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SPRINGFIELD - 3270 GATEWAY ST - 541.988.9226 Sunday thru Wednesday 8am - 2am / Thursday thru Saturday Open 24 Hours ousuo 1 elections Effect of election money in campus setting debatable ASUO executive tickets Rees-Anker-Lagos and Walsh Coy spent almost one-third less than last year's two tickets BY PARKER HOWELL SENIOR NEWS REPORTER ASUO Executive elects Adam Walsh and Kyla Coy took in less than half the campaign contributions op ponents Ashley Rees and Jael Anker Lagos received during this year’s elections, according to financial pa perwork filed by the candidates. The Walsh and Rees tickets pulled in combined donations of about $2,390, about 31 percent less than top contenders Ben Strawn and Adam Petkun received last year. The candi dates spent about $2,031, also about one-third less than expenditures by last year’s candidates. Winners Walsh and Coy solicited and spent about $726, according to the records. Walsh and Coy each contributed about $238 to their campaign, com posing about 66 percent of their cam paign’s income. Ardemis Walsh con tributed $250. Election rules prohibit contribu tions larger than $500 from any one person or group. Walsh said the small environment for a campus election makes publici ty “a lot easier to come by.” “Really I think it goes to show that in such a closed-off environment, money isn’t necessarily going to be the decision maker,” he said. He also said monetary contribu tions aren’t as important in ASUO races because of low voter turnout. “The kids that are going to be vot ing, ... most of them are going to take it upon themselves to learn about the candidates and who they’re going to vote for,” he said. “Unlike larger elec tions where turnout is seen as your civic duty, here it’s really if you’re interested, if you want to take the time to check it out.” He added that he wants to moti vate students to become more in volved next year. Walsh said he and Coy began plan ning and saving as early as December to prepare for their Executive bid. Rees and Anker-Lagos gathered $1,664 in monetary contributions, spending $1,305 with a surplus of about $359. Contributions from Rees and Anker-Lagos made up about 11 per cent of their income. Rees con tributed $175, while Anker-Lagos did not contribute. The ticket received major contribu tions from family members. Roberto Anker gave $500, Sara Beth Rees gave $350, Pat Rees gave $320 and Natalia Anker-Lagos gave $100. Friend Sara Berger contributed $120. Rees and Anker-Lagos said they spent the majority of their funds on T-shirts and on copying fliers and posters. Rees said money can help a cam paign gain visibility, but it won’t help a campaign that doesn’t en gage students. “You can’t say that you need to have money to have an effective campaign,” she said. “We spent our money on visibility and we’re hap py with the amount of visibility we had in the campaign.” Although election rules don’t speci fy when the ticket must return unused funds, past candidates have been en couraged to repay excess money with in two weeks, Election Board Coordi nator Kelly Cheeseman said. parkerhowell@ daily emerald, com IN BRIEF New Oregon Daily Emerald editor in chief selected The Oregon Daily Emerald Board of Directors has named Senior News Reporter Parker Howell as the newspa per’s next editor in chief to follow the current editor Jennifer Sudick, who will graduate in June. Howell, a 20-year-old junior journalism stu dent from Hillsboro, started working for the Emerald in March 2004. He now reports on cam the newspaper with his work. Howell pledged to work hard to of fer the “best professional leadership.” “We will continue the things we are doing well, and renovate the things we need to improve,” he said. Howell suggested changes to three aspects of the paper. First, he proposed renovating the newspaper’s online presence and offering more multimedia sources online. “We will put some of our interviews on our Web site to let people de cide whether our reports are accurate,” he said. He said he also plans to put some short video and documentaries on pus and federal politics. Mark Watson, chair man of the Emerald board, said Howell's PARKER HOWELL 2005-06 EDITOR IN CHIEF line to help readers bet ter understand the sto ries the paper runs. Another big change will strong news sense and experience distinguished him from the other candidate. “Both candidates are extremely strong, and the board really made a very difficult choice,” Watson said. However, he added, Howell’s answers to some tough questions and his ideas on renovating the newspaper persuad ed the board to select him. Sudick said she has a lot of confi dence in Howell and believed he would improve the overall quality of be on the commentary page, where, he said, all kinds of voic es would have the chance to be heard. “We will also try to offer more an swers in the editorials rather than only asking tough questions,” he said. The Emerald will also run some sports coverage on the front page un der Howell’s leadership. He said he be lieves lots of readers want to see their favorite stories upon their first look at the newspaper. — Aibing Guo
