• I OLD AND LACK Volume 72 No. 4 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem North Carolina Friday, September 23, 1988 Election Shows Students Favor Bush, Fills Student Government Positions By Jennie Vaughn Blake, 155 votes. Old Gold and Black Reporter SG President Mike Smith said, "The number of freshmen running for all the student government posi• The official results are in: if Wake Forest students tions shows that that class is a motivated and excited had their way, Republican George Bush would be in one. I'm looking forward to the leadership they'll offer." the White House for the next four years. The remaining votes for freshman Honor Council Of the 1,692 students who voted in the mock were: Sydney Nightingale, 118; Helen McWhorter, 114; presidential election Tuesday, 64. 9 percent selected the H.H. Hancock, 109; Heather Hambry, 108; Dale Ear• George Bush/Dan Quayle ticket. The remaining 35.l nhardt, 80; Scott Kyles, 74; Meredith Leathers, 64; percent cast their ballots for Michael Dukakis and his Mardell Burke, 60; James Coley, 59; Michael Crockett, running mate, Lloyd Bentsen. Voters were asked, "If 52; Jonathon Hartness, 51; Cathryn Kotz.an, 50; Valerie the presidential election were held today, for whom Hardison, 47; Marcia Burton, 46; John Hunter, 39; would you vote?" Chris Taylor, 38; and Cindy Allison, 35. The presidential poll was part of the student govern• New student trustees Steve Perricone, with 401 stu• ment election. The freshmen elected three Honor dent votes under his belt; Kent Griffin, with 377; and Council members. The entire student body chose three Melissa Gwyn, with 280 votes, will be interviewed by student trustees. Seventy-three members of the student the Student Life Committee today. legislature, selected by their dorms, also were ushered Amy Peacock received 211 votes and 192 were cast Brandon Hill into office. In additional to voting for student government positions, student participated in a mock presidential for Mike McKinley. election when they went to the polls Tuesday. The results showed that the majority of students favored The freshman member of the Student Budget Ad• Five residents of Babcock Dormitory were chosen the Bush/Quayle ticket. visory Committee was not elected until a run-off was in a tight legislature race. Tiffani Wedington received held yesterday because no candidate received a ma• 111 votes; Ley Chaffin, 96; Jessica Fleming and Jen• with 93, Babetta Fleming with 91 and Kristen Bargeron Kathryn Ferraro, with 113 votes; Nick Mantia, 104; jority of votes. Lori Cunningham took the run-off elec• nifer Smith, 89 apiece; and Michelle Fournier, ff!. grabbed the fourth Bostwick seat with 85 votes. Other Drew Dixon, 98; Darin Hill, 89; Doug Douds, 86; tion with 50 votes. Megan O'Brien received 47 votes. I Others running were Allison Coffey, with 79 votes, and candidates in the race included Denise Conway, receiv• Rob Burrus, 82; and Timothy Miller, 74. Other names Twenty freshmen were on the ballot for Honor Coun• Jean Sutton, with 78. ing 69 votes; Christa Tyson, 66; Jill Herron, 59; and on the ballot were Paul Osowski, 65; Chris Winfree, cil. David Upchurch won his chair with votes. The Z74 Freshman Amy Wolfe was the top vote-getter in Kim Dennis, 51. 59; and Scot!_ lf.allgren, 57. other winners were Mike Baron, 177 votes, and Hunter Bostwick Hall with 100 votes. Laurie Troost followed Davis Dorm has seven respresentatives in legislature: See Elections, Page 4 Debate Leaves No North Campus Parking Provost Wilson By Michael McKinley Assistant News Editor To Change Role With the influx of media, debate officials and VIPs in the Wait By Anita Killebrew Chapel area, security officials are as efficiently. telling students to find parking Old Gold and Black Reporter "The position he has held has elsewhere on campus. been most important for the The parking and traffic pro• Edwin G. Wilson, university pro• academic life and academic direc• cedures were drawn Tuesday in a vost since 1967, will be changing tion of Wake Forest," Mullen said. meeting of university, Winston• his administrative duties soon. "[This transition] is a very pro• Salem and Forsyth County law en• Wilson will retain his position as found way to add to the legacy he forcement officers and U.S. Secret provost, but a new vice president is leaving at Wake Forest," he said. Service agents. for academic affairs will be hired Wilson will be involved with the The measures will "ensure the to assume the academic and ad• program and planning committee, security of the presidential can• ministrative responsibilities of the Mullen said. He will be making didates and a manageable traffic office. long-term decisions about the flow on campus," said Robert Wilson represents one of the ad• future of Wake Forest, which is a Prince, director of university ministration's last links to the old "most significant task," Mullen security. campus at said. 0 News Media Vehic1es (t.ors 11 & ~ 2~ Wake Forest. "Provost Wilson has played a role Beginning at 10 a.m. Sunday, Ill Handicapped Parking (Loi 10) "In one of prominence, and no one could cars will be checked on Wake {SJ VIP Park1~11 (lot 1) Gill Deb:Jte StAff ParkJrig (Lots 4 imd 9: sense, Iam the Forest and Polo roads. The envision any person who could step ~ AT&T. Genera! Adrnis!.:ion Tici<"et Hc''C~·s last member of University Parkway and Faculty Pa•kl"9 into his shoes," said Howell Smith, the executive Drive entrances will close. chairman of the history depart• council to have Other checkpoints within the ment. Smith commends Wilson's campus, whose locations will not actually been a "personal and informal manage• student or be released for security reasons, ment style." taught on the "My happiest memories all have will also begin operating then, allowed on campus. to move their cars from the lots apartments. old campus." Wilson to do with people: teachers, Prince said. Students will not be At 10 p.m., normal traffic pat• behind the chapel, next to the ten• Students will be able to park in Wilson said. students. very close friends in the allowed past some checkpoints, terns will resume. nis center and the watertower and all lots on south campus, me Wilson has been a member of the faculty and administration," Wilson said Andrea Freeman, director of Pedestrian traffic near the all lots adjacent to the houses on business school lot, the day stu• Wake Forest community for 37 said. "I've enjoyed it all and feel media relations. chapel will be routed around the the Quad. The lot along Wake dent lot off Faculty Drive, the lot years. He graduated from Wake fortunate to have been here." The main entrance at Reynolda side near Poteat House. Forest Road next to the watertower behind Winston Hall and Faculty Forest College with a B.A. in Wilson's relations with Wake Road will be the only entrance to Students are being asked to w111 have to be cleared for the can• Drive along the north curb from English in 1943. After receiving his Forest have endeared him to facul• the campus Sunday after 10 a.m. begin moving their cars this after• didates' motorcades, she said. Wake Forest Road until it dead A. M. and doctoral degrees from ty, administration and students At 6 p.m. only persons with noon so that all lots on the north Students also will not be allowed ends, just short of University Harvard University, Wilson return• alike. "He made time to deal with campus identification or a driver's side of campus will be free Satur• to park along Faculty Drive from Parkway, ed to Wake Forest in 1951 to join the students he taught;' Smith said. license with a street address within day and Sunday. Wake Forest Road to Polo Drive, All overflow student parking its English department. Wilson has been an administrator the checkpoint parameters will be Freeman said students will have in front of the student and faculty will be routed onto Davis field. In 1957, Wilson was named assis• with "a style many people have a tant dean of the college. He has great love of," Smith said. "It is been an English professor since hard for an institution growing as Candidate Files Majority of World Population 1959. He was promoted to dean of fast as Wake Forest to have ti~ the college in 1960 and was nam• for its top managers to hand-crat\ ed the university's first provost in their teaching," he said. Federal Lawsuit To Watch Presidential Debate 1967. Wilson "epitomized the values of Wilson was awarded the Wake Forest" and "represented By Kelly Greene Presidential Debates, said he does not know honorary degree of Doctor of Let• many people from the Wake Forest News Editor if the Soviet Union will broadcast the ters from the University of North community," Smith said. "We will To Block Debate debate, but "Voice of America" radio will Carolina at Greensboro in 19ffl. miss having a romanticist in By Michael McKinley Reduce the world population by 20 per• make it available across the globe. Wilson said his change in duties management." Assistant News Editor cent, and you'll have a rough estimate of About 2,000 media personnel, including "is logical, and I want it to occur. Heam referred to Wilson as "Mr. how many people will be watching the technicians, attached to almost 500 news It is a pleasant transition." Wake Forest" in the faculty meeting Independent presidential candidate Lenora debate, quipped NBC media pool producer organizations should be here by Sunday He will retain his membership on Tuesday, at which Wilson's new Fulani filed a lawsuit in U.S.