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Candidates prepare service projects
King: Winners have big shoes to fill
BY SARAH ELLIS
STAFF WRITER
Whoever wins the Homecoming
king and queen titles will have a
tough act to follow, said Jessica
King, Carolina Athletic Association
Homecoming committee chair
woman.
Aside from the glamour that
comes with being elected to the
Homecoming court, another big
part of winning the election is
the community service project
required and funded for all win
ners.
Bert Ellison and Angela
Crocker, the 2007 Homecoming
king and queen did a good job last
year with their service projects,
King said.
Ellison volunteered at a few
local churches and elementary
schools to teach students about
King, queen hopefuls
twice as many as 2007
Queen will have to beat out 3 others
BY GABBY PINTO
STAFF WRITER
The path to the crown is not just
a walk-through this year.
In 2007, Bert Ellison had no
competition for Homecoming
king, and Angela Crocker won the
Homecoming queen crown in a
two-woman race.
Compared to last year’s unop
posed king and two queen candi
dates, this year’s two king candi
dates and four queen candidates
are confronted with some more
competition.
“It’s a little nerve wracking, of
course, but I think it’s good to have
competition,” said king candidate
Jeremy Crouthamel. “Makes it
more exciting.”
Ellison said last year that he
was disappointed in the lack
of a race but said later that he
enjoyed a relatively stress-free
campaign.
Not only does the larger num
ber of candidates add competi
tion, but it also augments the
work for those who have to put
on the election.
“As always, when you have
more candidates you would have
exercise and healthy eating hab
its.
“I enjoy working with kids and
being active, and this was a natural
extension of what I did anyway,”
Ellison said, who worked with kids
before running for Homecoming
king.
Crocker held a benefit concert
on UNC campus for the Amani
foundation.
“Angela did a fantastic job,”
King said.
“Her event was very well attend
ed and publicized and it really
counted.”
Each year, the prospective
kings and queens must come up
with their project ideas before
they run. Candidates are also
interviewed about their projects
and asked to demonstrate their
speaking skills, King said of the
more effort,” said last year’s Board
of Elections chairman Mitchell
Capriglione. “The board will be
doing a little more work than last
year.”
However, this year’s BOE chair
man, Ryan Morgan, does not think
that the increase in the number of
candidates will have any real effect
on the workload.
“Nothing really changes,” he
said. “It’s the same amount of work
for us.”
The Board of Elections holds
a mandatory rules meeting for
the candidates and also holds the
actual election. They take over the
election after the candidates have
been chosen through a process by
the Homecoming Royalty com
mittee.
In that process, potential candi
dates must submit an application
that consists of basic info, as well
as essay questions, a recommen
dation, transcript and plan for a
service project.
The next stage is the interview
ing process, which consists of a
panel of a mix of about five people
from around the University. After
the interview stage, a Board of
Homecoming 2008
process.
The candidates have two weeks
of campaigning, where they post
signs and advertisements urging
students to vote.
Ellison said he used huge post
ers, word of mouth and Facebook
groups to help his campaign for
king.
Ellison’s planned service project
was to address health issues and
encourage healthly lifestyles for
children in Orange and Durham
counties.
Crocker planned to raise funds
to support new-born Kenyan
babies and to send a UNC student
to Kenya for a service-learning
experiement.
Crocker said after winning that
the service project was something
she would have done even if she
had not won the Homecoming
election.
Though Ellison had no oppo
nents, he said he still had a good
Elections meeting is held where
the approved candidates are final
ized.
Each candidate has to com
plete a 400-signature petition to
be considered on the ballot, and
only after that they are free to
campaign.
Two students submitted appli
cations for king and both passed
through the entire process. Nine
applied for queen and four were
chosen to run.
Homecoming royalty chair
woman Courtney Knowling said
she does not think that the num
ber of candidates will affect the
amount of work that her commit
tee has to do.
“From logistical standpoint, it
is a Homecoming presentation
and we have a certain allotment
of time," Knowling said. "So if we
had 11 candidates we would have
to figure out a way to present them
so that everyone could be recog
nized.”
“We are always excited to have
as many candidates as possible,
but this year it’s been a really ideal
number and I think that cool
things have been done.”
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time running for homecoming
king.
“I was unopposed, so my cam
paign was relatively stress free and
a lot of fun,” Ellison said in retro
spect.
Once a king and queen have
been selected, they have the spring
semester to implement their ser
vice project
The Carolina Athletic
Association also gives the king and
queen money for advertisements
and productions to help their ser
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vice projects.
Last year, only one student ran
for Homecoming king and two
students ran for Homecoming
queen.
This year, two students are run
ning for king and four students are
running for queen.
King said this year’s candidates
have Ellison’s and Crocker’s hard
work to emulate.
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