Miami Hurricane, March 10, 2000

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; runoff elections
PRESIDENT	votes	percent
Shane Weaver	509	543%
Lily Guallar	400	426
VICE PRESIDENT		
Cie Chapel	507	548
Natalie Palugyai	403	' 43.6
TREASURER	. . •	
Margaux Manley	485	53.3
Andrew Foti •	405	445
The following students won Senate seats		
ARCHITECTURE ARTS A SCIENCES ARTS A SCIENCES BUSINESS COMMUNICATION COMMUTER NORTH COMMUTER CENTRAL COMMUTER SOUTH EDUCATION ENGINEERING
ligia Labrada Laura Batista Jacqueline Benn Natasha Sweeting Julio Barroso Joseph Fernandez Danny Milian Carlos Curbelo Mokee Bridget Shaun Smart
By Beth Neumann
News Editor
Senior Shane Weaver, current speaker of the Student Government senate at the University of Miami, is the new SG president.	-
The election—following a runoff between Weaver and sophomore Lily Guallar—was pending, provided tliat there was no contest on
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Final results^, were announced yesterday at the Rathskeller.
Weaver ran on the “Demand" More" campaign, shane weaver dgamsl GualJar’s “Together Building Blocks” ticket, and received 54 percent of the votes in the runoff election. Guallar received 43 percent of the votes.
In the elections during the previous week, Weaver received 20 percent of the votes to Guallar's 26 percent.
Weaver's platform included a shuttle service to Coconut Grove, ATMs in the
residential college, longer dining hall hours, more ethnic food in the dining halls, the creation of an International Affairs Committee, more reading days, better faculty evaluations, a safer student ID system and a limit on fee increases
Also in the runoffs, junior Cie Chapel and sophomore Margaux Manley, both of the “Together Building Blocks" ticket, were elected vice president and treasurer respectively.
According to senior Sarahdia Kernizan, Elections Committee chair person, 938 students voted in the runoff elections, the highest turnout in University history, with the second largest turnout being approximately 600 in 1997.
Kernizan said there were several write-ins tor president, including “a significant number" of votes for presidential candidate junior Andrew Zuckerman.	*
The presidential inauguration will take place Thursday, March 30, at 4 p m. at the Rathskeller.
SG reviews code violations made during elections
By Eugene Carral
Hurricane Stall Writer With one of the highest number of candidates running for the University’s Student Government elections in a single year, the Elections Commission and SG Supreme Court have been reviewing the actions of code violators and the many appeals candidates have filed.
The code violation and appeals process during elections is explicitly outlined in the SG code book. When there is a supposed infraction committed by a candidate, any undergraduate student can fill out a “Request for Review" form offered by the Elections Commission.
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Ten sites served in week-long ' program
Alternative Spring ■ Break in eighth year
By Viviana Peralta
Hurricane Staff Writer
• Members of Alternative Spring Break.-in its eighth year as a program ’ of the Butler Volunteer Services Center, are preparing to send eighty students, faculty and staff members off to work on different social issues in the country from March 1) -19.
The program is an opportunity for students who are interested on investing their time in volunteerism to travel to one of the ten different sites, addressing different social issues, this year
Senior Evelin Young, chairperson for ASB, said, “The ASB prograrh is a wonderfui opportunity to meet new people, make a difference in some one's life and, most importantly, gain a fresh perspective on the world "
Semot^like Connor, vice-chair-perion for A$B, said the week would . be “a good chance for people to get out and help."
Participants will be traveling to Either the . Smoky Mountains,
, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Philadelphia, rural New Jersey, Nashville, rural New Mexico, rural Texas, Detroit or rural Louisiana.
'Issues include AIDS/HIV aware: ness, hunger and homelessness, children's issues, youth violence, environmental issues, refugee resettlement and domestic violence.
Amanda Taylor, leader for the AIDS/HIV awareness site in Minneapolis, said, “I plan to get a wider perspective on the AIDS epidemic and particularly how it relates with the gay and lesbian community."
The group going to Detroit is dedicated to preventing youth violence.
*.. ..Afccopding to site leader Jessica tie fyVPWsj p|an ft°- t»x.aie<, fcITOTh where they yWfl W'MNfte ijJL. , student? about no«.viulfiiceA Jhe*i* program's name is “Saving our Mins '* and Daughters."
Fountain said, “This is an experience I warn to have, especially in a time when violence in schools has
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CARNIVAL OF CULTURE
JORGE GALVEZ / Hurricane Staff
A WORK Of ART: Sophomore Twala Tonge gets an airbrush tattoo done during Carm Gras 2000 Tuesday
Hurricane Productions and BACCHUS work together for the annual Carni Gras celebration
Jennifer Miller
Hurricane Staff Writer The University Center Patio became a bead-filled wonderland on Tuesday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., when students and event organizers celebrated Carni Gras.
Both Hurricane Productions and BACCHUS teamed up to hold the one^dtiT ewent tilled with foqd, activities and music.
“ Fh« ..amount, of free stuff H simply amazing,” said Melissa Sturm-Smith, HP advisor.
Smith spent most ‘of the day handing out beads, boxers and hats. This year, Carni Gras introduced some new additions to the
event, she said.
Students waited in lines to hear their future fortunes from one of two tarot card readers, who came to Carni Gras for the first time Some also lined up to get air-brushed tattoos, compared to last year’s adhesive versions. Another addition included new vendors, many of them selling jewelry, clothing and trinkets
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vendor with 50 veius enperielW; set up along Orleans Street—after' the patio was divided into two streets, Orleans and Bourbon— and displayed heY white, yellow and purple blooms, to name a few
“The orchids add sweetness to the smell of food,” Contreras said.
Even though she didn’t sell as much as other vendors, she said she was glad to attend and enioyed seeing students from different cultures come together.
Not far away from Contreras, one could hear students cheering from the Association of Commuter indents (ACS) booth, ACS was une ul ^several student organizations vdhdtcting fundraisers at the 'evertf Afthwr booth, students paid one dollar to fling a whipped cream pie at an ACS.member.
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JORGE GALVEZ / K ,r aneStaf* EAT THIS: Senior Manisa Yates throws a pie at
ACS volunteer JD Barbosa
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Kiosks an idea to update campus
Info stations may appear next year
By Jessica Vaquera
Hurricane Staff Writer
Working to improve the University campus, the Building and Grounds (BAG) Committee held a meeting March I to discuss the possibilities of informational kiosks to be installed on University grounds.
During the meeting, the committee scheduled a campus tour for the purpose of evaluating existing banner locations and considering new locations throughout campus. Locations will be selected for different sizFS banners of different levels of importance.
According to Barbara White,
the University’s architect, although the name of the BAG sub-committee is the Kiosk Committee, the purpose of the komnuuec is tu evaluate and improve student organization communications.
“Kiosks are only one area of development and we have not yet reached consensus that a kiosk system will be the best solution," said White.
White added that the bulletin board system has been improved by adding more locations and standardizing the design.
“We are now working on the implementation of temporary banner locations," said White. “This helps with student events and election advertising.”
Senior Carolina Hernandez, a student member of the committee, said she feels that kiosks are a needed addition for the UM cam-
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“These (kiosks) can help represent students," said Hernandez. “And if we do have locations here on campus, it would be a great benefit for students.”
If kiosks are to be installed in the future, they may include advertising for student government campaigns, maior and minor student events, student organizations, the distribution,of student and University publications, general University information and a directory signage.
While researching the possibilities of installing kiosks on campus for the past couple of years, the committee has studied their advantages and disadvantages about four to five times a year.
Senior Raquel Russell, another student committee-member, said she feels that by next year this idea will come into effect.
“A lot of different perspectives on the committee have held us up," said Russell "We have to agree on something that is aesthetically pleasing to the eye and creative."
White said that for kiosks to work on campus, the committee must consider the location, placement and cost of such a physic«) addition to the campus
“Distribution must be accessible to all students in high traffic areas,” said White. “Placement of all elements must be attractive while advertising is up and when it isn’t An4tiMuzi*l of advertising must l*0!Wab,e for the students to qje,
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