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Thursday, April 9, 1970

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 122

Bright Wins SG Presidency By 883
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Althoff, ACT Also
Win In SG Election
By J. PATRICK MATTIES
Assistant Managing Editor
And RON HAWKINS
And DAHLIA HAYS
Kernel Staff Writers
A near record turn out of voters elected Steve Bright and Skip
Althoff to the offices of president
and vice president in Tuesday

and Wednesday's Student

Gov-

ernment election.
Candidates of the Action Coalition (ACT) party collected mne
of the sixteen available senate
seats.
The 4,482 ballots cast in the
two-da- y
election were described
by former SC representative
Bruce Carver as constituting a
"near record turnout." Bright
received 2180 votes, 883 votes
more than his nearest contender,
Ched Jennings.
In a short victory speech
Bright said, "there are a lot of us
here tonight who have voted for
a winner for the first time."
"We had an uphill battle to
climb and we have climbed that
hill," he said, adding that "it
will never be that hard to climb

Jennings refused to comment
on whether he would protest the
election. "At this time I'd have
to reserve comment and reassess
any voting violations which have
been reported."
Bill Dawson congratulated
Bright and pledged his support to
him after saying he planned to
relinquish his seat as an SC

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Bright TrilMipllS
ballots, another type of ballot
had to be substituted. These substituted ballots had to be counted by hand so the results were
not known until after 2 a.m.
Breakdown Votes
of the votes by
office and candidate is as follows:
For SC president: Bright 2180;
Jennings, 1297; Bill Dawson
(SIP), 279; Cary vSmith, 164; Jim
Williams 79. Wally Urvis received 160 votes as a write-i- n
A breakdown

cadidate.

Student Voting
Creates Losers
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Steve Bright, new SG president, is shouldered by enthusiastic
suPPrters after his victory of 883 votes over Ched Jennings. Skip
Althoff is the new vice president. Nine ACT candidates and one
SAR candidate are 10 of the 16 new SG representatives.

For vice president: Skip Althoff, 1724; Roger Valentine, 1289;
Don Waggener (SIP), 361; Dan
Crabtree, 287; and John P. Stain-back,

188.

For SG representative: Wendy
McCarty (ACT), 1438; Jim
1411; Josh O'Shea (ACT),
1409; BuckPeimington, 1325; Sara
O'Briant, (ACT), 1308; Baxter
Shilling, 1293; Jim Flegle, 1274;
Fu-tre-

Coiuiie Runyon (ACT), 1270.

Hazel Colosimo (ACT), 1220;
Fletcher, 1215; Lyim Mont- -

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representative.
Candidates, backers and interested bystanders observed the
wake for Student Government.
A backer who had either started celebrating or drowning his

sorrows too early staggered
through the crowd showing everybody his hand which he had cut
opening a champagne bottle.
Williams Carries Spirit
Jim Williams, fifth place finisher in the SG election for president, led several
from the steps next to the grand
ballroom.
Williams declared at one point
.that everyone on campus had
expressed his opinion during this
election, and that as much opinion was expressed by the non-votagain."
as by the voter.
"The big job is not belund us
Random strums of guitars
. . . the big job is ahead of us,"
filled the Student Center throughwas Bright's final statement be- out the
night. "Where Have All
fore he walked down the stairs the Flowers Cone?" and "Co
from the Crand Ballroom to be Tell It on the Mountain" were
further congratulated by the wait- among favorites of the crowd
ing supporters.
while waiting for election results.
Carver explained that a major
Jennings Comments
The defeated Ched Jennings reason for the delay in the ansaid his lack of campaign exper- nouncing of the victors was because there were two types of
ience hurt his election bid.
said he thought that ballots.
Jennings
Ballots were sent to New Jerthe alleged Creek sheet "and the
of the ballot de- sey to be printed and were not
composition
returned to Lexington until Tuesprived us (Jennings and Valentine) of many votes that could day. Because four of the polls
have given us a possible victory were to open early Tuesday mornor made the election closer." ing and there were no printed

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Some Winners!

gomery, (Free Soil Party), 1202;
Craeme Browning (ACT), 1189;
Cuy Mendes (SAR), 1183; Jan
Teuton (ACT), 1122; Howell Hop-so- n
(ACT), 1086; Donna Shoupe

(ACT), 1054.

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Of the

16

representatives

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sen, three were reelected: Buck
Pennington, Lynn Montgomery
and Connie Runyon.

Eight of the 16
are Creek.

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