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News February 24, 2000 5 from Elections, page 1 Disappointment filled the air of the lounge as current SGA Ex ecutive President Akilah Weaver. Only a fraction of disappointment came from candidates who lost their desired positions. More than 3 offices were un opposed and there are still 19 posi tions left open. Available positions include senior class president, se nior class secretary/treasurer, se nior class senators, junior class vice president, junior class secretary/ treasurer and junior class senators. Positions are also available for stu dents on the Academic Council and the Judicial Hearing Board. Out of a student body of ap proximately 3,800 people, only 612 students cast their vote at the elec tion table in Moseley on Monday and Tuesday this week. With less than one-fourth of Elon students turning out to vote, SGA victors were left to worry about student apathy and the population that they speak for. “I wish more students came out to vote. I don’t know if they didn’t know about the election, if they didn’t want to vote or if they just didn’t care,” Weaver said. “And if they didn’t care they can’t complain. They had a chance to express themselves and use their voices and they didn’t take it,” she went on to say. Elections for open offices and board positions will be held on March 7 in the lobby of Moseley Center. Packets are currently avail able in the SGA Office (Moseley Center 231) for students wanting to run in that race. For more informa tion about running please call ext. 2333. The run-off election for Ex ecutive Vice-President and voting on more new amendments will be held at the same time. “I encourage students to come out and vote at this second election. This is their chance to act,” Weaver said. Church in the backyard! That’s what Celebration is^ Every Sunday, 10:30am, Moseley Practically in your backyard! sponsored by Antioch Community Church Most Elon College Students... m C0 desiructi Elon College Position Statement on Alcohol: Elon's position on the use of alcohol is not one of prohibition but one of education and accountability. While we observe the law, our primary appeal to students who choose to drink is that they will make conscious and low-risk choices that do not diminish their success and the success of others. Of Us This is part of an advertising campaign to inform Elon College students about consuming alcohol in moderation. UNCC Students Push For Name Change Jon Goldberg Knight-Ridder Tribune CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Mike Holdenrid is sick of sports announcers and outsiders confus ing his school with UNC Chapel Hill or calling it NC Charlotte or UNCC Charlotte. He and hundreds of other stu dents are suggesting a solution: Change UNC Charlotte to Univer sity of Charlotte. “Some people think we’re even a community college,” said Holdenrid, who was raised in Char lotte and is president of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. “It’s really frustrat ing.” The name change idea has bobbed around the campus for years, but never before has a student group carried it so far. Delta Sig members collected more than 1,000 signatures from students supporting the name change this month. At the Feb. 26 homecoming basketball game against Tulane, they plan to wear green T-shirts reading “ U n i - versity of Charlotte” while scream ing from their courtside seats. The group’s members arc also reaching out to alumni, who they feel they need to win the fight. Fra ternity members plan to man home coming booths about the issue. They’ve also set up message boards on Internet sites to get the word out. UNCC officials haven’t discussed the issue and are not pur suing it, said Jack Claiborne, the university’s public relations direc tor. He said students will facc a long, tough battle. “We have more than 65.000 alumni who have diplomas saying University of North Caro lina at Charlotte. Let’s just say it will be a very controversial issue,” Claiborne said. The UNCC Board of Trustees, UNC Board of Governors and N.C. General Assembly all would have to approve the change. This isn’t the first time UNC system schools have rallied around a name change. In 1991, some UNC Chapel Hill leaders lobbied to drop the Chapel Hill from the school’s name. They wanted to be called Univer sity of North Carolina, as the school was known until 1963. Then-bas- ketball coach Dean Smith and the alumni association favored the move, but the idea didn’t win ap proval after chancellors of other UNC system schools complained. In the mid-1990s, officials at the school then known as Pembroke State University fought for and won permission to become UNC Pem broke. They wanted the school’s name to more clearly reflect its UNC affiliation. Ken Carpenter, a 1978 UNCC graduate who is co-president of the Triad-area alumni association, wor ries that the students’ drive sends the opposite message from Pem broke - that the school doesn’t want to be part of the UNC system. Though he doesn’t object to the possibility of a name change, he’s not sure University of Char lotte is the right fit. He’d want to keep UNC in the name. “That’s part of our identity,” said Carpenter, a team manager at Wachovia Bank in Winston-Salem. “I want a name that doesn’t sound like we’re seceding from the union.' COLLEGE NIGHT Every Tuesday 10 p.m.-2 a.m. Featuring DJ White Chocolate 3165 Garden Road from 102 JAMZ In the Walmart Karaoke every Thurs. and Sat. 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