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Kentucky Kernel

; Judicial board to decide King’s fate Monday

By CAROLINE SHIVELY
Staff Writer

The Student Government Associ-
ation Judicial Board heard an appeal
of the disqualification of a candi-
date's election to the senate yester-
day. However, the judicial board
will not release an opinion until
9:30 am. Monday.

The SGA Elections Board unani-
mously voted to disqualify David
King because he failed to turn in his
expenditure forms by the 6 pm.

deadline on the last day of elec-
tions.

Cyndi Weaver, former SGA pres-
ident. filed the appeal with the judi-
cial board claiming the actions of
the elections board were in conflict
with the SGA constitution and by-
laws.

“The point of the election board's
(argument) seems to be you can’t
allow candidates to ignore the rules.
but our point is you can't allow the
elections board to ignore the consti-
tution," Weaver said.

Weaver said the constitution does
not allow a candidate to be disquali-
fied for a violation that did not af-
fect the outcome of an election.

She argued that the election rule
on which the board made the deci-
sion mandates automatic disqualifi-
cation of the candidate without re-
gard to whether this failure had an
impact on the election.

“The rule simply contradicts the
constitution in two places," Weaver
said.

The 6 pm. deadline. Weaver

said. also contradicts a provision in
the SGA bylaws specifying 8 pm.
as the deadline.

She said both the bylaws and the
election rule contradict the constitu-
tion.

Elections board Chairperson
Greg Watkins said: “The elections
board was acting on the rules that
were passed by the senate unani-
mOusly. We feel that we should up-
hold the rules, and that's what we
were trying to do."

Weaver also said the elections

board does not have the authority to
declare an election invalid unless a
written challenge is made by anoth-
er student. Weaver claimed that no
such challenge was made.

“There isn’t a written challenge,”
she said. “No one challenged Da-
vid‘s election."

Watkins said Ted Supulski, elec-
tions board member, submitted a
written challenge. However. he did
not have the challenge to present to
the judicial board.

Weaver also argued that the elec-

 

 

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Wynna Hodges and Kirsten Eppers. members of Zeta Ta Alpha social sorority, pull Lambda Chi Alpha member Minh Le through the mud in a chariot race at Clilton Cir-
cle. The race kicked off Greek Week.

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1991 graduates targeted by library drive

By NICK COMER
Staff Writer

Soon-to-be UK graduates pledged
more that $10,000 during the “Pack
the Stacks" phonathon, which ended
last night.

The phonathon, sponsored by the

The Albert B. Chan-
dler Medical Center
is holding a health
fair for all UK em-
ployees and their
families today from
noon to 6 and tomor-
row from 8 am. to
noon.

 

 

 

Tennis
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Student Development Council, be.
gan last week in its attempt to ap-
peal to all UK students who are
graduating this May. The students
were asked to pledge $35, the aver-
age cost of a library text. to the
campaign.

The money will go toward UK’s
drive to raise $2.25 million for a
$750,000 challenge grant from the
National Endowment for the Hu-
manities.

Officials said the campaign is go-
ing better than expected, and most
of the graduates have been reached.
As a result, the phonathon has set
its sights on undergraduates.

“We are still urging the class of
‘91 to pledge, but we're also target-
ing other classes," said Sean Loh-
man. chairman of the Student Li-
brary Endowment Committee.

which is sponsoring the “Pack the
Stacks" crunpaign. Lohman an-
nounced at last week's University
Day that the committee‘s goal is to
raise $1 million during the next
three years to benefit the National
Endowment for the Humanities
campaign and a new central library,
which has been proposed for UK.

Sarah Coursey. a committee
member. said that “responses have
been positive.”

Anne Vonderheide. coordinator
of the phonathon, said the response
to the event exceeded her expecta-
tions.

Vonderheide said the phonathon
replaces the “UK Challenge" which
SDC has sponsored in recent years.
That event solicited graduating stu-
dents to donate money to their re-
spective colleges.

During the past week. the phones
have been tnanned by staff, faculty,
various student organizations like
fraternities, sororities and residence
halls.

One of last night’s phonathon
workers was Bernadette Locke. as-
sistant basketball coach and hono-
rary chair of the campaign.

Locke said she was excited to be
working with the endowment com-
mittee on this project.

”The students are really enthusias-
tic." she said.

Locke said books and periodicals
in UK's libraries are “resources
(which) need to be available."

Students who donate 535 during
this year‘s campaign will have a
personalized nameplate placed in

See LIBRARY, Back page

tions board denied King the right to
submit evidence and call in witness-
es about possible violations.

“If you’d given David King the
chance to come into talk to the elec-
tions board. he would have said,
‘Well I know another senator
who turned his form in the next day
and (wasn’t disqualified),‘ ” Weav-
er said.

Watkins Stud King should still be
disqualified because he broke the

See SGA, Back page

Inmate

receives
UK award
for studies

By JULIE ESSELMAN
Senior Staff Water

Last April, Dwight Allen was
struggling for the right to continue
coming to UK and finish his politi-
cal science degree.

Allen, an Honors Program student
and an inmate at Blackburn Correc‘
tional Complex, had been in a
study-release program that allowed
him to attend classes at UK during
the week. The State Corrections
Cabinet can-
celled the pro-
gram two years
ago and told
Dwight that last
spring would be
his last semester
on campus.

But after
much publicity
and calls from
UK officials on ALLEN
Allen's behalf, state officials dt‘Cl’J-
ed that Allen could finish Ill\' hitliiv
res at Us

Now, a year alter that decision
Allen has been sclct'lsd t» I.‘;t‘l\C
the Robert Zutiiwinkle Honorary
Award for I‘ih advocagi' or student
rights. It I\ one ol the Student (1m;-
ernment .‘\ssocitition‘s h:;:he