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Also, candidates would save money that would have been used for extra campaigning time. Tim Duffy, head yell leader and a senior marketing major, said the yell leaders support the ranking system because it shortens cam paign time and allows more students to afford to run for positions. Magee said the system also would give the candidates who are voted into office an extra week to prepare for their terms. “It serves the students better,” Magee said. “There won’t be all that campaign material and we, as officers, will be able to serve them Purr-feCtly Hcippy Err| P |o y ees celebrated ‘National Bring Your Pet To Work Day” Monday. Hortense, amid a varietyofea at the floriculture greenhouse, was the pet of the day. better as well.” Duffy said the system would encourage more students to vote. “If people realize they only have to vote once, it will increase voter turnout,” Duffy said. Javier Martinez, chair of the summer election regulation revisions committee, an off-campus senator and a senior English and philosophy major, said the run-off elec tions were meant to guarantee that candi dates were elected with a majority of the votes, but the previous system did not ac complish this goal. “This [ranking] system gives the students what they wanted and eliminated problems with the run-offs,” Martinez said. Magee said every student is able to vote for one of the last two candidates. “With this system, because votes are redis tributed, a majority is certain,” she said. Kyle Sparkman, a senior yell leader and biomedical science major, said this system would benefit the student body because the redistribution of votes would ensure that its opinion is better represented. “Anytime the student opinion is better rep resented, that will help the student body,” Sparkman said. “The candidates will have more student support." Martinez said the difficult part of ranking system is explaining the procts the students. “As long as they (the students) undera it, I can’t foresee anyone having a with it,” he said. Gonzalez said communication on all college campus such as A&M is dil will make the process more difficult to ex] to the student body. Magee said it is crucial that Student eminent provide information on thepn to the students. "It depends on how well we informth and reach them,” she said. “If we full] them, they (the students) will like it.” Student Body President Curtis Childti i Gonzalez and other Student Govemt » members made the decision to usethera/il ing system on a conditional basisfortlefai freshmen elections after meeting wills dent leaders, such as yell leaders, otheiiS dent Government members andResiden Hall Association representatives. Student Government is searchinjB someone to write the computer program would be used in the elections. Six dead after restaurant massacre CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Gunmen massacred five people in a hail of automatic weapons fire at a popular restaurant and killed a state official who rushed to in vestigate the shooting, police and prosecutors said Monday. Authorities declined to com ment on evidence or motive in Sun day night’s shooting, but at least 11 people have now been slain in Juarez since the July 4 death of Ama- do Carrillo Puentes, reputed head of the Juarez drug cartel. Killed in the restaurant were David Ramirez, 28; Maria Eugenia Martinez, 27; Teresa Alida Herrera, 26; Hector Arturo Jimenez, no age available; and an unidentified man in his late 30s, police said. Killed outside the restaurant was Armando Olague, 44, the chief of custody at the Chihuahua state prison in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. 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