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Choice wins 3 of 4 seats
on RHA executive hoard
■ The Zealous party’s
Aja Bowling is voted in as
secretary.
By Bernard Vogelsang
Staff writer
The party that wants to involve
more students living in residence
halls the choice to get involved in
their government won three of the
four executive board positions
Wednesday in the Residence Hall
Association election.
Choice candidate Jadd Stevens,
current RHA Student Action Team
chairman and a junior English and
biology major, won the race for RHA
president for the 1999-2000 academ
ic year.
Stevens said his party’s campaign
priority, getting students involved,
also will be his goal as president.
Stevens succeeds Shane Perkins,
who has been RHA president since
December.
Choice took 55 percent of the
votes, leaving opposition party
Zealous 44 percent of the vote. The
final 1 percent went to write-ins.
Running alongside Stevens on the
Choice ticket was vice president
elect Liz Ormsby, a freshman piano
performance major.
Choice candidate Jason Ball, cur
rent Pound Hall treasurer and a junior
management information systems,
received 50 percent of the vote, win
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rung the RHA treasurer position over
Zealous candidate Andrew Bayer, a
junior chemical engineering major,
who got 48 percent.
As expected, Aja Bowling, a
freshman biochemistry major, and
Zealous candidate, is the new RHA
secretary. The Choice party didn’t
have a secretary candidate. Bowling
got 96 percent of the votes.
Dave Bums, Zealous presidential
candidate and current speaker of the
RHA Senate, said he won’t return to
RHA after his loss.
Bums, a sophomore environmen
tal science and communications
major, said he is going to focus on his
positions in NU Directions and the
Campus Recreation Advisory
Council.
Losing the Zealous vice presiden
tial candidacy, Mike Buckneberg, a
junior finance and management
major, said he doesn’t know at this
moment if he wants to become an
RHA senator.
“I need time to think about it,” he
said.
It was the second time this year
that both Burns and Buckneberg
unsuccessfully ran in an election.
They also tried without success to
become Association of Students of
the University of Nebraska senators
on March 3.
A total of 633 residence hall stu
dents, or 13 percent of the possible
total voters, cast their ballots. This
was a lower turnout than last year’s
election, in which 1,051 students
voted.
RHA Election Commissioner
Kristy Jacobberger said a reason for
the lower turnout could be that in each
individual residence complex, often
only one candidate ran for a spot.
“When only one student is run
ning, less students are likely to vote,”
she said.
Jacobberger said the election was
held without any problems. ^
“I haven’t heard any complaints
from the local election commission
ers,” she said.
Last year, a runoff was necessary
because Abel and Sandoz Halls ran
out of ballots.
Ormsby said as vice president she
is going to lead the RHA Senate
meetings in a smooth, enthusiastic
and positive manner.
Along with getting more students
involved in government, Choice party
goals also include addressing prob
lems that face students who live in
residence halls such as special-inter
est floors, honors halls and parking.
Ball said he also is going to
update the RHA Web site so the RHA
officers could better communicate
with local governments, officers and
students.
“I will try to get RHA into the
digital age.”
Jacobberger could not provide a
list late Wednesday night of winning
candidates in individual residence
halls.
Man critically injured
while crossing street
From staff reports
A pedestrian was critically
injured while crossing 10th Street on
Wednesday afternoon after a pickup
truck hit him.
David Green, 32, was in the
crosswalk on the south side of the P
Street intersection at 2:37 p.m. when
the pickup truck hit, propelling
Green into P Street traffic, Lincoln
Police Capt. A1 Soukup said.
Green and two eastbound cars
were crossing 10th Street with the
light when the accident happened.
Witnesses told police the truck’s
driver, 16-year-old Jeremy Andersen
of Bellevue, ran the red light on 10th
Street.
After Green was hit, he was pro
pelled in front of a car in the south
ernmost lane, driven by Mary Baker,
57, of Lincoln.
Baker then swerved to her left,
hitting the car in the next lane, which
was driven by Larry Robinson, 47.
After the accident, Green was
taken to BryanLGH Medical Center
West, where he remained in critical
condition Wednesday night.
There were no other injuries,
though all three cars were damaged:
the truck sustained $750 damage,
Baker’s car $2,000 damage and
Robinson’s car $800 damage.
No citations were issued at the
scene of the accident, though police
will continue to investigate.
Man lays penis on counter
while cashing check
A Lincoln man was arrested for
indecent exposure Monday after he
laid his penis on the counter at an
Express Money outlet during the
transaction.
The 21-year-old man came into
the Express Money store, 105 S. 9th
St., around 6 p.m. and gave the teller "a
check to cash, Lincoln Police Officer
Kathy Finnell said.
The 20-year-old female teller
noticed the man was rubbing his
crotch through his clothing.
While she was processing his
check, the 6-foot-tall man stood on his
tip-toes and placed his semi-erect
penis on the counter.
The teller ignored the penis, gave
the man his money and he left the
store.
She told police he stood outside
the window rubbing his crotch and
watching her.
Police jailed the man for indecent
exposure.
Lincoln police find drugs,
guns at residence
The Lincoln/Lancaster County
Narcotics task force netted an assort
ment of drugs, cash and a gun with a
search warrant Tuesday.
Officers served the warrant at an
apartment on the 2400 block of Vine
Street at 8:15 p.m., Finnell said.
A 21-year-old man was arrested
after police found $ 1,588, .5 grams of
crack-cocaine, 5.5 grams of marijua
na, a scale and a Colt .45-caliber
handgun, stolen in December.
The man was charged with pos
session of crack-cocaine and posses
sion of a controlled substance with the
intent to deliver. Additional charges
could be filed by the county attorney
when the suspect is arraigned.
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Admitting he initially had a hard
time accepting that he would have to
work with his former opponents,
Brown said he had a lot of prejudices
and stereotypes about working with
the other party.
But Brown said former president
Sara Russell and former first vice pres
ident Kelly Hoffschneider turned out
to be what he called “two of the most
extraordinary individuals.”
He encouraged the new senate to
look past preconceived ideas they may
have about their co-senators and exec
utives.
Meuret said she was excited to exe
cute the ideas Focus campaigned for
earlier this year. She also said she was
looking forward to working with the
new senate.
“More than anything I’m looking
forward to working with the group of
people I’ve worked for over the last
couple of months.”
Schuerman, who took the oath of
student body president and student
regent at the ceremony, stated one of
his main goals for his term.
Serving on student government
since he was in junior high,
Schuerman said he has often been
accused of being a politician.
Being described with a word that
typically has negative connotations,
Schuerman said he wanted to bring
some positive connotations to the word
by working hard, representing all of his
constituents and taking into account a
wide variety of opinions and ideas.
Along with installing the new
members of ASUN, two awards were
given during Wednesday’s ceremony.
The Laura Cockson Memorial
Scholarship, which was given for the
first time this year to honor a UNL stu
dent killed last April by a drunken dri
ver, was given to Chris Linder, a senior
management major.
The Cockson family was present to
present Linder with the award, who
was recognized for promoting alcohol
awareness and responsible drinking on
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I hope we can have
as productive year
as we did the year.”
James Griesen
vice chancellor for student affairs
UN Us campus.
Eva Cockson, Lafura Cockson’s
mother, said giving the first award to
Linder was special because Linder and
Cockson were friends and lived on the
same floor their freshman year.
Linder talked about her and
Cockson’s friendship after she was
presented the award.
“Laura was a good friend of mine
during our freshman year when we
lived on the same floor,” Linder said.
“We had a lot of the same values and
stayed up for a lot of late nights.”
The newly revised Outstanding
Educator award was also presented
during the inauguration.
The winner, Sheila Kepler, profes
sor and experiential leadership coordi
nator was one of five nominees elected
by the student body during the ASUN
elections.
Students were asked to identify an
outstanding professor from a class
containing more than 60 students and
fewer than 60 students for the first
time.
The five finalists were then inter
viewed by an ASUN committee.
The other finalists were chemistry
Professor Bill McLaughlin, astronomy
and physics Professor Martin Gaskell,
biology Professor Russ Benedict and
agronomy Professor Robert Sorenson.
Kepler, who will have a book
donated in her name from the universi
ty bookstore to Love Library, said she
was honored by the distinction.
“Part of my goal as a teacher is to
touch students,” Kepler said. “Its obvi
ously been a two-way process because
I’ve been touched very deeply.”
