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It's Official: McKissick Ticket to Lead Senate in 'O3-'O4
Adam Lerner
Staff Writer
. Floyd McKissick's ticket became
the official winner of the Community
Senate election when the elections
committee announced early this
week that it had rejected the Zach
Smith ticket's appeal.
. Following the decision, McKissick
voiced optimism about the year
ahead.
"With the relationship I have with
many administrators," McKissick said,
"I feel like I can build a bridge be
tween students and the administra
tion."
Smith complained to the com
mittee after the polls closed last Tues
day He alleged that McKissick's ticket
had engaged in campaigning in
Founders Hall and had distributed
mass e-mails.
The first allegation was ruled to
be unfounded because, according to
senate election rules, no candidate
may campaign "in the vicinity of
Founders Hall" while voting is taking
place. The elections committee re-
War on Iraq
Katie Elliott
Staff Writer
POW Rescued
Nineteen-year-old Pfc. Jessica
Lynch was rescued from the Saddam
Hospital compound in Nasiriya, Iraq,
late Tuesday night. She and 14 other
members of the 507 th Ordnance
Maintenance Company were seized
on March 23, when their convoy took
a wrong turn and were ambushed
by an Iraqi force.
Five members of the team are
classified as prisoners, two confirmed
dead, and eight (including Private
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jected the charge because it could
not determine where "in the vicinity
of Founders Hall" referred to.
The allegation pertaining to the
mass e-mail distribution was "a slight
violation" in the eyes of the commit
tee, according to an e-mail sent by
elections committee chair Steven
Wheeler to all candidates on the rival
tickets. Though still a violation, the e
mail was hardly massive, being dis
tributed to approximately six students,
and was not significant enough, in the
committee's judgement, to under
mine the McKissick ticket's 13- vote
lead.
Three neutral community mem
bers (students Doug Watts and Katie
Abney and Career Development Cen
ter Director Irene Harrington) joined
the elections committee to determine
what actions to take. Previously, the
election had been overseen by Steven
Wheeler, the current chair of the In
ter-Club Council.
This is not the first year in which
Senate elections have come under
scrutiny.
"I've been here since the fall of
Persists Despite International Concerns
Lynch) were classified as missing in
action. During the raid, the American
forces found 11 bodies, some of whom
officials say might be U.S. servicemen.
Critics
Denounced as
Undermining Iraqi
War Effort
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld and Gen. Richard B. Myers,
the nation's highest-ranking military
officer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, rejected criticism last Tues
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1991 and I don't remember an un
contested election," Harrington said.
"It seems to me that there's some
controversy every year. All of it doesn't
reach the appeals process, but there
are always innuendos that something
improper was done or somebody
didn't follow some rule, or what have
day of the war against Iraq, calling
such complaints misinformed and
harmful to the troops.
Myers attacked the partly anony
mous critics, saying the criticisms are
"absolutely wrong, they bear no re
semblance to the truth, and it's just
harmful to our troops that are out
there fighting very bravely, very cou-
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Volume 89, Issue 20
you."
Both sides exhibited a concilia
tory tone following the appeal hear
ing. .
"We think we can still do what we
wanted to do - we can still inform stu
dents," said Savannah Turner, vice
presidential candidate of the Smith
ticket.
rageously."
One critic is retired General Barry
McCaffrey, who led a mechanized in
fantry division during the 1991 Per
sian Gulf war.
He said of Rumsfeld that he re
sented "the
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