Western Front - 1983 May 17

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Vol. 75, No. 31 Western Washington University, Bellingham, Wash. Tuesday, May 17, 1983
* BULLETIN *
Election validated
The Associated Students Board
of Directors voted last night to val­idate
the run-off election between
presidential hopefuls Dana
Grand and Ty Hanson. The deci­sion
was the final step in assuring
Grant would be next year's AS
president.
After hearing various com­plaints
by students the board
voted 5 to 3 in favor of
upholding Thursday's election.
The AS board vote to offer an
^apology , for the inconvenience
caused by a faulty polling
booth.
Complaints filed
to election board
By ELAYNE ANDERSON
At least four complaints were
filed with the election board after
Thursday's Associated Students
Board of Directors presidential
run-off election, which put Dana
Grant over the top with five more
votes than his opponent, Ty
Hanson.
The election board was sche­duled
to meet yesterday to review
the complaints. Election Board
Chairwoman Marian Young said
probably no action would be
taken on the complaints until
today or tomorrow.
Copies of the complaints were
not available to the Front. How­ever,
three of the complaints were
filed by Leonard Brevik, AS vice
president for external affairs.
In one complaint, Brevik said he
cnargea mat trie Ked Square pol­ling
booth didn't open until
about 9:25 a.m. According to elec­tion
codes booths are to be open
from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Brevik said he was in Red
Square attending an (E)Quality
booth from 9 to 10 the morning of
the election. He said several stu­dents
approached his booth to
vote and he had to direct them to
another polling areai
Another complaint filed by
Brevik states that the Red Square
voting booth ran out of ballots at
11 a.m. when he went to vote. He
said the booth again ran out of
ballots at 1 p.m.
Young said the Red Square
booth opened about 10 minutes
late. She said the people attend­ing
the booth had classes, and
this sometimes made it difficult
to check all the booths.
Brevik's third complaint was
that the election results released
Thursday night did not match
the results posted the following
morning. Thursday night the
results 446 for Grant and 440 for
Hanson, with three absentee bal­lots
outstanding. Friday morning
the results were posted as 446 for
Grant and 441 for Hanson, includ­ing
the absentee ballots.
Young said the two-vote dis­crepancy
was because Thursday
night the votes were hand
counted and the next morning
they were computer tallied.
"What can you expect when
you're hand counting over 800
votes," Young said. The votes
were hand counted three times.
Don Hall, a senior human ser­vices
student, said he filed a
complaint because he was not
made aware of the availability of
absentee ballots. Hall is a night
student and works a 40-hour
week.
He said he didn't think this vio­lated
election codes, but wanted
to inform the election board of
the problems night students have
voting.
"There was nothing in the
Voter's Pamphlet or the Western
Front. I feel there was a lot of stu­dents
in human services left out.
As students, it's our right to vote.
"I'm just asking them to take
into consideration that there are
some students who didn't have
the opportunity to vote in both
elections."
Young said "mistakes were
made" during the elections, but
none of them were made mali­ciously.
She said the election is a
learning experience like all AS
activities.
A lot of the complaints are
because the election was so close,
Young said.
A day for Norman Photo by Blair Kooistra
Running the race which bears his name, Norman Bright climbs the hills on 30th Street Sunday, halfway
through the 5.5 mile Norman Bright Road Run. The 73-year-old Bright, nearly totally blind, is guided by
Western sophomore David LaRocque. Bright set several world records since graduating from Bell­ingham
Normal School, Western's predecessor, in 1929. More than 200 runners completed the
sixth-annual race, sponsored by the Alumni Office.
History prof Kohl dies
Paul A. Kohl, of the history
department, died yesterday at
the age of 62.
He was director of the archival
and records management
program.
He collapsed outside the Lec­ture
Hall building at approxi­mately
10:20 a.m., said Chuck
Page of campus police.
Two officers for Western's
department of public safety and a
female student worked on Kohl
until paramedics from the Bel­lingham
fire department arrived.
According to eye witnesses,
Kohl hit his head on the door
frame as he fell when going
through the rear entrance.
Margaret Cagle interrupted the
Biology 101 class in Lecture Hall 4
to ask if anyone knew cardiopul­monary
resuscitation tech­niques.
The man was not bre-thing
and had no pulse, she said.
By the time an ambulance and a
fire truck arrived, Judy Ihrig, an
emergency medical technician
who was in the biology class, and
campus police Walt Springer and
Mike Murray were on the scene.
Ihrig and the paramedics admin­istered
oxygen, gave CPR, and
injected intravenous medication
• See HISTORY/page 3
WSL race Thursday
As of yesterday only three students had filed for positions in the
Washington Student Lobby elections set for Thursday.
Tina M. Abbott, Tom Osterman and George Sidles are the candi­dates
running for six of the seven undergraduate positions.
Two WSL State Board representatives, one a diversity representa­tive
and the other an at-large representative, will be elected in
addition to four local WSL chapter board positions.
Abbott is running for the diversity position and Osterman and
Sidles have not declared which positions they will seek.-
The other undergraduate voting member is the Associated Stu­dents
president from each of the state and regional universities.
The eighth position will be filled by a graduate student.
Western's WSL elections Thursday include candidates forums
from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Viking Union 408, and 7 to 8 p.m. in theVU
Lounger. Voting will be from noon to 8 p.m. in the VU lobby.
The filing deadline is 5 p.m. tomorrow, and write-in candidates
will be accepted.