The Famuan: October 2, 1986
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The Famuan October 3, 1996 The Voice of Florida A&M University - Tallahassee, Fla. Vol. 84 -No. 5 Low turnout plagues elections Elections BY STEPHANIE ARNOLD Carole Griffin 44.2 percent Bill Sutton 55.8 percent Staff Writer Superintendent of Schools Aprvl Granger expected to wait on hold in a long line when she voted in the Leon County runoff. Circuit Judge 2 But she didn't. The line wa, Democratic Ballot Ka'lhieer Dekker. 5.4.2 percent almost nonexistent when she cast her bal- U. S. House, District 2 Ed Rude. 26.4 percent lot Tuesday in Leon County Precinct 3. Anita Davs, 47.8 pert Marva Davis, 19.3 percent until located in the Grand Ballroom. Allen E-.vd, 52.2 percent County Judge Seat 2 "I was expecting to stand in a State Representative District 7 Caron n .ecce. 20.1 percent David Wamrner 42.0 percent JudithIia,.vkins. 19.5 percent long line and wait a long time." said the Dean Morphonics, 17.0 percent 21-year-old Jamey Wes.tbrook 58 0 percent business graduate student.' County Commissioner, District 1 Tim Harley. 15.5 percent Tuesday just knew' that our polls would be tilled Bil Proctr.60.3 percent' Landy Marren 12.0 percent with people." Curtis Richardson, 39.7 percent Augustus Akens 6.8 percent Laurie Jones, office assistant at County Commissioner, District 2 Richard Davidson 5.1 percent Lucksy Oshc 2 4 percent the elections supervisor's office in Sean Pitrtnancc418. prc'en't Jane Sa's. 51 9 pecent Belinda Nei a'-5 percnet Tallahassee, said that out of 136.175 rei.- Equipment School Board, District 2 County Judge Seat 3 tered voters in Leon County. 31.02 perent Connie Evans, 48.6 percent Don Mvodes t' 27.8 percent or 42,240 people voted. Tom Young, 51.4 percent Virginia Da r.21.9 percent Out of 1,674 voters, there wser School Board, Distract 3 Cire D'urr.'-rin. 12.1 percent deficiency 165 people who voted out of precinct 3 Wylie J.Dassie 33.4 percent Clinton McLeoud. 9.3 percent Ben Poitevent_ 9.1 percent Eighty-six people voted out of precinct 7. Maggie . Lewis. 66.7 percent Superintendent of Schools Gene Ta,, 'or. .6 percent the poll near FSU's campus. There are Ricnarc M-ric.' 36.7 percent C~aude W a~k.r 8.2 percen is to blame Jll: reci'.tered v oters. in that prcmict B i Mcnztorc 633percent, Craig W ils. 7 percent Republican Ballot BY DORY KNIGHT Representative in Congress. District 2 >denotes FAMU Alumni Correspondent FAMU students will have to wait a fews more day's to elect their peers into office. _ , . - - w , f Runoff elections for class offices. attendants and senators scheduled for today have been postponed until Tues.day because the equipment needed to hold the elections won't be available. "WVe don't have our own equip- ment." said El'Tanya Hadley, student government association electoral com- missioner. The office of the supervisor of elections allows FAMUl to use equip- ment such as privacy booths and ballot counters, as well as the help ot person- nel from the elections office tree of charge. This office also prints and sometimes counts ballots. But, due to the tact that this is an elections year. FAMU. has limited access to these resources and was asked to condense the number ot elections held this semester, said H-adlev. This also prevents the use ot precincts that began last semester. "'We're the only school in the state Famuar MAIYA OLDHAM The university system that doesn't have its FAMU's Rattlerettes rally to score against the Troy State University owvn equipment," she said. "I feel like Trojans Sept. 24. FAMU lost 15-3, 15-6, 15-10. the university should be able to invest money' into this." But these aren't the only' changes the elections are going through. During Billy Joe: We need to remain focused for Hampton the Sept. 24 elections, candidates for freshman class president were left off BY DEBRA 0. WILLIAMS the seriousness of preparing for threat to the rattler deten',. the ballot. Hadley said voting for the Staff Writer Hampton. Jenkins has 11Icatches for 191 yards position was postponed due to the error. Hampton was considered to be a and good run atter catch (RA.C.) ability Joe is more con- Please see SGA/ 9 FAM U.'s head coach, Billy)JJoe said prime title contender in the preseason. but right now Coach catch the ball and he is concerned about this week' 'sgame How ev'er the team saw its title hopes cerned that Jenkins against the 2-2 Hampton Pirates. plunge with league losses to How'ard (26- make something happen. He's The Rattlers (3-1) had an em,notional 7) and North Carolina ABET (24-20). "He's an outstanding receiver. All-American candidate. and it we 21-20 victory against Howard. and Joe Hampton's defense is lead by an to sit back in that said that after an emotional vict tory the Darrell F-ly the. He is the MEAC leader allow the quarterback INSIDE in a rocking chair - and team will most likely be "flat assa pan- with 66 tackles alter tour games. pocket- to Jenkins we're going to be in cake" for the next game. "He's a real fine football player. deliver "We're going to have our harinds full He's all over the field, very tough to serious trouble." Joe said. -- m mmm 0 -- . vl0 Hampton's biggest weakness lies in thisigsm coming id. "I'm block. He's strong and has great maneu- hnstaweekend," Joehn sai moriumfla rMM0.0 will get verability." Joe said. "We're going to their quarterback position. outstanding quarterback their attention and keep them fociused." have to assign two people to block him if "Their so they're playing tmusical That something was an eatllx 6 one person can't do it" graduated, chairs with that position." Joe said. a.m.- meeting Tuesday emph hasizing Coach Joe said that Hampton's receiver, Mike Jenkins. is the biggest A7- I NEWS AND INFORMATION FROM YO STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION Lecture Series FSA Update Last weekend SGA President Eugene Waiters, along withheStudent o bbi he HDepartmentattended the ;rsity Florida Student Association at the ussed: MAN MARCH of NorthTentative Florida. The0Lei0000 following was disc IfILLION of Student 7 Vice Chancellor Due Process tion Restructuring posi Academic Advisement rm SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: Capital Improvement Trust Fund Ref For TMoreMInfoCoSA "LongLive the Spirit of the ition Mlan 9tarcf" w41 Parking: Time's Up!ll October is here and the new FAMU ytyr 4;:i !z~iS' parking regulations are now in effect. Students, starting now YOU must do everything in your power to obey the / is no other " traffic parking laws. There Y X way toward finding a solution to the problem. USE THE NEW PARKING LOTS. There are two new parking lots, one on Martin Luther King St. and one on the corner of Wahnish and Gamble, that hold overUSE 300 THEnew parking VENOM spaces. EXPRESS. Register to Vote by Octobi VEMoM Expres sooShutl Sevcs up and running!l Cicl There are two bus routes available for FAMU stu ents'fulCr e free transportation around the campus from various parking lots. AVOID PARKING FINESIII Ticket fines, decal prices,, and parking penalties are now more extremethanever. It is up to you to use . our resources so that there will be no reason to enforce . any punishments.- iz" Parking is not the problem. We are the poroblem. Fix The Problem. e, ~ctstbcae, 8 y th FAMU Su~nSenteFAMU Parking Go Figur The Famuan/ October 3,1996 3 NCM votes to approve Bookstore doing all it can to serve, uniform standards for female athletes but you can shop for a better deal BY COLLEGE PRESS SERVICE There'll be no more bare midriffs for female track and field athletes. The NCAA has voted on a new uni- form standard that prevents female ath- BY DERRICK MORGAN time,";' she said. "It takes 10 days for the publisher to letes from wearing stomach-revealing Correspondent Diane Johnson, the bookstore's text- get books packed and shipped while pro- two piece outfits. The ban will start with book manager, said prices are dictated by fessors continue moving with class and the 1997 fall season. FAMU students are hit hard during the individual book publisher. tests," Johnson said. "The bookstore takes The NCAA rules committee, made the first week of class when their text- Rick Authur, a junior electrical engi- a lot of abuse because of what goes on up of 25 men and women, banned the book expenses are tallied up. A student neering student, said book prices are around the campus." popular uniforms for all divisions taking 12 to 15 credit hours can be "ridiculous." Morgan said not only is spending because of difficulty affixing competi- expected to spend anywhere from $100 to "(The bookstore) is making money large amounts of money on books upset- tion numbers which must be worn on an $250 on books and off of college ting, selling the books back is even worse. athlete's front, back or side. class-related materi- students who "When you sell the book back, you "It was very hard to attach these als. "Students drag don't have any don't get 50 percent and then the book- numbers when there was no material to Each semester, money," he said. store turns around and sells the book for attach them to," explains Lauren late textbooks and their feet and don't Authur said more.