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University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon MONDAY, APRIL 21.1997 INDEX Opinion 2 Campus View 3 News 4 Sports 11 Classifieds 14 Crossword 15 TODAY A celebration of the exodus of Jews from Egypt will happen today in the Ger linger Alumni Lounge at 7 p.m. INSIDE Keiko the killer whale might be released from the Oregon Coast Aquarium in 1998 The men’s and women’s track and field team won the Pepsi Team Invitational Saturday WEATHER Mostly cloudy. High 65. Low 45. Miner/Unger win ASUO post . OTHER RESULT ■ EMU BOARD Seat 1: Emily Robertson.743 Write-in.26 Seat 2: Sam Bessey.756 Write-in.14 Seat 4: Jenna Wasson.338* Stacey Wolfe.221* Shane Peterson.198 Write-in.13 Seat 6: Geneva Wortman.633 Write-in. 10 ■ PROGRAMS FINANCE Seat 3: Josh Dobson.171 Greg Labavitch.303* Dan Reid.332* Write-in. 7 ■ ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT FINANCE Seat 7: Travis R. Layton.275 Michael P. Price.497 Write-in.7 Seat 8: Kent Black.558 Write-in.7 Seat 9: Nick Bonnichsen.206 Taryn Tarver Thompson.398 Write-in. 9 ■ STUDENT SENATE AT-LARGE ACADEMIC Seat 10 Undeclared: Rheanna Cash.62 Seat 11 Undeclared: Elliott Dale.62 Write-in.3 Seat 12 AAA/lntenf isclpil na ry Tarn Allen.19 Laura Kane.31 Write-in.1 Seat 12 Arts & Letters/Journalism Gillian Brinegar.64* Mark Hemingway.59 Benjamin Kuhlman.16 K.C. McCarthy.32 Tamir.68* Write-in.1 Seat 14 Social Sciences: Michael Olson.78 Write-in.3 Seat 15 Social Sciences: Jonathan Collegio.61 Jennifer Luck.79 Seat 17 Business: Jeff Kershner.78 Write-in.2 Seat 18 Graduate/Law: Lisa Greif.43 "Asterisks indicate candidates who will have run offs in the General Election Chad Patteson/Emerald Bill Miner, left, and Ben Unger will step into the ASUO presidency and vice presidency, next year. ■ ELECTIONS: The pair will automatically advance to office as they pick up the majority vote of the primary election By Angie Suchy Student Activities Editor This pair has been “all over the place” during the last month, Bill Miner said. And that’s why Miner and Ben Unger received more than half the votes in the pi unary election to automatically become the next ASUO President and Vice Presi dent, respective ly, they claim. “From the greek system to all the [ASUO] programs to the dorms, we pounded the pavement,” Miner said. The rigorous campaigning was enough for the duo to narrowly win the election — and five re counts finalized the win on Satur day. After three ASM EXEC Miner/Unger 744 Boyd/Oberritei 183 j Smith/Shelton 174 > Ositis/Terry 163 ; Smith/John 126 • Madrid/Sal 2000 92 Write-in 2 counts, me pair was witnin a margin oi a few votes. At that point, Miner and Unger submitted a written request for a recount, Miner said. “The counts were so close, we felt that to ensure fairness, five would be an accu rate number," said Dave Whipple, ASUO Elections publicity coordinator. “We’ve spent over 40 hours on this to ensure ac curacy.” Miner said the last time president and vice presidential candidates obtained over a 51 percent voter margin in the pri mary election was five years ago when Bobby Lee ran. Miner pointed out one reason he and Turn to ELECTIONS. Page 4 The University has a long history and the most visible aspect of that legacy is the campus plan. Begun by Ellis F. Lawrence, the early dean of the School of Architecture, later designers have added to his original system of quadrangles. See story, page6&7 Part one of five International Night celebrates 30 years of success ■ CELEBRATION: International Night 1997 continues a tradition of education, fun and culture By Carl Yeh Freelance Editor At first sight, International Night 1997 was suspiciously similar to last year’s event — same EMU Ballroom, same video camera setup and same maximum capaci ty crowd. However, what made this year’s celebration of diversity different were new performances, more variety in food, differ ent countries represented and more volun teers, said Julius Darmali, International Students Association (ISA) co-director. Last year 150 performers and volunteers were involved overall. This year, more stu dent unions, as well as more community members were involved. The theme of the 34th annual Interna tional Night was “Perspectives.” The coor dinators of the program were hoping to bring those perspectives to the University community. “Long lasting friendships are forged by the diverse people cooperating on this pro ject," Darmali said. “We really thank all the student volun teers for making this possible. The biggest challenge every year is to get people com mitted to donating the time needed to make this a world-class performance,” he said. “We are in our 34th year, and we re ally are world-class.” “I'll be excited when I see the smiles on people’s faces when it’s all over. They are Turn to CELEBRATION, Page 4 MICHAEL CRISP/Emerald Emila Priyadi performs the Tari Pendet dur ing International Night Sunday evening.
