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Elections
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commission is to make sure that everyone has an
equal opportunity to run for any position,”
Graham said.
The election commission sets restrictions on
campaigning dates and budgets to ensure an equal
playing field for all candidates.
A&M students will have the opportunity to
hear candidates’ positions at the RHA candidate
forum, which will be held at 4:30 p.m. March 23
in the Sbisa Dining Center quiet room.
A student body president and yell leader forum
will be held in the Memorial Student Center Flag
Room March 30.
If needed, runoff elections will be held on
April 7 and 8.
Eddie Garcia, a senior accounting major, said he
voted online for the first time last year and found it
more convenient than voting with a paper ballot.
“I think publicizing the online voting more
would make more people vote because it’s so
much easier to get to a computer than to get to the
MSC,” Garcia said.
Election results will be announced at midnight
on April 2, and runoff results will be announced at
midnight on April 9 at the Sul Ross Statue in
Academic Plaza.
Candidates
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and when the administration discusses where
money is going, he is the students’ liaison to the
administration.
“I hope someone in that position has the stu
dents’ best interests in mind,” Mahaffey said.
Robert Strawser, chair of the vice president
for student affairs search advisory committee
and accounting professor, said that the new vice
president for student affairs will need to under
stand and appreciate the different role of stu
dents governing A&M.
“We need to attract the best person to fill this
position,” he said. “They have to also value our
unique tradition-rich campus while being able to
promote change within that context.”
Josefy said the vice president for student
affairs plays a vital role in determining the future
of the University, from what the campus looks
like to any major University decision.
“This is a person who will be there year after
year while student leadership changes,” Josefy
said. “This is a person who remains in the posi
tion to directly report to the president about the
role of student involvement.”
Fourth student suicide at NYU
By Amy Westfeldt
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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NEW YORK — A 19-year-
old New York University student
committed suicide by jumping
from a high-rise roof, the fourth
student to die in a plunge this
academic year, officials said.
Diana Chien, a transfer stu
dent from California, jumped
from the 24-story, off-campus
building Saturday, officials said.
The city medical examiner ruled
her death a suicide.
University officials notified
students of Chien’s death via
e-mail Monday.
“People are sort of angry and
bitter,” freshman Dana Delger
told The New York Times for a
story in Wednesday editions.
“They don’t understand why
this keeps happening.”
The New York Post tabloid
published a front-page photo of
Chien’s plunge off the building,
and university officials said
Wednesday the decision to rerun
the photo worsened the commu
nity’s pain.
The photograph was used
inside the newspaper Sunday
with a story quoting witnesses to
the woman’s fall, and it was
republished Wednesday on the
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front page with Chien’s identity.
“Given that this had already
been in the paper once, it seems
to show an appalling lack of
judgment and insensitivity to the
young woman’s family and a
disregard for the feelings of stu
dents at NYU,” university
spokesman John Beckman said.
The newspaper's Sunday edi
tion quoted the photographer,
Scott Schwartz, saying the person
in the photograph had her back to
the street when she leaped and
stayed completely still as she fell.
“1 saw one shoe go flying
into the air after the impact,”
Schwartz said.
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“Gas prices will continue
go up this year no matter win
he said.
Loveless said gas prit
always go up during the sunn
because gas stations arerequiiei
by the federal government toils
a lower emission gas,
costs more to produce.
“It’s an urban myth t
prices go up during the:
because of increased travel,an
that’s just not the case,” he sail
“People travel just as muchdu
ing the summer as theydol
rest of the year.”
Warren Mclver, invente
manager for H&M Wholes!
which distributes Shell
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area, said the amount of fuelfc
tributed has not dropped!
gas prices have increased.
“People still need to
around, and they need fuel top
on the road,” he said.
Mclver said he doesn
diet any drastic changes in ik
amount of fuel distribute!
because of favorable trends u
fuel consumption.
Loveless said the amount
gas consumed is not going i
change.
“Bottom line is that
are buying the same amountol
gas as they always have,”
said. “They are also griping just Jj" an
as much as they always hav e f or
when prices go up.” Som
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As part of the exchange, fivesti-
dents from Texas 4-H Clubi
spend part of June and
Greece, said Dan James,
Club specialist in charged
international programs.
Sixteen-year-old Manolc
Karakousis said he wants to bet
fanner mainly because he likesil
and secondly, because he want!
to help Greece be less dependen;
on other countries for its food.
“In Greece we import a lota
things,” he said, “I don’t like tin
I want to support my country
Konstantoulakis said wta
he returns to Greece that lie
going to tell his friends about
the tall buildings he saw.
Eighteen-year-old Geori
Poursaitidis said he was awed
the “big, fast cars” in Texas,
The students said they
amazed by the sodas tht
served at American restauraui
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impressed that they were
and came with free refills.
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big,” he said.
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