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The Rice Thresher
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by Meghan Miller Thresher staff
Opposing candidate Ricky Kalra, a Wiess College sophomore, received 37.3 percent of the 1,005 ballots cast in the SA presidential election, which took place as part of the General Elections from Feb. 23 to Wednesday. Last year, 1,169 voted in the presidential race, while in 1999 only 733 voted. Lisagor, 1999-2000 SA secretary, said she and Parks are looking forward to being co-presidents. "Both of us have been involved with the SA since we've been at Rice," Lisagor said. Parks, a member of the Martel College Founding Committee, was also 1999-2000 SA treasurer. The two plan to hold discussion- and issue-based SA meetings every other week in place of the current weekly meetings. "It's going to be more solution-oriented," Parks said. James Dallal, a Lovett College junior, did not appear on the ballot due to academic ineligibility, though he was initially considered a candidate and participated in last week's presidential debates. (See Story, Page 4.) Dallal received 2.98 percent of the vote as a write-in candidate. "I appreciate that people supported me despite the fact that I wasn't a candidate," Dallal said. Because the ballots are cast online, some students whose ID numbers were not in the SA database had difficulties voting. Students who had problems were told to contact Hanszen senior Igor Karpov, who handled the technological end of the elections. "The registrar gives us a database at the beginning of the year, and some people don't have their IDs in there," Karpov said. "What they do is e-mail me and I'll put them in the database." The other four elected SA officers were uncontested. Brown College sophomore Uri McMillan will be the external affairs vice president, and Sid Richardson College sophomore Kim Tran will be the internal affairs vice president. "My main goal is to change the campus climate, specifically with respect to race and sexual orientation," McMillan said. "I want to make the campus more comfortable for students so they don't feel like they have to move off-campus, and get student organizations more involved with the SA by making them more aware of what the SA does." Hanszen freshman Caroline Glendenning will be secretary, and the treasurer will be Sid junior Anita Rajadhyaksha. Hanszen junior Angela Durbin was elected president of Rice Program Council in an uncontested election. "I want to encourage more spirit and involvement with the campus in athletics," Durbin said. Ben Horne, a Wiess junior, will be KTRU's first station manager elected by the student body. Election of the student station manager was part of the compromise KTRU and the SA came to with the administration after KTRU was shut down last December. The shutdown followed the station management's clash with administrators over the number of sports events to be broadcast. "By no means am I trying to radically alter the station," Horne said. "If anything, I would like to see more Rice music played on [KTRU]. I don't want it to be about me personally, but I want it to be about the music." Horne said he wants to improve the relationship between student athletes and the rest of the student body. "If we understood where each other was coming from, there'd be mutual respect," Horne said. Leslie Liu and Robert Reichle, Wiess juniors, were elected editors in chief of The Rice Thresher. Outgoing SA President Lindsay Botsford will be one of the undergraduate representatives on the University Council. Since she was the only person running for two open spots, the other position will be chosen in the Spring Elections, March 23-28. There were no candidates for editor in chief of the Campanile, so the yearbook editor will also be decided in the next round of elections. Will Rice College sophomore Steven Caufield and Jones College sophomore Chad Chasteen are the new co-chairs of the Rice Student Volunteer Program. The two said they hope to increase RSVP visibility on campus and improve participation. Caufield and Chasteen ran uncontested. "We want to improve Outreach Day and hopefully expand it to get a larger participation," Chasteen said. "We want to make RSVP more of a campus organization than it has been lately, basically through a lot of publicity, and just keep going with the programs that we have that are good, and hopefully fix the ones that are not working, and maybe come up with some new ones." Also elected in uncontested races were RSVP Treasurer Ian White, a Brown freshman, and Secretary Sharel Ongchin, a Hanszen freshman. Hanszen freshman Kate Floyd defeated Wiess freshman Phyllis Huang for RSVP internal vice chair. Three candidates were initially on the ballot for internal vice chair, but Will Rice freshman Renee Edlund voluntarily withdrew from the race Tuesday night. Edlund refused to comment on her reasons for withdrawing from the election. Write-in candidate Brown junior Matt Ludwig received 3.86 percent of the vote for SA president. Ludwig was also a write-in in seven other elections. Trushar Sarang, a Hanszen senior, was a write-in in 11 elections, receiving .59 percent of the presidential vote. Sarang won both University Court senior representative and Honor Council representative-at-large last year as a write-in. He declined the U. Court position but served on the Honor Council. Lisagor and Parks also received write-in votes supporting each of them alone, not as a team. Lisagor got 1.39 percent and Parks received 1.69 percent.
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