ASUO elections
Primary election
ends today
Today is the final day for students
to choose which ASUO election can
didates they want to advance to the
general elections.
Voters can also elect candidates
outright by giving them a 50 percent
Forces
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the battlefield that we’re aware of,”
said Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal,
vice director of operations for the
Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff. “We
are prepared to be very, very wary
of what they may have, and pre
pared for a big fight.”
Wariness was the key word on
many fronts.
One day after U.S. Marines and
Army soldiers — and the euphoria
they delivered — raced through
Baghdad, sporadic battles, looting
and bloodletting raged in that city
and elsewhere in Iraq.
In the capital, at least one Marine
was killed and dozens wounded in
fierce battles with squads of hard
core Hussein loyalists near a palace,
a mosque and other places.
Illustrating the dangers that re
main, a lone man walked up to a
Marine checkpoint Thursday night
and detonated an explosive
strapped to his body, seriously
majority in the primary election,
which closes today at 5 p.m.
As of 5 p.m. Thursday, 1,838 stu
dents had logged on to DuckWeb and
exercised their right to democratic
choice. However, that only repre
sents 10.6 percent of the student
voting population.
Andrea Hall, ASUO elections coor
dinator, said students are encour
aged to vote if they have not done so
wounding four Marines near the
Palestine Hotel in Baghdad.
The U.S. military toll rose to at
least 105 dead, with many others
wounded. Air Force Maj. Gen. Gene
Renuart described the capital as
“still an ugly place.”
In Najaf, southwest of Baghdad, a
crowd hacked to death two Muslim
clerics during religious consulta
tions and political negotiations in
the shrine of Iman Ali, one of the
holiest sites of Shiite Islam.
The killings of Abdul Majid al
Khoei, who was persecuted by Hus
sein and recently returned from ex
ile in London, and Haider al-Kadar,
a member of Hussein’s Ministry of
Religion, appeared to stem from po
litical tensions.
Still, some progress was report
ed: In western Iraq, villagers in
Rutbah welcomed allied forces,
asking them to stay to keep out the
“death squads.” The town later ap
pointed a mayor and installed a
new government, replacing Hus
sein’s Baath Party.
Grievance
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saying he wouldn’t erase it. However,
Meany said the reason he didn’t take
the grievance seriously was because
of a miscommunication. Meany said
in his communications with Hall, he
thought candidates were simply com
plaining because he had been chalk
ing around campus, and he didn’t re
alize he was breaking a specific rule.
“I kind of got a little flip with her
actually,” Meany said. “I kind of re
ally blew it off and told Andrea I did
n’t think it was a big deal.”
Meany said if he had known it was
a violation, he would have erased
the chalk immediately.
The ASUO Elections Board held
an emergency meeting to address
the grievance Thursday afternoon,
but neither the plaintiff nor the de
fendant attended.
After brief deliberations, the
ASUO Elections Board unanimous
ly voted to issue a sanction to
Meany against any campaigning for
24 hours, beginning today at mid
night. The penalty for breaking the
sanction will be disqualification,
and if Meany attempts to campaign
after voting closes at 5 p.m., he will
be removed from the general elec
tion ballot.
Contact the senior news reporter
atjenniferbear@dailyemerald.com.
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already, and should be mindful of the
5 p.m. deadline.
If a candidate does not poll more
than 50 percent at the closing of the
virtual voting booths tomorrow, the
two candidates with the highest
number of votes in the race will be
put on the ballot for the general elec
tion, which begins at 9 a.m. on April
21, and ends at 5 p.m. on April 23.
—Jennifer Bear
© 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune Informa
tion Services. Peterson is with the
Marines in Baghdad; Landay is with Kur
dish forces in northern Iraq; Merzer re
ported from Washington. Also con
tributing were Knight Ridder
Newspapers correspondents Sandy
Bauers aboard the USS Harry S. Truman;
Jessica Guynn at the Pentagon; Mark
McDonald from Mosul; Peter Smolowitz
at allied headquarters in Qatar; and Juan
O. Tamayo with the Marines in Iraq.
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Saturday
"West Coast Choralfest" (University choirs
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State University Chamber Singers; 3 p.m.,
Boise State University Meistersingers;
4 p.m., University Chamber Choir and
University Singers, Beall Hall, $5.
"Waging Peace Through Singing"
(University choirs and guest choirs),
8 p.m., Beall Hall, $5, $3.
Sunday
"Lou Harrison Memorial Concert" (with
Charles Dowd, Art Maddox and three
gamelans), 8 p.m., Beall Hall, $7, $4.
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Art reception (Samantha Smith, Tara
Floten, Annelia Norris, Jennifer Lim, John
B. King, Diana Yom, Michael Smith and
others), 7 p.m., Laverne Krause Gallery,
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"Santa Fe Guitar Quartet" (quartet from
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