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Show Chronicle - Page Four FOCUS On The 1989 ASUU Elections Tomes changed elections don't By Edward Ruiz Chronicle assistant news editor Despite its growth as a diverse entity, the University of Utah student body has maintained one consistent quality: With few exceptions, most students don't care about ASUU elections. And this year is not one of those exceptions. The two ASUU presidential and vice presidential candidates are running on the platforms of "less talk, more action," and "unity, not apathy." Sorry fellas, it's all been said before. Again and again and again. For instance, this headline ran in a March 1983 Chronicle: "New ASUU officers pledge action, not words," and this one from a Chronicle one year earlier:" "New U. president to fight apathy." Low voter turnout, unoriginal platforms and general disinterest in student government has consistently plagued ASUU elections over the years. However, Virginia Peterson, coordinator of the Student Involvement Center, believes apathy isn't a problem on campus and that students really do care. The problem, she explained, is that students are too busy to show their interest. Peterson, who has been at the U. for 15 years, said ASUU elections are "basically the same every year," adding that each election has its own unique problems. This year's campaign has been relatively quiet, but a "positive one," she noted, saying that the candidates" are "very mature." One of the most controversial ASUU elections came in 1985, she said, when on the first day of final elections, the Chronicle ran a story about Marc Pinnock, who was accused of a "wrongdoing." Pinnock was accused of creating a bogus "Surprise Party" of write-i- n candidates to take votes from another party. That morning, some of Pinnock's Sigma Chi fraternity elections registrar, brothers, along with a were caught stealing Chronicles and trashing them so students couldn't read the negative story. The elections registrar was immediately fired, and, surprise-Pinno- ck pro-Pinno- ck Voting now easier with longer hours, lost the election. Besides that incident, the ASUU elections time line has been spotted with other occurrences of nastiness, g trick and sneaking a falsified like the ol" column into the Chronicle. Aside from condoms and library funding, election issues have remained basically the same. In May 1969, ASUU ran an ad in the Chronicle addressing problems that students are still facing today. You Don't Give A Damn It said, "ASUU Power-Su- re About ASUU Until... "UNTIL You've sweated like a pig for three hours trying to study in the library and your glasses fog up from the humidifier. . . . UNTIL You've 'circled the parking lot for the sixth time while there are plenty of empty V.I.P. sticker spaces. . . . UNTIL You've spent $12 for a new book and got 20 percent back from the UNTIL You realize that it would be safer bookstore to cross Central Park than our campus after dark. ... 'Then You Care-DOFight 'EM Join 'EM!" additional location ballot-stuffin- Today and Thursday will mark the conclusion of the 1989 ASUU elections as University of Utah students make their annual trudge to the polls to elect their student representatives. locations available There are six voting-boot- h for students; including a new location at the U. Bookstore. Unlike last year, the U. village will not be used as a polling spot The following is a list of where and at what hours voting booths will be available for students: Marriott Library: 8 a m. to 9 p.m. Union Building: 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Eccles Library: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Student Services Bunding: 8 a.m. to 5 p jxl Ballif HalL 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. U. Bookstore: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The voting booths at both the Marriott Library and the Union will be open until 9 p.m. for NT Replace the humidifier problem with lack of classroom heating and triple the price of the new book in the ad, and the current ASUU administration could easily have placed the same ad in today's Chronicle. And now for a few ASUU elections firsts: -- The first ASUU president was William W. Ray, who was elected in 1901; to be The first elected was Randy Dryer in 1970; The first black ASUU president was write-i- n candidate Grover Thompson; -- The first woman ASUU president was Paige Paulsen self-proclaim- "non-Mormo- ed studentsVconvenience. All a student needs to vote is a valid student I.D. and a couple minutes of their time. Each student will cast a ballot for a presidential ticket n" and the individual ASUU Assembly candidates from his or her own college. : computer voting system has been implemented this year to improve the voting A new process and cut down the. time involved in in 1979; and The first black woman elected as president was Jacque Morgan in 1987. One last tidbit: It has been a tradition that the newly elected president and vice president would take a dunk in the Union fish pond. However, when Jacque Morgan was elected in 1987, the pond was empty, so she didn't go swimming. Last year, the fish pond was changed into a plant holder. So much for traditions. tabulating the results. Students now will enter the voting booth with an information sheet. The sheet will contain candidate names that correspond to a specific number on the computerized ballot A student votes by darkening the numbered circle that corresponds to his or her choice of candidates. -- Scott Stone GOINGS ON ABOUT CAMPUS Items for the Chronicle events calender should be submitted two days prior to the event by 4 p.m. in the Chronicle offices, Union 240. Please note that the calendar, or parts of it, may be cut due to space limitations. Today 7:30 a.m., Surgery Grand Rounds, "Obstructive e Small Intestine Disease," and Michael Grossman and Edward Nelson, HSC ... Pseudo-obstructiv- Classroom C. -- noon, Women's Resource Center Lunch With a Lawyer, "Divorce: What Women Should Know," Penny Heal Trask, attorney, Union 293. noon, SAC committee seminar, "What It Takes and How She Made It to the Top," Maria Shailaos, KUER news director, LCB Library. -- 3:20 p.m., Differential equations seminar, d "Hardy-Littlewoo- Integral Inequalities: Analysis or Numerical Analysis," Norrie Everitt, JWB 308. 3:20 p.m., Metallurgy and metallurgical engineering graduate seminar, "Bubble Attachment Times and Surface Reactions in the Oleate Flotation h of Selected Phosphate Minerals," William Rare-Eart- Cross, WBB 207. -- 4 p.m., Biomedical sciences lecture, "RNA 2:15 p.m., Anthropology colloquium, "How Inheritance of Wealth Affects Reproductive Self-splicin- g: Backbone Mutagenesis, Conformational and Splicing in Reverse," Thomas R. Cech, Changes, University of Colorado at Boulder, Browning Strategies," Alan R. Rogers, ST 209. 4 p.m., Pharmacology - Auditorium WINTROB. 11 a.m., Mining engineering careers seminar, "Metals and Management Mining and Lewis EngineeringResearch," Gregory Boyce Neuronal Differentiation in C. Elegans," Martin Connelles, Kennecott Utah Copper Co., EMCB 122. -- 11 a.m., Chemistry seminar, "Fischer Carbene Complexes in Organic Synthesis," Min Park, HEB Chalfie, Columbia, BIOL 212. 4 p.m., Physics department colloquium, "Synchrotron Radiation Studies of Amorphous 2006. -- 11:30 a.m., TGIT presents Harmony Grits, Bluegrass, Union Deli. -- noon, Middle East Center Brown Bag Lecture, Materials," Arthur Bienenstock, Standford University, JFB102. -- 4:15 p.m., Mathematics colloquium, and Representation Theory." "The Role of Auxiliary Forces in the Ottoman Army," Robert Staab, MEG 15D. -- noon, Biochemistry journal club, F. Linker, MEB 214. -- 2 p.m., U. Cambridge Experience," Jem Poster, Union Den. "D-Modu- les ' ;. r -- 7:30 p.m., Men's basketball, Utah vs. Air Force, ry Study Abroad Program, "The and toxicology seminar, "Cell Biology of Cerebral Endothelium," Paula Grammas, Wayne State University, SK H 250. -- 4 p.m., Medicinal chemistry seminar, "PET and SPECT of the Brain," Bram Stolk, SK H 316. 4 p.m., Biology seminar, "Genetic Analysis of Thursday 16th-Centu- :- JHC. -- 8 p.m., University Travel Club, "Canada's Parks," ; Admission $2-$- 3, Kingsbury Hall. -- 9 p.m., Women's basketball, Utah vs. New Mexico State, JHC. tnte Enfo g THURSDAY . 6:30 PM Meet at Institute LDSSA "Adopt a Grandparent" at the Salt Lake Home Musical program at 7 p.m. Plan now to attend. There are over 100 people to adopt so please come. It's a very rewarding experience. 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