MO LIMITS Conference
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Nebraska East Campus Union 3rd Floor, UNL East Campus
March 3-4, 2000
Free and open to the public
Feminist Visioning: Re-Imagining, Re-Creating, and Re-Telling
Larry Kirkwood, 11:45 a.m. -1:45 p.m. March 3 “Beauty as a Relative
Concept”
Nomy Lamm, 9:00-10:15 a.m. March 4 “New Directions for the
Feminist Movement”
_For more information, call 472-9392_
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Aquila Theatre
Company
Distinguished company
breathes new life into
theatre classics.
Homer’s The Iliad
Monday & Wednesday
March 6 & 8, 8pm
Johnny Carson Theater
' Shakespeare’s
King Lear
Tuesday March 7, 8pm
Kimball Hall
A Heartland Arts Fund Program
supported by the National
Endowment for the .Arts and the
Nebraska Arts Council
Lied Center for Performing Arts
Lincoln, NE
Tickets: 472-4747 or
1-800-432-3231
Box Office: 11 :00am-5:30pm M-F
_ Website: www.unl.edu/lied/
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A-TEAM FIRST VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate Riley Peterson, left, and presidential candidate Joel Schafer react to
the ASUN election results. Peterson and Schafer celebrated their berth in the upcoming run-off election but
expressed disappointment at the defeat of their fellow candidate Joel Webber in his ran for second vice president.
Empower, A-Team face a run-off
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Empower for the run-off.
The reactions came after the
Electoral Commission tallied the
votes to find out Empower was suc
cessful in gaining 34.01 percent of
the vote - .9 percent away from a vic
tory.
ASUN Electoral Commission
rules state that a party must win by at
least 10 percent.
The A-Team presidential ticket
garnered 24.92 percent of the student
vote - just enough to force a run-off
between the two parties.
The run-off, which is the second
one in as many years, will take place
next Wednesday.
In the second vice presidential
race, Impact candidate Amy Ellis
managed just enough votes to force a
run-off with Empower candidate
Mike Butterfield.
Butterfield won 34.26 percent to
Ellis’ 24.7 percent.
“Wow, I can’t believe we were
only .9 percent away - even with four
parties,” Cecily Rometo, Empower
first vice presidential candidate, said.
“I’m excited to run with A-Team.
“It raises the stakes.”
After learning the results, Schafer
said he was excited to go into a run
off election with the Empower party.
“This is exactly what we wanted,”
he said.
The Impact party garnered 23
percent in the presidential and first
vice-presidential race.
Duff received 16.9 percent. In the
second vice presidential race, it
received 18 percent.
The results were bittersweet for
Schafer and Peterson, after finding
out second vice presidential candi
date Joel Webber was eliminated
from the race after receiving 22 per
cent of the vote.
“I feel really bad about Joel,”
Schafer said. “He’s a dear, dear
friend.”
Webber said the excitement of his
running mates made up for his disap
pointment.
“Two weeks ago, we never
expected this to be where it is today,”
he said.
The reaction came after weeks of
debates, campaigning and going
door-to-door to gain support for
Wednesday’s election.
Wednesday night, both parties
said they were ready to do it all over
again.
Schafer said he and Peterson
would rely on their media campaign
to get their ideas across to more stu
dents over the next week.
He also said the party would
make contact with more students to
try to get them involved in next
week’s elections.
“We’re getting on the phone,”
Schafer said. “The people we got out
to vote this time are the people who
had to be motivated to come to vote.”
Schafer said he wanted to get
more of those students out for next
week’s run-off.
Mello said he would try to round
up every vote possible.
“Next week, all we can do is get
people out there to vote,” he said. “A
run-off two years in a row - that’s
amazing.”
Even though A-Team trailed in
Wednesday’s election, Peterson said,
ite wasn’t worried about how he and
Schafer would fare next week.
“I think we have as good a chance
as there is,” Peterson said. “I feel
good about it.”
Butterfield felt the same about
the Empower party’s chances.
“Hopefully, we’ll see the same
thing next week,” Butterfield said.
Ellis, Butterfield set for another showdown
By Katie Mueting
and Sara Salkela
Staff writers
The second vice presidential can
didates for Impact and Empower will
compete again in Wednesday’s run
off.
Amy Ellis’ party, Impact, has no
other candidates in the run-off.
But Empower’s presidential candi
date, Heath Mello, and first vice pres
idential candidate, Cecily Rometo, are
running against A-Team’s presidential
candidate, Joel Schafer, and first vice
presidential candidate Riley Peterson.
Ellis said she could do a better job
than Empower’s second vice presiden
tial candidate, Mike Butterfield.
“I have the ability to do so much
more with this office than Mike
Butterfield would ever have,” Ellis
said.
Butterfield said he has faith in his
party’s overall chance at winning.
“We’re almost there,” Butterfield
said. “I’m happy we got the percent
age we did, and hopefully we’ll see the
same thing next week.”
As a current ASUN senator, Ellis
has seen what has gone wrong in the
past, and she knows what needs to
happen next year, she said.
“I’m not the traditional, go-with
the-flow candidate everyone thinks I
am,” Ellis said. “I am the person that,
when the status quo needs to be chal
lenged, I can do it tactfully and so that
results are seen.”
John Conley, Impact’s presidential
candidate, told Impact supporters at
PO Pears, 322 S. Ninth St., on
Wednesday night, that their work was
not finished.
“We still have a second vice presi
dent who needs our support to get into
office,” Conley said.
Despite his loss, Brad Bangs,
Impact’s first vice presidential candi
date, said he is not finished wearing
his Impact T-shirt.
Butterfield not only has the sup
port of campaigning with his party, he
also has his parents alongside him.
Butterfield’s mom, Pat
Butterfield, sat with the rest of
Empower’s supporters last night at
Main Street Cafe wearing her
Empower T-shirt.
“It’s all a pretty awesome experi
ence for everybody,” Pat Butterfield
said. “I’m impressed with the whole
process and with the ASUN candi
dates.
“I’m also awfully proud of my
son.”
