VOLUME 115, ISSUE 152
See pg. 9 for more election
coverage.
RAYNOR WINS IN LANDSLIDE
STUDENT BODY
PRESIDENT:
J.J. Raynor
® 3,267 votes
52 percent
WINNER
Logan Liles
1,601 votes
26 percent
Kristin Hill
1,403 votes
22 percent
Gets 52 percent;
no SBP runoff
BY ELISABETH GILBERT
STAFF WRITER
Flanked by the large entourage
that helped propel her to victory,
J.J. Raynor emerged Tuesday night
with a resounding victory in the
student body president race, gar
nering 52 percent of the vote.
Raynor beat out fellow candi
dates Kristin Hill and Logan Liles.
They earned 22 percent and 26
percent of the vote, respectively. A
candidate must receive a majority
of votes to avoid a runoff election.
“Wow, I'm just so proud of
everyone. You guys are so awe
some,” Raynor told the mob of
staffers embracing her just after
the winners were announced.
“I would never have expected
this,” she said. “I’m an athlete. One
of my superstitions is you always
have to think you're losing ... or
you won't fight hard enough.”
Raynor said it was difficult for
her team to gauge students' reac
tions to their messages during the
campaign but explained her victo
ry, saying, “I think at the end of the
day, hard work speaks for itself."
Amid evening plans of partying
and submitting financial state
ments, Raynor who will take
office April 1 celebrated her
victory but also started to focus
on the more distant future.
Within minutes of the
announcement, she had formed
plans for a meeting with cur
rent Student Body President
Eve Carson and said she plans to
work with the two other candi
dates to implement parts of their
platforms.
She also said she wants to work
SEE RAYNOR, PAGE 9
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Cindy
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Andrew
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5,420
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Michael
Miller
3,172
votes
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Junior J,J|, Raynor celebrates in Carroll Hall with Michael Hutson afterjiearing she won Tuesday's election for student body president. Supporters Joe Levin-Manning and Lindsay Guge
cheer behind her. The Charlotte native pulled in 52 percent of the ballots with 3,267 votes, beating out fellow candidates Logan Liles and Kristin Hill. She will take office April 1.
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Kristin Hill (left) and Logan Liles react to the election results Tuesday
night in Carroll. They earned 22 percent and 26 percent, respectively.
Shelly, Gurel take
senior class race
BY MEGHAN PRICHARD
STAFF WRITER
After securing a victory with 52
percent of voters, James Shelly and
Pinar Gurel the two candidates
that appealed to the social aspect
of senior year will be next year's
senior class officers.
"At the end of the day, we real
ized that newspapers and forums
don’t win elections," Shelly said.
“It's reaching out to Joe Senior and
getting him to vote."
Immediately after results were
announced. Shelly and Gurel shook
hands with their competitors.
They defeated two other pairs of
senior class officer hopefuls Josh
Criscoe and Megan Compton, and
Rachel Moss and Stephen Barber.
Both pairs received 24 percent
of the remaining votes.
“1 felt like we did as much as we
SEE SENIOR CLASS. PAGE 9
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FATAL SHOOTING
Police charged William Albert
Stroud, 27, with first-degree
murder after the Tuesday shoot
ing of Marshall Ralph Brown, 51,
in the Northside neighborhood.
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CAMPUS ELECTIONS
VOTING RESULTS: 6,625 cast ballots
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SENIOR CLASS
PRESIDENT
RESULTS:
James Shelly
-and Pinar Gurel
867 votes
52 percent
WINNER
□ Josh Criscoe and
Megan Compton
407 votes
24 percent
Rachel Moss and
□ Stephen Barber
394 votes
24 percent
HI
BOE lets Duke students vote
Rules Robertsons may vote for SBP
BY KATE SULLIVAN
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
When Kristin Hill sent out an e
mail TUesday encouraging her fel
low Robertson Scholars to vote for
her in UNC’s election, some Duke
students were invited to pick UNCs
next student body president
But the issue of whether Duke
students who spend one semester
at UNC because they are Robertson
Scholars should be permitted to
vote in UNC’s election is one that
the Board of Elections has never
Students pass all referendums
BY MEGHAN PRICHARD, SWF WRITER
In addition to the arrival of anew student body
president J.J. Raynor student government
will see several changes to the Student Code after
Tuesday’s ejection.
Students voted in favor of all proposed amendments
and for an increase in the safety and security fee. Now
students will have the power to vote by referendum on all
student fee increases, instead of leaving it up to Student
Congress, solely.
Selection committee
clarification
3,510 votes
□LI 72 percent
Amendment: To specify a
provision in the Student Code.
What it means: The
amendment will make it so the
Speaker of Congress will sit in place
of the finance chairman on the
committee that selects the student
body treasurer instead of appointing
any student representative.
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The men's basketball team
defeated Virginia 75-74 Tuesday
night in Charlottesville, Va. Tyler
Hansbrough led the team in
scoring with 23 points.
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had to deal with before.
“In the past they have been
allowed to vote," said Mitchell
Capriglione, chairman of the elec
tions board. “As long as you have a
PID and Onyen, you are allowed to
vote in any campus election.”
But Title VI of the Student Code,
outlining elections rules, stipulates
that “all duly registered fee-paying
students shall be eligible to v ote in
student government elections." It
does not mention a PID or Onyen.
While Duke Robertson Scholars
The Daily Tar Heel exclusion
sf 3,408 votes
□Li 61 percent •
Amendment: To expunge a
funding ban for The Daily Tar Heel
in the Student Code.
What It means: The amendment
will strike out the exclusion from
the Student Constitution because
of the legal implications, in which
the U.S. Supreme Court decided that
student groups cannot be precluded
from receiving student fees.
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FEB. 13.1958...
Women on campus are polled on
their opinion of men's fashion
at UNC. Results show that crew
neck sweaters and back buckles
are a must-have.
have a valid PID and Onyen, they
pay student fees only at Duke,
said Tony Brown, president of the
Robertson Scholars Program.
In asking for votes. Hill violated
no elections laws. She just sent the
e-mail to solicit votes.
"I think if they're interested in
what 's going on. if they care, they’ll
vote." she said, noting that Duke
Robertsons are interested in UNCs
electoral process because it usually
Is more competitive than Duke's.
Because the Code doesn't explic
itly exclude Robertson Scholars
SEE ROBERTSON. PAGE 9
Safety and security fee
4,098 votes
□J 71 percent
Referendum: To increase the
safety and security fee by 25 cents.
What it does: The fund pays for
rape victims' medicai costs, including
rape kits for collecting evidence,
medications, X-rays and emergency
room costs.
Special elections procedure
4,730 votes
□LI 84 percent
Amendment: To streamline the
special elections process by granting
authority to Student Congress and
the student body president to call
elections.
Student fee oversight
4,210 votes
□. 82 percent
Amendment: To give students
the ability to vote by referendum on
eight student fees.
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