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Eclipse party wins
in RHA election
oy June ouDczyK
Staff Reporter
After receiving 54 percent of the
vote, the Eclipse party won the RHA
presidential election Tuesday night.
The Beetles
party received 38
percent of the
vote, and the re
maining 8 percent
went to write-in
ouAcfiSiAn. candidates.
RHA Elections Philip Cilliers,
who was elected for the presidency,
said he was excited about winning.
“I’m ecstatic,” Cilliers said. “We 1
worked hard and we won.”
Cilliers said he and his running i
mate, Eric Vander Woude, wanted to :
begin anew in RHA by making it a
more visible organization at UNL. i
“We want to promote the resi-1
dence halls more,” he said. “Tradi- ’
tionally, RHA doesn’t have that big 1
of an involvement, and we want to
get more people involved.”
Eclipse also will work to change
some residence hall policies, Cilliers ;
said. Changing the open-flame policy
was the most important priority, he
said.
“We will meet with Housing to
work to change the open-flame policy
to satisfy both students and the ad
ministration,” Cilliers said.
Creating more outdoor basketball
courts, making additional meal plans
and creating a debit card system for
the snack bars are other ideas on the
“Traditionally, RHA
doesn't have that big of
an involvement, and we
want to get more people
involved."
■
PHILIP CILLIERS
RHA president
Eclipse platform, he said.
Jeremy Vetter, presidential candi
iate for the Beetles, said he wasn’t
surprised by his party’s loss.
“I wasn’t sure at all how it would
:ome out,” Vetter said. “I expected it
o go either way because we had no
vay of knowing how the residents
vould vote.”
Vetter said he was disappointed
vith the loss, but now he would have
nore time to be involved in other
ictivities on campus.
Chad Pekron ran as Vetter’s vice
^residential candidate. Pekron and
Zander Woude ran on the same ticket
in the March 8 A SUN elections.
Though the opposing party won,
Vetter said he had hope for the future
[)f RHA.
“Cilliers is the most experienced
person in the organization,” Vetter
said. “Both him and Eric are ener
getic and have potential.”
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County Election Commissioner.
She said 3D normally had the low
est turnout of any precinct in a city
election.
“I can’t really blame students,”
Hansen said. “They aren’t going to
be interested in local issues, espe
cially if they aren’t going to be mak
ing their homes here.”
Hansen said she predicted a 15
percent turnout for Tuesday’s elec
tion. After 3 p.m. returns, she said,
Lincoln was on course for a 14 per
cent turnout, or about 15,000 voters.
Ballot issues included an unop
posed race for mayor, two Lincoln
school board primaries, a primary for
airport authority, two city charter
issues, a school bond issue and a city
council primary where both candi
dates will advance to the general
election regardless of the vote.
Robert Sittig, a UNL political sci
ence professor,
said students were normally apathetic
about voting, but because Tuesday’s
elections were not of much interest to
students, their voting would prob
ably be extremely low.
“There’s a shameful lack of con
tests,” Sittig said.
He said if there were a large num
ber of well-financed candidates, there
might be more interest in the city and
among students.
com wens, di, ana uoemann,4y,
voted by absentee ballot Monday.
Gross didn’t vote; he said he had a
flat tire.
“The issues don’t impact students,”
Gross said.
That first voter at precinct 3D
Tuesday wasn’t a student. And as the
day crept along, precinct 3D didn’t
see another voter until just after 1
p.m., and he, also, wasn’t a student.
Wells passed the time reading a
book on cub scouts, Goemann wrote
letters and Gross studied for his his
tory of economic thought class.
Around 3:30 p.m., they got one —
a student. Anne Hjersman, a junior
journalism major who lives in
Neihardt Hall.
Hjersman said it was appalling
that no other student living on cam
pus voted in the election.
“I knew our age group was ill
represented in elections, but I didn’t
realize it was that bad,” she said.
Hjersman voted because she was
covering the election results for The
Lincoln Star.
“I thought it would be cheap of me
to do a story on the primary turnout
and to have not turned out myself,”
Hjersman said.
