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Show The DAily Utah CELEBRATE H MONDAY, FEBRUARY NDCIE 22, 1968 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Happy Birthday U. See page 1 0 VOL 97, NO. 94 Final elections will include all four ASUU parties By Lori Bona and Sharon Deckert Chronicle elections reporters A appeal filed Saturday by thet V 1.1 nosoiuieiy u. rarty win place all four ASUU parties in this week's final elections. , ion riounn-piac-l e 1 A 1 A Arvind Singh and Shelly Ashwill, presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Absolutely 4 U. Party, asked for a because they said Elections 're-electi- on Registrar Elliot Lawrence's balloting and arbitrary decisions skewed results. primary Singh and Ashwill filed an appeal with the elections committee Saturday a day after they accepted the results of a five-homix-up- s ur recount in which they came in fourth place. The recount was called Thursday evening after it was announced that less than 32 votes Who Cares? and separated the second-plac- e third-plac- e Students' parties. The Absolutely 4 U., Active '88 and Students' parties had met with Lawrence Thursday to discuss solutions to a balloting mixup that allowed 155 students to vote for two parties. ballots would They decided all two-vo- te be counted, with each of the selected parties receiving one vote. Parties agreed to advance three parties into the finals if less than 32 votes separated the second and third place candidates. This number represents percent of the total votes cast on ballots. 10 two-vo- te The 32-vo- te margin left the Students' Party less than three votes shy of this 10 percent margin. After the hand recount, Active '88 remained in first place and Who Cares? remained second. The Students' Party ended up four votes shy of entering the final race. Although the Absolutely 4 U. Party accepted the results of the recount, candidates Singh and Ashwill protested the election itself. "The idea of 'letting everybody go in and whoever gets the most votes, make them the president' is fine if the election is done fair, but it wasn't," Singh said. "I think if we were to just go ahead again, have one final thing and let the people could merge, but ideals may be in conflict decide there would be no problem," he said. Singh and Ashwill said their appeal is a matter of principle, and was not spurred by their party's fourth place finish. "I would have (called for a even if I would have won. I wanted everybody to go into the finals," Singh said. Lawrence said it is unusual to advance all four primary parties into the final election. But Singh's argument that the primary was illegal was convincing. Lawrence and the three other parties agreed Saturday afternoon that everyone should be allowed to run again. Flynn Andrizzi, Active '88 presidential candidate, initially opposed the Absolutely 4 U. appeal. However, he decided he would see "elections" on page five Two parties 111:11 -- VM i y-- ' j ; By Lori Bona and Sharon Deckert m Chronicle elections reporters &P ' " y Although the Students' and Who Cares? parties feel they can win ASUU's unorthodox final election on their own, they have been negotiating behind the scenes to form a coalition. , wmi: u... aa - ,'11 II -- u i i I The Students' and Who Cares? parties have been considering a merger since primary election results were announced Thursday. Students' Party presidential candidate Tom Price and his running mate Trina Eyring said they will run in the final election unless they can reach a compromise with the Who Cares? Party. "We believe our ideas and agenda would convince the student body to vote for us. But if we can work in some way with another party in a way that both feel comfortable with then that's great," Price said. Although the two parties have been negotiating for days, no decisions have been made. Price said they have considered every possible aspect of a merger including who will be the president and vice president. Grant Sperry, Who Cares? Party vice presidential candidate, said his party has been negotiating with the Students' Party, but no conclusions have been reached. "If we compromise our Hookie ideas then what we do is negate everything we've been running for. That's our concern. We don't want to be sucked into the omniverous machine," Sperry said. "We want to work with them, but we don't want to compromise with them," he said. Sperry said merging into one party may not be possible because each party would have to compromise too much. He said compromising Hookie ideals to win the election would not be a victory. Price said his party also has some platform ideas it will not compromise, such as setting up a day care center in the University Village. The Students' and Who Cares? candidates differ from the other three parties because they don't support the status quo. However, the two parties differ in their solutions to the problems they see in student government. Sperry said they hope they can change ASUU enough in one year so that next year it won't return to the status quo. Price said although some of the parties' goals may not be compatible, electing a conservative president and vice president is more dangerous than destroying ASUU. "If the beast has to die to make itself better, then so be it. I'd rather throw it to someone who has new ideas to someone who is really committed to change. "It's more important that the ideals are achieved than personal agendas. If there's a way that the agendas can be achieved and we come together rather than a fractionaliza-tio- n, that would be positive," Price said. Price said the Who Cares? Party places a lot of faith in the notions of average student and casts off the who can and cannot perform in student government. pre-conceiv- ed (.hromclc photo by Guv l'Jiicr Christopher Conabee and Stacy Shrader, candidates for the X Party, said they are running as a write-i- n because they believe there are no other suitable parties running that will solve ASUU problems. duo enters ASUU race Write-i- n X Party calls for commuter students' involvement of view and plan to increase funding for the library by By Lori Bona and Sharon Deckert Chronicle elections reporters party officially declared its candidacy for ASUU president and vice president Sunday increasing the number of parties running in the final elections to five. Christopher Conabee and Stacy Shrader, presidential and candidates for the X Party, said they decided to run for ASUU because none of the existing parties has feasible platforms. Conabee and Shrader said they attended forums and followed the primary elections closely before deciding to run for ASUU. They said they are not running for ASUU to split the conservative student vote. "If we didn't think we could win, we wouldn't run," Conabee said. He said both he and Shrader have placed their college careers on hold in order to run for ASUU. Conabee, a senior majoring in international economics, and Shrader, a senior majoring in elementary education, said their major platform issue is student participation. The X Party said it plans to increase the participation of commuter students by bringing nationally recognized speakers and bands to campus. They also plan to continue successful ASUU programs such as the TGIF, the Union and the book A party write-i- n vice-president- ial 24-ho- ur exchange. Conabee and Shrader promote publishing a student review that will evaluate professors from the students' point requesting specific donations. Conabee and Shrader said they both have ASUU Assembly experience. Shrader was a member during the 1985-8- 6 school year. Connabe was elected to this year's Assembly, but resigned shortly afterward. Conabee said he has enough executive experience to run al ASUU. He is the vice president of the Alumni Council and has worked for the American Cancer Intra-Fratern- Society Art Auction. Although Conabee and Shrader' s candidacy may affect the final election, most of the parties are not concerned. Flynn Andrizzi and J. J. Fernandez, candidates for the te Active '88 Party, said Conabee and Shrader their support. "We tried to separate ASUU elections from high school. This is not a popularity contest," Andrizzi said. Andrizzi said running a write-i- n campaign is "fair and the American way," but it is not the "noble thing to do" because it gives the candidates a financial advantage. "They have S 1,500 to spend in three days." Absolutely 4 U. candidates Arvind Singh and Shelly Ashwill said write-i- n candidates have several advantages over traditional candidates, such as avoiding controversies that are publicized during the primary elections. "Anybody who runs should realize he has to uphold the guidelines of the ASUU Constitution," Singh said. He said such guidelines include participation in primary elections. Tom Price and Trina Eyring, candidates for the Students' Party, however, said write-i- n campaigns are fair election strategies. over-estima- Non-prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |
