serving the students of the University of North Carolina at Asheville,
Volume 2, Number 10
Thursday, April 7, 1983
SGA run-off elections contested
Student Sharon Nichols casts her ballot for student government officers.
Staff photo by Carol Whitener
(JNCA’s newest frat
gets its own habitat
By Leigh Kelley
It is now official. On March 26,
UNCA’s Pi Lambda Phi fraternity
received its charter and is now the
North Carolina Zeta Alpha Chapter
of the organization.
“I’m absolutely thrilled about it,”
said Kennedy Queen, the
fraternity’s president.
During the ceremonial banquet
held at The Ceddts in Henderson
ville, R Lambda Phi National Presi
dent Steve Peskin presented the
fraternity their charter.
George Beck, executive direc
tor of the national organization,
presented the 18-member chapter
with an engraved gavel of the frater
nity.
North Carolina Omega Zeta
Chapter representative from
Western Carolina University, Tracy
Wyatt, presented the new chapter
By Elise Henshaw
Presidential candidate, Ken Cagle,
who received the majority of the
votes in last week’s student govern
ment elections told the Kaleidoscope
on Friday that he planned to contest
the runoff scheduled for April 6.
Cagle said that he will contest on
the grounds that the guidelines be
ing used to call for the runoff have
no validity. He said, “They are
guidelines only, were never passed
and are not legal.
The item in question is number
four in a list of guidelines that the
Judicial Board issued in January of
1980. It reads, “To avoid un
necessary runoffs between executive
candidates (i.e. President and Vice-
president), the second place can
didate must attain 60% plus one
votes of the total amassed by the
first place candidate.
Mike Dombrowski, top vote-
getter in the vice-presidential race,
who also faces a runoff, said he wiU
back Cagle in contesting the runoff.
Dombrowski said, “In any democra
tic election, the candidate with the
clear majority of the votes is the
winner. 'The premise in these guide
lines is that you can only have a
runoff if there isn’t a simple majori
ty.”
Cagle received 199 votes and his
opponent Mike Hagarty received
150. In the vice-presidential race,
Dombrowski had 199 votes, Kris
Robinson, 106; and Kevin Ashby,
53. These results give both Cagle
and Dombrowski simple majorities.
In the other races in last week’s
election, the Senior Senators are:
Elizabeth Mary Tait with 33 votes;
Mark DelPezzo, 31; and Thomas
Reynolds, 31. Ann Flynn received
29 votes.
Junior Senators are Lynn Fontana
with 51 votes and Alson Lloyd
Goode with 21. The Sophomore
Senator is Fran Randall who re
ceived 51 votes, and the Dorm
Senator is Danny Young with 85
votes.
Editor’s Note; The judicial board
of UNCA Student Government
Association met Tuesday night
after Kaleidoscope deadline and
decided Ken Cagle is the new SGA
president and Mike Dombrowski is
the new vice president.
The reasons for the decision are
that both winning candidates
received a simple majority of the
votes, and it was not a multi
candidate election. Complete elec
tion details in next week’s
Kaleidoscope.
with a large symbolic pledge paddle
and a giant presidential gavel with
the names of the chapter officers
engraved.
Bob O’Leary, chapter con.sultant,
awarded each fraternity brother i
membership certificate, as well as a
Pi Lambda Phi pin.
UNCA’s Pi Lambda Phi chapter is
one of three in North Carolina,
Queen said. The other two are at
WCU and UNC-Chapel HiU, he said.
“It takes approximately a year to
get a charter, sometimes as much as
two years,” Queen said. “We’ve sur
prised a lot of people by getting ours
in only about three months.”
The Pi Lambda Phi fraternity also
quickly acquired a house.
Tony Skipper, director of Pi
Lambda Phi housing, said the frater
nity signed a lease March 31. “It’s
now ofiiciEklly ours. We’ve leased it
for 14 months. ’The two stpry house
UNCA’s newest fraternity. Pi Lambda Phi, signed a lease for a house on
March 31. The house, at 43 Edgewood Rd., will serve as the fraternity’s
central meeting place. Staff photo by Carol Whitener
is at 43 Edgewood Road,” Skipper
said.
“What really helped us to get the
house was a loan from the national
fraternity. We were the first
chapter of Pi Lambda Phi ever to be
granted a loan while we were in debt.
When we started in the fall we just
didn’t have the money,” he said.
Pi Lambda Phi Vice President
Tom Moore said the house will have
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