The Carolinian [March 14, 1991]

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Cloudy tonight, 30% chance
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The Carolinian
Vol. 70, No. 18 The Student Voice ofUNCG Thursday, March 14,1991
Benefits Fair
AUSTIN OASHIELU CaroUnan
Faculty learned about benefits at the UNCG benefits fair, sponsored by the department of
Human Resources.
Debate prevents passing of new
SG constitution for third week
ByRODOVERTON
SG Information
The new Student Government
(SG)constitution remained unpas-sed
by StudentLegislative Assem -
bly (SLA) membersTuesday night
for the third week in arow, guaran-teeing
the constitution will not
appearas a referendum during next
week's campus-wide elections.
Debate, which stalled the pas-sage
of the constitution, was cen-tered
en the issue of SG presiden-tial
qualifications.
Several motions to amend the
sectionofqualificationsweremade
— one completely omitting the
section which defines the presi-dential
candidates as a member of
student government — but none
were passed.
Delegate Keith Funderburk in
a motion raised the idea that the
Student Government
president should be chosen from
the SLA. Funderburk wanted to
keep the qualifications as they
currently are, which states a presi-dent
must be a representative of
student government.
This current rule denies mem-bersofthe
AttorneyGeneral's staff
or other branches of student gov-ernment
from running for presi-dent
The motion was eventually
failed by the SLA.
Another motion, which would
eliminate the prerequisite that the
presidcntmusibeamemberofSG,
was later made and debated, but no
decision was reached on the issue.
The motion, if passed next week,
will allow candidates to run for
president that have no prior expe-rience
with student government.
SG President Jeffrey Weeks be-lieves
the possible amendments
will not have a positive effect on
the constitution.
"I have great concerns about
the possible amendments dealing
with presidential requirements. We
have to keep in mind that the docu-ment
has to be approved by the ad-ministration,"
Weeks said.
With the constitution not ap-pearing
on next week's referen-dum,
Weeks said that time is run-ning
out on having the document
approved by Chancellor William
Moran this semester.
"Next week is probably our
final chance to pass the document
through the SLA. If it (the new
constitution) passesSLAany later
than that, we won't see any action
taken this year," Weeks said.
Next week marks
elections for f91-92
campus offices
By KARIN J. GARNER Q'U N
Assistant News Editor
Campus elections will take
place next week, March 18-20.
Elections will be held for Student
Government (SG) president, vice-president,
and delegates.
Officers and delegates will also
be selected for the Campus Activi-ties
Board (CAB), the University
Media Board (UMB), and the
Commuter Students Association
(CSA).
Polling places will be held in
Sharp/Mclver Lobby in EUC, and
in the dining hall.
Commuters will vote in EUC,
while non-commuter students will
vote in the dining hall. In EUC, the
polling places will be open from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m., and from 4 p.m. to
7 p.m.
Election booths in the dining
hall will be open from 11 am. to 2
p.m., and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
each day.
In addition, residential students
may not vote for officers and dele-gates
for CSA. Only commuter
students may vote for CSA posi-tions.
All students may vote one time.
This includes seniors and graduate
students.
Students will be voting for
delegates in the class they expect
to be in next semester.
For instance, juniors will be
voting for senior delegates. Cur-rent
seniors and graduates may vote
for any position except SG dele-gates.
Flections
I V E R S I T Y
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Election results for officers will
be announced Wednesday night
after the ballots are tallied.
Delegates will be annouced on
Thursday.
Ballots will be tallied only after
the closeof voting on Wednesday.
Campaigning began last Mon-day,
and will end on Wednesday,
March 20.
Among the election rules, can-didatesmay
not campaign forother
candidates.
There is to be no ticket-cam-paigning
or voting.
In addition, there is to be no
verbal or written campaigning or
lobbying at required organiza-tional,
residence hall, and other
meetings unless approved by a ma-jority
ofthe organization or group.
Door-to-door campaigning in
residence halls is also illegal.
Finally, candidates misrepre-senting
any facts concerning a
campaign to the Elections Board
shall be considered in violation of
Elections Board Policy and shall
be subject to the same.
There have been some prob-lems
in past elections, most in-volving
charges ofvandalism dur-ing
the campaigns.
Last year's freshman elections,
and SG delegate elections, had to
be re-voted.
SG President Jeffrey Weeks
saidofthisyear'selections/'Ihope
they go smoothly.''
Carolinian extra
Election Section p.4-5