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Election
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Alice Gonzalez, speaker of the Senate and
a junior agriculture development major, said
run-offs are not being eliminated but are be
ing used more efficiently than in previous
run-off elections. She said the ranking system
should satisfy students and candidates.
“It is a compromise of all the concerns that
have ever been voiced,” Gonzalez said.
Because run-offs would be included in the
general election, campaign time would be
shortened by one week. 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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