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Voters take ACTION, hush VOICE’S bid
By Amy Edwards
and Lee Rood
Senior Reporters__
ACTION candidates Jeff Petersen,
Nate Geisert and Kim Beavers and
their campaign manager walked into
the Cherry Hut, 424 W. Dawes Ave.,
Wednesday night wearing grim
looks.
Tre Brashear, campaign manager,
turned to more than 150 supporters,
let out a sigh and said, “You guys are
looking at the new leaders of ASUN.”
Party executives had heard the
news a few minutes earlier from a
phone booth a half a block away.
Supporters, who were originally
shocked, began to throw beer, cheer
and applaud the newly-elected
officers of the Association of
Students of the University of
Nebraska.
Petersen and Geisert, elected
president and first vice president, won
the election with 53 percent of the
vote. Beavers, second vice president,
won 55 percent of the vote.
At the VOICE party headquarters,
1952 Washington St., about 150
people sal on the edge of their seats,
jumping at the sound of the phone
ringing.
Christopher Stream, VOICE
presidential candidate, hung up the
phone and said “Well, that’s
interesting.”
Stream told the supporters and
„ candidates that they did the best they
could, and thanked them for their
time and effort.
“But that doesn’t mean we still
can’t have fun,” Stream said.
Stream and Andrew Wupper, first
vice presidential candidate, had 40
percent of the vote. Steven
Showalter, second vice presidential
candidate, had 38 percent.
Supporters for both ACTION and
VOICE said they expected the race to
be close.
Petersen said he believed Brashear
and about 120 ACTION supporters
made the difference in his party’s
victory.
“We had the people with hard
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Jeff Petersen and Kim Beavers celebrate ACTION’S
win in the ASUN election.
Michelle Ardis, a VOICE supporter, embraces VOICE
presidential candidate Christopher Stream.
work and dedication . . . they are
incredible and we couldn’t have done
it without them,” he said.
Petersen said now that the
campaign is done, which he called
“dirty and vicious,” he can continue
with the real work.
Petersen said he thanked the
originators of the VOICE party and
its three executive candidates because
they “brought out some problems in
the system,” but said he didn’t agree
with how they went about their
campaign.
“But no matter how bad the
criticism got, no matter how hard
people attacked us, we were
determined to make this place an even
better university than it is now,” he
said.
Beavers told ACTION supporters
that Wednesday was the happiest day
of her life.
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“I was shocked,” she said of her 55
percent of the votes, “but I was
excited too, because I worked my butt
off for ASUN and I can’t wait to
start.”
ACTION and VOICE candidates
said they were tired after the long
campaign. But Petersen said he was
rejuvenated with the news of his
victory.
Stream said when he woke up
Wednesday morning the first thing he
thought about was how much work he
and the VOICE party members had
left to do.
Stream said he knew there were
some pretty big odds against the
party, but the campaign was a good
one, even though ACTION won.
“I think we are one of the first
organized parties that said what we
believed and what we thought,”
Stream said. “We had a dream for
what ASUN could be. Unfortunately
it ended in a dream.”
Stream said he hoped the people
who ran for senate with the VOICE
party gotelected, because the senators
will make a difference.
“Now I can go back to becoming a
normal college student,” he said.
Showalter said VOICE was the
first “real party” to openly criticize
the system and propose resolutions
for the problems in ASUN.
He said he thinks students are now
more aware of the flaws in ASUN and
will make the executives more
accountable to their constituents.
Wupper said he thinks student
apathy decreased because ol
VOICE’S campaign. He said the goal
of the party was to get people
involved.
Statistics from the ASUN office
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showed voter turnout decreased trom
15.6 percent last year to 13.14 percent
turnout of eligible voters.
But Wupper said he thought more
people should have made up their
minds because of the issues than
because of their friends.
“I don’t see a bright future for
ASUN next year,” he said.
A black coffin sat on the porch of
the VOICE headquarters.
Before the results were
announced, Ramona Frazer, VOICE
candidate for the Committee for Fees
Allocation, said the coffin would be
used to “bury the old ASUN.”
Following the loss, Frazer said the
coffin still had meaning.
“We might be the ones that are
buried,” she said, “but they’re
(ACTION) not going to rest in
peace.”
Electoral commission reviews complaints, expects more
By Mary Nell Westbrook
Senior Reporter
The electoral commission will
wait until it gets more information
before any action will be taken on
alleged violations that occurred
Wednesday during election day of
the Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska.
The commission reviewed
complaints about both the ACTION
and VOICE parties.
Greg Dynek.a VOICE supporter,
was accused of campaigning door-to
door in Pound Hall. But the
commission wanted to hear from the
students who accused him of such
action.
“I went to four separate rooms to
talk to people, all of which I knew,”
Dynek said. He said he didn’t con
sider the “campaigning door-to
door.”
Campaigning is not allowed door
to-door or in lobbies of residence
halls. This is a residence hall rule, not
an ASUN rule, but the commission
would uphold the rule regardless,
said Ned Hedges, faculty adviser to
the commission.
Another alleged violation was that
ACTION flyers were dispersed
throughout the East Union. ASUN
rules state there shall be no
campaigning inside a polling
building or within 50 feet of the
building.
The commission said these
allegations and similar violations
were not as serious as the complaint
involving a personal advertisement
in the Daily Nebraskan.
This ad ran in the DN Wednesday:
“Chris Stream, Andrew Wupper,
Steve Showalter for VOICE. Let’s
get three Kappa Sigmas in there and
rule the school. Love, your Kappa
Sigma brothers.”
VOICE party supporters said
neither they nor anyone in the Kappa
Sigma house placed the ad. Dynck
said it was put in to make the VOICE
party look bad.
Shawn Boldt, ASUN second vice
president, said he expects many more
complaints of violations to be filed
before the election and its aftermath
dies down.
Complaints will be taken until
noon Monday.
Penalties are usually reductions in
a parly’s spending limit, but by the
time the election’s are over, the fines
would have almost no effect, Hedges
said.
Last year the violations off-set
each other to the point where the
commission decided “fair play is fair
play and to hell with it,” Hedges said.
I Regents to vote on department name change
By Bob Nelson
Senior Editor
The University of Nebraska Board of
Regents will vote Saturday on a proposal to
reorganize the University of Nebraska-Lin
coln department of computer science into the
department of computer science and engi
neering.
Roy Keller, chairman of the department,
said the proposal for a department of computer
science and engineering is mostly a name
change to reflect the evolving mission of the
computer science department.
Keller said the department is expanding its
computer engineering program to better edu
cate the designers and builders of computers.
“We should be developing these courses,”
Keller said. “This is called innovation and
change.”
The structure of the department will not
change if the regents approve the proposal.
The department has always offered degrees in
both the arts and sciences college and the
engineering and technology college, he said.
The addition of the word engineering to the
department name also letter clarifies that the
department offers two programs, he said.
Stanley Liberty, dean of the College ot
Engineering and Technology, said the proposal
is just one step in achain of improvements in the
computer science department.
He said the inclusion of engineering in the
department name wiH better reflect the budget
ary responsibilities of the engineering college
in the computer science programs.
On Saturday, the regents will also discuss
these other items:
• Vote on an agreement with the Nebraska
State Historical Society Foundation to lease
Lewis-Syford House, 700 N. 16th St., for a
period of 20 years beginning April 1. After
approval ana leasiDimy stuaies, me lowis
Syford House would provide space for the
Office of Pre-Admission Activities.
The Slate Historical Society Foundation has
an established endowment for upkeep of the
house. Investment income in excess of the cost
of property insurance will be available to the
university to finance maintenance and im
provements to the premises.
• Vote to approve the Clark Encrsen Part
ners firm to design the installation of air
conditioning equipment and a passenger eleva
tor in Selleck Quadrangle. The board voted
Feb. 13 to approve the need statement for the
renovations.
