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Show W E B E R S T A T E U N I V E R S I T Y Signpost ^ ^ JL MONDAY, MARCH 28,200 Networking js helpful job-finding skill wsusignpost.com VOLUME 67 ISSUE 76 Disqualifications, violations mark first round of elections By MARIA VILLASENOR managing edilor | The Signpost 3 9 » | t 5 ^ i £ Ryan Starks and Umair Rehman advanced into this week's final election competition against each other to be the 2005-2006 student body president at Weber State University. Cassia West was named a final presidential candidate on Friday because Rehman was disqualified. Dallas Bailey, executive vice president and elections committee member, said the only three candidates are allowed into the finaj elections in cases of ties. Casey Garner, elections chair, said the would discuss the situation with the committee and that she would likely not be in the running. Rehman was disqualified on Friday by the elections committee for violating a bylaw 1 that prohibits campaigning near 2 an active polling place, but was reinstated on Saturday by the WSU students take the first look at the primary election results .. WSU5upreme Court. posted on the WSUSA office window in the Shepherd Union "It just wasn't clarified Building Friday evening. Final elections will run from Tuesday enough (election bylaws) and until Friday at noon. I made a mistake, and I agreed Primary Elections presidential position results Ryan Starks Umair Rehman 528 373 Cassia West 322 Nate Wray 136 Nate Luce 90 to it, but it wasn't anything enough influence to actually grand," Rehman said. He said change election results, and we the committee took the extreme looked at that before we had step of disqualifying him instead seen the final count on any of imposing any fines or other vote," Garner said. "We felt that it was egregious enough that it punishment. could actually sway voters to Bailey said a student "affect the outcome." who ran during last year's Rehman appealed the campaigns told the committee decision to the WSU Supreme that Rehman campaigned in a computer lab. The committee Court, which overruled the reviewed the situation and, in previous disqualification. a 4-1 vote, decided to disqualify Supreme Court associate Rehman. "We decided that that had See Elections page 3 Napoleon Dynamite's campus invasion Library undergoes John Heder speaks B ^ ^ M H ^ H H H H ^ H H H | en^rance> Stairway to sold-out crowd ^ ^ H K ^ ^ ^ H ^^^^^^^^m remodeling By BLAIR DEE HODGES asst. news editor [ The Signpost By HEATHER HUNT-WOOD news editor | The Signpost The applause was deafening as a sold-out crowd of more than 1,700 people anticipated the appearance of Jon Heder, better known as Napoleon Dynamite. "Its kind of good to be back in Utah," Heder said. "I was attending BYU, mostly because Weber State was too far away. But you guys have a killer mascot - what was it again?" Heder was born in 1978 in Fort Collins, Colo., and sorry ladies, he is happily married. His family includes one sister and four brothers, one of whom is his identical Jon Heder, the actor who played "Napoleon Dynamite/'appeared dressed as himself twin. Friday night to speak and answer questions for a sold-out Austad Auditorium. Heder Maria Waters, a 25-year-old dental said he doesn't miss the perm he had that transformed him into the geek hero. hygiene student, and her twin, Melissa Rees, were excited to see the actor in When my twin and I got into high school, wanted to graduate and go to LA. to person. .tfcien we really got into video making. become a director or something," Heder "We think it is so great that Weber "We were really just goofing around; I said. State offers fun events that people want made this animation with my Teenage It was at BYU that he met Jared to go to," Rees said. Mutant Ninja Turde toys." Hess, writer and director of "Napoleon "And I didn't know he had a twin," It was then that Heder decided he had Dynamite." Hess approached him with a added Waters. a love for the filmmaking process and script for a short film called "Peluca." Heder spoke of how he became storytelling. "It was pretty much a very short interested in making movies while His career began at Brigham Young version of Napoleon Dynamite," Heder growing up in Salem, Ore. University, where he was a film student. recalled, "and I guess it developed a cult "Having an identical twin was cool," "I didn't really like the technical aspects following in Provo, and so Jared (Hess| the actor said. "In elementary school we of filmmaking, the editing and producing, were really into art, drawing and stuff. but like most film students at BYU I See Dynamite's page 8 For years, the concrete walkway outside of the upper west entrance of the Weber State University Stewart Library has . remained wet. Every time the snow melts or when it rains, the water pools on the cement slab northwest of the library doors. "We have a problem with the sidewalk and stairs/' said WSU university librarian Joan Hubbard. "The water just stays, and the cement is crumbling way." Even though the cement was replaced just a few years ago, the same problem remains - the water has nowhere to go and the cement continues to deteriorate. But a permanent solution is under way. Last week, a construction crew set up outside the library arfd began remodeling the east library entrance. WSU project manager lim Cox explained the remodeling process. "What's happening right now are the modifications to the east entrance so there will be access to the library when we are tearing down the west," Cox said. "There won't be any time See Library page 5 |