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Show Alan Bailey SUSC Student Wins Office In Election Alan Bailey, a sophomore general education major at Southern Utah State College, was one of 12 S.U.N. (Students Understanding Needs) party candidates capturing student body positions in the Feb. 27 student body election on the Cedar City campus. Bailey, son of McKay Bailey and the late LaFaye Bailey, Escalante, was elected social vice president in the election where Stuart Jones became president-elect and where Jones' S.U.N, party candidates were elected by very narrow margins in the hotly contested election. In the same general election, SUSC students narrowly defeated a proposition that would have made the Cedar City campus a nuclear free zone. Hie total votes against the proposal were 417, while the votes for the proposal totaled 382 a difference of only 35 votes. The proposed amendment to the ASSUSC Constitution would have declared the campus a "nuclear free zone in which no research deployment of nuclear weapons . . . shall take place." Jones, a junior business administration major from Cedar City beat P.R.O. (Professional Representation Organization) party candidate Stuart Riley by a vote of 523 to 468. Jones will be inaugurated as the ASSUSC Student Body President Saturday and will take office with other newly elected officers at the beginnnig of the spring quarter, S.U.N. candidiate Mike Mauger, a junior pre-dental major from Las Vegas, Nev. defeated P.R.O. candidate Brent Drew for the office of academic vice-president by a vote of 539-462. Bailey defeated P.R.O. candidate Ray Olsen by 578 to 407 votes for the office of social vice-president. A dozen ASSUSC senators were also elected, again by very close margins. Three students will serve in student government from each of the college's four academic schools. While S.U.N. candidate captured nine of the 12 slots, one vote made the difference between a winner and loser in the race for education senators, and only six votes separated winners and losers in contests for arts and letters and business, technology and communication senators. Only a 28-vote spread separated tne first and sixth place totals in votes for school of education senators. Election officials made three counts to verify the race, with only one vote separating senator Merilee Riggs and unsuccessful candidate Scott Williams. Jones and his two vice presidents will now select members of the ASSUSC Executive Council, several appointed positions which will be announced In the near future. |