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Him: Ummiri:r& September 14, 2000 On The Web 3 f"r Vol. CXVII, No. CE www.wooster.eduvoice America'sOIOldest Weekly College Newspaper Most women do not want to be liberated from their essential Nine candidates DQ'd natures as women. turnout was also the highest in James Allardice recent memory. Michael Vice -in- -Chief . former Editor Browne '01 received enough President Dan Quayle CX With the highest voter turnout votes to be elected, but was dis- in recent memory, SGA's hopes qualified after one poster was of a smooth election were dashed left in the mail room on Tuesday with the disqualification of nine morning. senate candidates on Tuesday. "It's a load of b.s.," Browne Security prepares for Nine candidates failed to remove said. "The rules they made were campaign signs from Lowry and so vague they could be manipu- Planned Parenthood Kittredge before midnight on lated any way they wanted them President. Monday night, in violation of the to be." Browne would have been --page 3 election guidelines, and were dis- elected had his poster been L JiiL qualified Tuesday night after the removed Monday night "One Christinia Evans '01 and Assistant photo by James Allardice votes were counted. poster won't change the number Dean of Students for Black Student Affairs LaTashia Reedus "The fact remains there were of votes I got" Browne said. participate in the panel discussion Monday in Lowry. rules and they did not follow "My biggest assertion is the them," SGA Parliamentarian manner in which the election Kresge sticks it to jilt- Daren Batke '02 said. Several was conducted," Zakir Thaver disqualified students and newly '01 said. Thaver was not dis- C.O.W. debates race ed Senators. elected Senators joined qualified, but was not elected. " -- Kathryn Bayer same stuff ... so we are all the page 5 Wednesday in calling for a re- "The rule should have taken State Writer same," she said. Evans ended her election. affect the moment people were The College of Wooster's speech with the message she saw . "This, election was a farce," in violation. By waiting; it sends "Town Meeting on Race" was on a bumper "If you're Senator Prateek Sangal 03 said. a signal that they are waiting to sticker held Monday evening. - A large not outraged, then you're not "The students are not represented see what the results are before crowd accumulated in the Lowry paying attention." at all in the process. It's like the deciding to disqualify the candi- : Center lounge to participate in Peterson then presented some I'll iinvi&: cabinet is deciding who should be dates," he said. this associated event of the comments on the dynamics of elected, and depriving the stu- "The students' voting power is Wooster Forum 2000, which race and racism in a global con- The virgin and the dents of that right Candidates being mocked by this cabinet" revolved around the theme, "The "The next phase of the bat- notified that Sangal said. "My concern is not text veteran: two perspec- should have been Meaning a Democratic candidates broke the of tle against racism must take place morning, when SGA President that the - on .- tives the fain Culture." . in the battle against whiteness ... Erik McLaughlin '01 found the rules, but that the no one was page 6 Panel members included and must take place on a person- posters still up. To have students told they were disqualified until Christina Evans '01; Dean of al, institutional and global scale. vote for people who they already after the election, and so their Students for Black Student To begin the task of abolishing know are disqualified isn't fair to votes have been discounted." Affairs LaTashia Reedus; whiteness is a step on the road to anyone. Those students wasted ", When candidates -- picked up Alphine Jefferson, a member of unmasking, confronting and theft votes," he said. petitions, attached was a list of the History Department who finally overcoming the inequality The . SGA cabinet did not election guidelines. Number served as the moderator; and that plague our society and our decide to disqualify the candi- seven on the list said that posters Wooster prepares for Charles Peterson, a member of world," he said. dates until after the polls had must be down by 11:59 p.m. on Blessid experience. the Black Studies Department Williams stepped up to the closed on Tuesday evening the evening prior to the election page 9 Hetrick was the first panelist to microphone first to say, "I think because there was "no way a in both Lowry Center and speak, posing the question, "Are to expect students to provide meeting could be called before Kittredge. we doing an adequate job of pro- leadership is inappropriate ... the then," .McLaughlin said. ; This election also marked the moting diversity?" She listed the leaders of the school have to take "There is no need for an emer- first time in recent memory that percentages of minorities attend- that responsibility. 1 think that as gency meeting," SGA Director of a "concentrated" group of inter- ing the College of Wooster and a faculty we are not committed to Publicity Elise Pilorget 01 said. national students ran for the SGA revealed that 3.3 percent of the making sure diversity happens. Lost in the controversy surround- Senate. "In the past SGA has been population is African-America- n, We need to be committed to ing the disqualified candidates blind to the international commu- Men's soccer blazes out .7 percent Latino, .5 percent diversity." was the record-settin- g number of nity," Bhalla said. "We wanted our of the gates. Asian and .2 percent American One student then asked the candidates who were on the ballots. voice to be heard and we worked -- 12 Indian. panel members, "How do you page The 45 candidates marked the together to get elected," he said. Evans spoke of her experiences decipher between at least the past highest number in in Philadelphia, saying, "People four years. The 38 percent voter (See SGA elections page 2) are people, we are all made of the (See Town Meeting, page 2) . 1 VI i v -Editor; Xaura Nesler Assistant editor: Alex Pries House residents raise questions ' nethj r-C- E Alex Pries Nao',:i . Assistant News Editor ctorofl I Life:? With the shifts in residential life This v Ys (" ; as Cc ex!! 1 addi-- c , .t i faculty and policy this year, the saw c.scuss.oii v. t . 1 - small house idea has been the nir! 2 retreat as v. .. a J i - - cv:.i- : the :-- i - focus of some uncertainty and per- fmittee cssisr.rr.e: raJ a j aan- tat I n f-- C ,s from haps confusion. According to ise of ir.forrr.atlori cr.J . -- ... "I sup- - presi- for Cour.c :i ca Love is Ageless program r-- " opportunities '. r tae year dent Kat Randall '01, individuals results of last year's I". ... who serve as volunteer program mi - ELidsky, Craig and Associates . 1 i KjLki tail. g stu-Jy- . contacts are now treated as though i ... Ions-ter- m plan:-'e- e . Greek 1 x .1- - . Council . ir f.Tarcis Ik. .'. they are RAs. .' C ' -- te t tmue'j She said, "They Dept. of '01 sa-es- J tl.at last year's f..'! : year's Housing are trying to make the plannir: retreat ie rere:.:: J l - . .' -- i t.a:ipus, volunteer contacts act like RAs." year. Council i ." kers e ; ' secon- s chair commented that the depart- poskive -- k. ee' ; j She ( i f:ek cr-at-La-- kl ee k have ment of housing is trying to make d-year ? ' . Ane!y I small house life just like dorm l j'. .'a 'C2's ccrrert, "I ae theirJ ' .ncilrep- - life, which she feels will not work. tk it was reaky y -- ve. I : Darren I "At the end of each semester, I t:.. ; t it wa.s a f: will be critiqued in the same man- s:aa. j T.nenbaum by Keri Haddeland ner as an RA but they've had the Eieht residents of Calcei House, Photo Faculty Ik herself a J camera. year, J training for dealing with certain which is located on College Ave., posefor the Garrett T!c: ; last y :z. New situations and I haven't They Fhilosr-rk- C.;.. I and continue to challenge students to ( .' kaadent'2 haven't explained what the conse- stressful ... it gives me a chance to eckoirj tea r cca- - ' "give a damn-- " as the Wooster ia '. r will I quences are or what the evalua- relax.". ments a : a.it tae 1. 2a ci a I'.y motto reads. rly Society program con- Vblunteer Network's ri-.-- held I tions are even for," Randall said.