Meredith Herald
Volume IX, Issue 4
September 16, 1992
Raleigh, North Carolina
• Emmet J. Roe, owner of the
Hiunlet chicken-processing plant
where 25 people died in a fire last
year, pleaded guilty to involun
tary manslaughter Monday. Roe
was sentenced 19 years in prison.
• Chapel Hill town Council
Member Roosevelt Wilkerson re
signed Monday night after he ad
mitted to forging the mayor’s sig
nature on a letter concerning fed
eral funding for low income hous
ing development for the elderly.
• President Bush offered Mon
day to debate Bill Clinton if the
Democrats accept the same terms
asl988: two debates with three
panelists asking questions. Clinton
has not agreed, but is considering
a proposal for debate by the bipar
tisan Commission of Presidential
Debates.
• An auto safety group said
Monday that fuel tanks in some
General Motors trucks are vulner
able to fires or explosions in side-
impact crashes. The Center for
Auto Safety estimated that more
than 300 people have died in side-
crash fires in GM trucks since
1973. There are about 5 million of
these trucks on the road.
• USA Today celebrates its
10th birthday this week.
• In the American League
West, the Oakland A’s beat the
Minnesota Twins. The A’s ex
tended their winning streak to six.
In the AL East, Toronto leads Bal
timore by four.
• Beating Houston Sunday,
the Atlanta Braves stretched their
win streak to nine to lead the Na
tional League West by 10 1/2
games. In the East, Pittsburgh
leads.
Run-offs dominate freshmen elections
by Kate Stewart
Freshman class elections were
held Monday, Sept. 14. About 45
people ran for postions that were
available in 11 offices.
As of Monday night, most of
the electoral races were not final as
mn-offs had to be arranged in seven
races, including Class President,
Vice President, Treasurer, Senate,
Cornhukin’ Co-Chairs, Honor
Council, and Class Marshalls.
The run-offs are as follows:
president: Allison Carroll and Hope
Murdock; vice president: Amber
Routten and Shani Seidel; treasurer:
Shannon Brittain and Inga Lanier;
Senate: Morgan Dalrymple, Julie
Honeycutt, Christian Hunt, Melanie
Keel, and Carmen Prevette; Com-
huskin’ Co-Chairs: Shelly Barwick
and Erin May; Georgette McGill
and Starlotte Smith; Honor Council
: Leah Bumgarner, Marcie Davis,
Shauna March, Tonya McGee, and
Mindi Outlaw; and Class Marshalls:
Scottie Eustis, Sara Maultsby, and
Jemxifer Robeson.
In the Senate, Honor Council,
and Class Marshall races there was
only one postion (instead of two)
left as of run-off time. Nikki Palmer
wonone of the postions in the Honor
Council, and Amy Johnson won a
postion in the Senate. Emily Brown
recieved enough support to gain a
postion as a Class Marshall.
As for the races that were de
cided on Monday, Mary Pulley won
Class Secretary, and Amy Dunn won
Class Historian. Dana Stephenson
ran unopposed in her bid for Stunt
Co-Chair as did both Diep Tran and
Jan Yow in their bids for the Elec
tions Board.
Election speeches were given
on Monday morning during Insight
101. Due to the amount of people
who were running, speeches were
photo by Tracey Rawls
Hope Murdock delivers her campaign
speech to classmates.
only given by those vying for Presi
dent, Vice President, Secretary, Trea
surer and Historian.
The four candidates for class
president were Allison Carroll, June
Holland, Hope Murdock , Laurie
Pelletier, and Perri Sutton.
Allison Carroll had the audience
yell a few times while she emphasized
“We, Awesome, Friendship, Allison”
throughout her whole speech. June
Holland had balloons floating around
in the crowd while she stressed that “
A good leader not only gets the job
done but works well with others.”
Hope Murdock appealled to the audi
ence by stating “I’m no different than
you.” Lori Pelletier stressed commit
ment and doing things for the right
reasons while also saying “We are the
class of 1996 and it’s time to show
what we can do here at Meredith.”
Perri Sutton wrapped up the speeches
for Class President by saying “1 can be
all of the president that you want me to
be.”
The five candidates for vice
president were Elizabeth Beale,
Veronica Ingram, Amber Routten,
Freshman
Elections '92
photo by Tracey Rawls
Allison Carroll speaks to the Class of
■96.
Shani Seidel, and Heather Shook.
Elizabeth Beale performed a dance
to open her speech and then pro
ceeded to stress that "Being vice presi
dent of this class would be a great
challenge for me and I would like to
meet that challenge.” Veronica
Ingram stated that she believed in
class input, and she also said that “I
believe that I can get the job done.”
Amber Routten spoke about her lead
ership roles in the past, and she also
said that “ I've learned the value of
time as well as patience. As your vice
president, I would like to make this
experience a memory.” Shani Siedel
spoke about dealing with people and
having fun as a class. “ I think that we
can really grow as a class,” Siedel
See ELECTIONS, page seven