President 5 Senior Yell Leaders 6 Junior Yell Leaders 7 Vice Presidents 8 Class Presidents 9 Representatives 10 Polling Locations 11 PT^sid^nt: was ‘sucessful year’ By KIMBERLY PETTIBON Reporter It has been a successful year with few problems for the 1984- 85 student government at Texas A&M, David Alders, student body president, said Wednesday in an interview. Some major accomplishments of Student Government in volved helping the community through the Big Event, sponsor ing blood drives, sending a group of students to Austin to support Proposition 2, and help ing to raise the $25 maximum check cashing policy to $50, Ald ers said. Many new activities were started this year, Alders said. “For example, this fall, we challenged the University of Texas to a blood drive, and we won,” Alders said. “Our slogan was‘Bleed the hell outta t.u;!’ Some issues in which Student Government was involved in this year included: • The proposed tuition hike in which a Legislative Study Group was formed to study the proposal and give their opinion; • The Gay Student Services resolution which was passed by the student Senate but vetoed by the student body president; • Allowing women in the band in which it decided that women should not be discour aged from participating. Lusk and Alders agreed that one of the major issues facing the new administration will be the question of whether a core curriculum should be estab lished. Alders said that the fac ulty believes it would add to a well-rounded education, but many students feel that they are already receiving one. It will be a difficult issue to face, Alders said. Finally, Alders said that stu dent government is doing all it can to give the students a chance to express their opinions. A 30- minute period is set up to allow guests to speak at Senate meet ings, and appointments can be made to talk, face to face with a Student Government represen tative. “We also use a survey to find out student opinions,” Alders said. “We take a simple random sample of 1,000 students and send them 10 to 15 questions. Off-campus residents vote by wards When off-campus students go to the polls for the Student Government elections this week, they will be divided into four senatorial wards. The Bryan-College Station area will be divide into four wards at the intersection of Texas and University avenues. Ward I is the area southeast of the intersection. Ward II con sists of the the area southwest of the intersection. Ward III is made up of the area northeast of the intersection, and Ward IV is the area northwest of the intersection. At the polls, students will be asked their classifications, their academic colleges and their wards, said Laura Madia, elec tion co-commissioner. Students will vote with scan- trons which will be provided at the polls. The computer will not count ballots on which stu dents vote in more than one ward. Exact addresses will not be checked, Madia said.