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pril n, 2003

Celebrating 31 years of independence

 

WHY IS
ROY
WILLIAMS
SMILING?
WELL WHY
WOULDN'T HE

Supreme Court upholds 56 election

Decision: Court rules 4-1 that discrepancy in vote
tallies would not have affected the election outcome

By Paul Lelghtty
snrr wanna-

The Student Government
Supreme Court last night up—
held the results of last week‘s
election. despite arguments
from election officials that all
or part of the election should
be overturned.

The decision was 4-1,
with Justice Brian Hopper

dissenting. The court met in
the College of Law court-
room after a discrepancy of
171 votes in the election re-
sults gave rise to suspicion of
voter fraud or errors in how
voting was recorded.

Eric Mills, the election in-
vestigator. argued in favor of a
new election in races where
the discrepancy may have af-
fected the outcome.

WAR IN

Braphus Kaalund and
Holly Harris argued on be
half of several candidates
that all election results be
upheld.

Hopper said to explain
his vote, “I’m dissenting
more in the fact that it's time
SG started covering their
asses." and avoiding election
problems.

In explaining the majori-
ty opinion, Chief Justice
Phillip Wheeler said:
“There’s just as much of a
likelihood that this will hap-

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pen next election. If we over-
turn this election. we'll be
just as much obligated to
overturn the next election."

Wheeler said there would
be discrepancies in every fu
ture election, and that no
member of the court suspect-
ed fraud was the cause of the
171—vote discrepancy.

Kellen Baker. Board of
Elections chairman. said he
agreed with neither the
court‘s decision nor the elec-
tion investigator's argument.
Baker had filed four election

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violation claims on behalf of
the board that argued in fa-
vor of holding a new election
for all offices.

Claims included charged
that candidates did not have
access to an uptodate copy of
the constitution. and that vice
presidentelect Matt Rippetoe
was not qualified to run.

Baker arrived in the
courtroom to testify with
Mills. but said he refused to
testify after seeing that Mills
did not plan to argue the
claims that were filed on the

By Sherri ELI"!!!

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This Sunday.

to the races.
Keeneland

mission to the track.
“Staff Day

break," said

interning
Keeneland.

teachers and staff."
must

ployees

ployee ID.

many
UK employees will be off

Race
Track is holding its first
Staff Day and offering
faculty and staff free ad-

gives
teachers and staff a day
to get away and have a
Christa
McAlpin a student at UK
with

“Its a day to honor

To receive free admis-
sion all university em-
enter
through the Grandstand
East Gate with an em-

board's behalf. “I couldn’t
stay for the court out of the
fact that I expected to pre-
sent a case on the whole elec-
tion being redone.“ he said.

Mills said he argued what
he understood to be the con-
sensus opinion of the Board
of Supervision. which was
that a new elecrion should be
held only in some races.

“I don't know how they
can live with themselves
knowing that there were
races that were so close," Bak-
er said of the court's decision.

Keeneland offers
UK employees
free day at track

been a huge
McAlpin said.

Last fall. close to 1,000
students from Kentucky
and all over the United
States visited the track on
College day.

This year College Day
is scheduled for Friday,
April 18.

All students must pre-
sent valid college identifi-
cation cards and enter
through the Grandstand
East Gate to receive free
admission to the track.

Kentucky Thorough-
bred Association has
teamed up with
Keeneland this year and
will give away $10,000 in
scholarships, $1.000 given
to a lucky student at the
track after each race.

Keeneland gates open
at 11 am, and the first

success.

The first 250 staff
members entering the
gate also receive a pro-
gram of the races and
events of the day and
tickets for seats in the
grand stands.

The two major races
this Sunday include the
Commonwealth Breeders'
Cup Stakes and the Jenny
Wiley Stakes.

This is the first Staff
Day at Keeneland. but
College Days have always

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Kurds sweep northern Iraq;
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assocurtomss .

Opposition forces crum-
bled in northern Iraq on
Thursday as US. and Kur-
dish troops seized oil-rich
Kirkuk without a fight and
held a second city within
their grasp. U.S. comman-
ders said signs pointed to a

last stand by Iraqis in Sad-
dam’s birthplace of Tikrit.

Despite the gains, one
Marine was killed and 22 in-
jured in a seven-hour battle
in the Iraqi capital. Four
more were wounded in a sui—
cide bombing. “Baghdad’s
still an ugly place,” said Maj.
Gen. Gene Renuart.

Widespread looting per-
sisted 24 hours after the city
celebrated the regime’s fall.

Striking anew at the
regime leadership, coalition
aircrafi dropped six satellite
guided bombs on a building
where Saddam’s half-broth-
er, Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-
Tikriti, was believed to be.

The half brother once
headed the Iraqi intelligence
service, and the building in
Ar Ramadi, 60 miles west of
Baghdad, had served as an
intelligence service opera-
tions site, said Marine Maj.
Brad Bartelt, a spokesman

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

SARS case reported
in Florida workplace

ATLANTA # Federal officials said Thursday the new

respiratory virus that began in Asia may have spread for the
first time in a workplace in the United States.

Dr. Julie Gerberding. head of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. said a suspected SARS virus patient
who became ill after traveling to Asia may have infected a
co-worker in Florida.

Gerberding said she was very concerned about the pos-
sible spread of the disease and said the Florida case is being
investigated. Gerberding and Florida officials declined to
name the location.

Until now. severe acute respiratory syndrome has ap-
peared to spread only to family members or health workers

 

Women share stories of Balkan War

shared the same route.
which led to the United
States.

Grahavoic. who was ex-
pecting her first child when
the war began, said that in-

Remember: Student project brings women together
to reflect on terror in former Yugoslavia, U.S. action

By Derek Poore
STAFF WRITER

War came as a surprise
to Mirjana Antic during the
conflict in the former Yu-
goslavia. and she was forced
to live in fear.

Antic and two others —
Julija Bozich and Dzevada
Grahovic — shared vivid
personal stories of the war
in the Balkans Thursday in
the WT. Young Library

“Women in War: Stories
of Survival“ was organized
by Aumaine Mott as a part
of her Gaines Center fellow-
ship.

Mott, a Russian and East
European studies junior. said
she was asked to do some-

thing “community based“ as
a part of her junior jury pro-
ject for the Center.

Mott looked to her close
friends and the stories they
had to tell.

The three women told
their chronicles of destruc-
tion. religious prejudice. and
ethnic cleansing and refugee
camps, many times with tears
welling up in their eyes.

“While we were walking,
we had to watch where we
were stepping because there
were a lot of bombs hidden
under the leaves.“ said
Bozich. who was 9 years old at
the time of the war. She came
to the United States in 1996.
when she was 16.

stead of her first childbirth
being a joyful experience, it
was hell.

“All I could hear was
grenades exploding.” she
said. “Being in labor at that
point wasn’t important at all.
Saving someone's life was
more important.“

Grahovic's family was
forced to flee their homes.
and refugee camps were iso-
lated and overcrowded.

“60,000 people in the
middle of nowhere." she said
of the camps. “Each family
was with a few bags of food
and clothes.“

Grahovic eventually fled
to Germany, and the other
two eventually sought peace
elsewhere as well. All three

During the war. many
were angry because (former
Yugoslavia) was not aided
sooner. Antic said.

“Most people were upset
because Bosnia was part of
Europe." Antic said.

Scenes of celebration in
Baghdad this week praised by
the three women.

“It's so nice to see free-
dom in Iraq after three
weeks,“ Bozich said. adding
that she wished it hadn't tak-
en four years for the United
States to rescue her country.
but that she is thankful.

“So many years later I
will never forget." Grahovic
said with tears in her eyes.
“I'll never forget that I lost
the best years of my life."

 

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health workers

SARS." Gerberding said.

 

who have had close contact with an infected person.

So far. a dozen people -~ nine family members and three
had been infected in that manner. The test
of the 166 suspected cases in this country involve people
who were infected while traveling in Asia.

In Florida. the possible spread was found during the
health department's routine investigation of one worker's
contacts. The health investigators discovered a coworker
who had a respiratory illness and placed that person on the
list of suspected SARS cases.

“It is far too early to know if any of these workers have

But just in case, she said the CDC will post new gum-
ance regarding SARS for schools and the workplace.

“We are asking people to contact their clinician if they
have any kind of unusual illness." she said.

Since the World Health Organization announced a
World“ ide alert last month about the emergence of SARS,
the I'mted States has implemented infection control policia
in hospitals and among households of suspected cam.

A SARS case outside close contacts could cause health

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