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No portion of this magaune may be reproduced without prior written permission from REPORTER. APRIL 22. 1994 3 EorroR-iN-CHiEF Gary R. Peters editorial at all? Wouldn't it have been better to have The Invisible used that space to announce polling-times and places? None of these questions would Election be of any significance if the voter participa• tion had been more substantial and the elec• MANAGING EDITOR Student Government (SG) held its annual tion had not been such a close one. The first Christine Koenig elections this past week. Although I realize pair to enter the election, Ralph Gaboury and Ken Rosenthal received a total of 146 EXECUTIVE EDITOR this may not be news to some of you, I can• Kathleen M. Cole not help wondering how many knew that the votes. The opposition, Vincent Donowski election even occurred. SG did publicize the and Adam Kirkpatrick received 133 votes. It OmcE MANAGER campaign, but were the dozen or so copy size might seem rather presumptuous to say that Holly Wilcox flyers that I saw posted around campus the election results were swayed by SG's stu• dent spotlight ad, but when the election is ART DIRECTORS enough to solicit a decent response from the Robert N. Wescott • Josh Klenert student body? On the basis of this year's decided on the basis of a mere 12 votes, is voter turnout, I would have to say the answer that hypothesis so far fetched? I would have DESIGNERS is an emphatic no. to say no. Nate Amone, Kerri Carubia Less than 2% of the eligible voters on Another student spotlight ad ran, the day PRODUCTION MANAGER campus actually cast ballots last week. That following the election. This ad spotlighted Maria Rosoni means that out of an approximate 15,000 Vincent Donowski and his accomplishments voters, less than 350 voted. Some might in SG. Was this a last-ditch effort to try to ASSOCIATE EDITORS blame the numbers on a genuine lack of save face? Probably not, but it did make SG's Aimec Zakrewski, SPORTS poor decision to run the previous week's ad Kerstin Gunter, CULTURE interest in SG in general, but if that is true, Victor Cardoso, NEWS perhaps SG needs to publicize themselves glaringly more apparent. I do not want to Brandy Davis, FEATURES and their activities even more throughout the question the outcome of the election or year. I am not saying that SG is unsuccessful cheaf>en the win for Gaboury and Rosenthal, WRITERS but maybe the methods that SG uses to pub• Mark Natale, JefFGambles in all of their endeavors. Bringing the licize itself and its events (like elections) need Matt McNamara, Krissy Bush Reverend Jesse Jackson to speak on campus Clarissa Cummings, Emma S. J. Walker is a great example of one of their recent suc• some fine-tuning. Lately SG has displayed a Victor Cardosa, Alfred Penn cesses. The real issue is the lack of student definite interest in becoming more physically Kelly Bombard, Bryant Grahm involvement during the recent polling. This visible and available to the student popula• Sean Aiyai, Aileen Pagan was a very important election. The winner tion, but perhaps their problem is one of exposure rather than location. PRODUCTION STAFF will through the next year serve as a repre• Matt Southard, Natcha Van Gelder, sentative of the views and concerns of the Trisha Kagcy entire student population at RIT (or in this case at least 2% of the population). ILLUSTRATORS Edward M JC. Cox, Larry Conrow, At the beginning of this election, only Jeremy Sniatcki, Gil Merritt one set of candidates submitted a petition by SG's deadline. At a later date, SG decided it DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY would be better to allow a second pair to run. Erik Mathy This was not a necessarily a bad decision, as PHOTO EDITOR long as SG was able to get out the informa• Victoria Arocho tion about the election. Whether they were Gary Peters successful is largely a matter of opinion. Editor In Chief PHOTOGRAPHERS There was certainly a bit of controversy sur• Julie Henderson, Max Schulte Arny Wood, Rick Cindair rounding SG's decision to buy a student Aris Eiconomopoulos spotlight ad in REPORTER for one of the Alyssa Scheinson, Dave Carson candidates the week preceding the election. Craig Ambrosio Though there may not have been malice in this indiscretion, it docs display a certain Distribution Staff Jeff Jakobowski, Matt Sicvcnpipcr amount of bad decision-making. Purportedly, both presidential candidates ADVISOR were given the opportunity to plug them• Dr. Elaine Spaull selves, but only one provided the necessary information by SG's ad deadline. If that was indeed the case, why then did SG run the ad 4 REPORTER VOL.75 NO. 12 pool tables in the game room to coin-operat• ed tables, maybe as part of the new renova• the 10th frame tions. This idea, quite frankly, is less than acceptable for two reasons. One, it is almost impossible to teach students how to play As IF SlX-DmSION BASEBALL STANDINGS the cafeteria and dinner in the Ritz on those and football on FOX aren't bad enough, long class days. But, before you pool on a coin-operated table. If another blow to the sports world is happen• go frolicking in the streets, you have to keep plugging in ing this summer right here at RIT. You may be forewarned that TDS quarters, just to retrieve a not have heard about if, this is happening is a long ways down i.^M_MMMMMi stray nine-ball, the subtly, slowly, and, unlike the sport itself, the road, with a lot process becomes with very little noise. This summer, after 26 of financial, and ^ slow and tedious. years of use, the RIT Bowling Center is spatial obstacles Two, most of the being taken out. In its place, the game room to overcome. To pool games I'm is going to be moved into that space and the eventually have familiar with Ritskellar will be expanding (into the current a meal plan at are also impos• game room). You may be thinking, "What the Ritz and the sible to play on Bowling Center?" It's true that the school cafeteria is a coin-operat- never advertised the lanes that much; I had "almost a natur• L-d table, been in the game room in the SAU basement al," says Gary "vpically they're three or four times before I even noticed they Gasper, "but this smaller than a were there. And that's no small feat, hiding a side of campus can't regulation table. bowling alley. handle the 2,500 stu• And if you sink the It's nothing spectacular. Even now after dents in the resident wrong ball and need two years of renovations which included new halls for lunch. 1 wish it to bring it back out on paint, new pins, and a new sound system, wasn't this way, but in order to the table, tough toodles, fork there are still just eight lanes, a few quirky serve more people for lunch time, over some more quarters.