Oregon Daily FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1993 EUGENE, OREGON VOLUME 94, ISSUE 142 Bowen/Collins Puente grab Executive posts j Fisher’s write-in campaign sends IFC races to run-off By Tammy Batey Oregon Daily Emerak.1 Erin Bo wan and Diana Collins Puente will be the 1093-94 ASUO president and vice president, the student government Elections Board announced Tuesday night. The pair beat out Leslie Warren and Mark Johnson Bowen and Collins Puente received 9.3(> votes Warren and Johnson received 885. Election Board members were forced to hand count the ballots because of a large number of write-in candidates They post poned releasing the election results Wednesday night because they hadn’t ret eived results from students at the Ore gon institute of Marine Biology in Charleston. "I'm very very happy and very relieved it’s all over." Bowen said. "It was an extremely stressful period going to the recount and with theOIMB students Sherce Watson of OIMB Thursday faxed the ballot results Tract Dennis, ASUOelet • lions coordinator. A large number of w rite in candidates also slowed the ballot-cuunt inn procress. Martin Fisher, Oregon Daily Emerald editorial editor, was written-in as a can didate for every position on the ballot except fora few Stu dent Senate seats. Dennis said In an Emerald column on April 19, Fisher wrote: "Any position. Fverv position. Write me in wherever you want." Dennis said Fish er's write-in votes were a significant fat tor. "Martin suueeded Martin Fishar in disrupting tint electoral pres i'ss in that we had tu hand i.uunt morn ballots than over because of his write-in c ampaign." Dennis said. Fisher also forced the two-year Inci dental Fee Committee i andidates into the general tiled ions l*s ause no uindidate was able to win the necessary majority. The Turn to ELECTION. Page om linttee fails to meet its court—appointed deadline. The court ruled in response to an April If) complaint filed by ASUO President Hobby Lee asking the court to set condi tions for the committee's operation for the rest of the term. The ASUO complaint stated the com mittee hud missed several scheduled bud get hearings and failed to complete Turn to COURT. Page 4 A little bubbly? by fWHty Poindexter the Clown and Emily Dobkowski blow bubbles together Thursday during Earth Day activities in the EMU courtyard University of Virginia debates ban on student-faculty sex □ Faculty group votes for compromise on strict prohibition on relationships CHARLOTTESVILLE. Va. (AP) — University of Vir ginia faculty members on Thursday endorsed a compro mise proposal that bans sexual relations between instructors and the students they teach. The Faculty Senate voted 31-4 for the ban instead of a strict prohibition against all sex between students and faculty that a Women's Concerns Committee had advo cated. Supporters said the strict policy would curb sexual intimidation of students, but opponents decry it os an unconstitutional limit on love. Women's committee memfmrs said thev were satisfied with the compromise. "We just weren't going to win," said third-year student Angela Kline. "We wanted something to protect the stu dents.'’ I ho (acuity voto will lx) Kent to univursity ('resident John T. Casleen III. who will make a recommendation to tho hoard of visitors. The board sets |»oltc:y at the 18.000 student school Thomas Jefferson founded in 18l‘» "We've gone to a lot of trouble and I'm certain that he'll pay a great deal of heed to our advit o." said Robert II. Kretsinger. president of the 08-member Senate, which represents the school's 2.000 faculty members It wasn't immediately clear why only 35 Faculty Senate mem Turn to VIRGINIA. Page 4 WEATHER Get ready for a wet weekend as showers are expelled to con tinue through Sunday. Partly cloudy today with a 40 percent chance of rain. Highs about 60 degrees Today in History In 1065. Coca-Cola Go. announced it was changing the sec ret flavor formula for Coke MONEY FOR HIGHER ED The Senate Ways and Means Education Subcommittee approved SIO mil lion beyond the governor's mandated budge! for higher eduiation Thursday If the Senate and House approve the S )0 million, S1H 4 million will be used to increase access to students With the money. 1.200 students will be denied access, and without it. 4.000 students would be denied access. The governor s proposal would lower nest year's tuition increase to 7 per cent. a reduction from the 15 percent increase proposed by the Oregon Stale System of Higher education. SPORTS LEXINGTON. Kv (AP) - A University of Kentuc ky football p layer was in c ritical condition after shooting himself in the head Thursday while playing a form of Russian roulette Ted Presley," 22, a junior from Hopkinsville, was shot shortly before 12 SO a m Thursday in the dormitory, school spokesman Ralph Demi kson said Kentucky football players gathered at the hospitals emer gency room Thursday morning to pray for their teammate "We are all stunned.' Kentucky football coach Bill Curry said ‘Our entire football family has been grieving about this situa tion since the first instant.*