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Freshman election results
by Charles Woods
Ben Pugh emerged the president of the
freshman class in a narrow riin-off victory
1 12-99 over Darryl Wilson September 20.
Pugh's election was the result of five
days of campaigning on the part of Pugh,
Wilson and Alan Smith, who was
eliminated in the general election on
September 19.
Wendall Sheffield was elected freshman
class vice-president. Lisa Littlejohn won
the race for freshman class secretary and
Beth Wood was elected treasurer in a run¬
off.
It was the presidential race that stirred
up some feelings as to possible ir¬
regularities in the elections.
A number of Pugh's signs had been
damaged the day before the general elec¬
tions, and Pugh filed a list of complaints
with the Student Association.
“We considered these,” said Bryan
Owens, president of the S.A., “and didn’t
see any basis for disqualifying anyone. No
one had seen anybody do anything.”
Later that night, Owens called a session
of the Student Executive Board to discuss
the complaints again. A quorum of Owens;
Tracey Kelley, senate vice president; Clay
Henderson, senate secretary; and Val
Broom, chief justice of the judiciary was
present.
"We (the S.E.B.) decided there was
nothing we coud do-all evidence was cir¬
cumstantial. We regretted the situation,
but it was beyond our power.
"If indeed we had valid proof of bad con¬
duct on the part of a candidate or his sup¬
porters, we would have disqualified him.”
The election was continued with Pugh
and Wilson making the run-off.
"There were no discrepancies on
Wednesday,” said Owens.
The next problem occurred the night of
the run-off, after the ballots had been
counted.
“We found an error in the Montclair
ballots,” said Owens. “They read Pugh
and Smith, not Pugh and Wilson.”
Only nine of a possible 22 freshman votes
were cast at Montclair, but when the
mistake was found, the elections commit¬
tee decided to have a new election, at
Montclair only, on the following Monday.
“Meantime,” said Owens, “it was
brought to my and the elections commit¬
tee's attention that Wilson still had cam¬
paign posters up - three in all.
“Election run-off rule number four
states, ‘Run-off candidates must remove
all campaign materials by 8 a.m.
September 21, 1979, or disqualification will
result."
The re-election was still to be carried
out, but in the event Wilson won, he would
be disqualified and Pugh would be presi¬
dent.
If Wilson lost, he would be brought
before the student judiciary for a hearing.
"After explaining the situation to both
Pugh and Wilson, neither understanding
the mechanism of the student judiciary,
Wilson submitted a statement of conces¬
sion,” said Owens.
The senate filed charges against can¬
didates in other freshman races for the
same violation, though, he said.
“Violations of election rules will be en¬
forced,” said Owens. “Any candidates
would be treated that way.”
“Each candidate Is responsible for his
own campaign materials and workers and
their conduct,” said Owens.
Several charges of incompetence and
mishandling of the freshman elections
were made against the elections commit¬
tee of the senate.
“The problems concerning the freshman
elections relate to the newly established
charter and by-laws,” said Madonna
Merkling, elections chairman.
It was hard for the elections committee
to establish an adequate election system
without by-laws to the charter,” she said.
“Unfortunately, sometimes we have to
make mistakes to learn; and to perfect a
system,” said Merkling.
“The elections committee will be
meeting to review the newly proposed by¬
laws forelections. Any suggestions concer¬
ning election procedures or rules will be
considered,” she said.
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Dr. Eugene A. Nida
By laws revised
The student senate revised its by-laws to
conform with the Student Association
Charter in its session Tuesday, September
25.
Proposal nine in article one of the by¬
laws, which concerned an allowance for
closed executive sessions of the senate,
was stricken from the by-laws.
The senate also approved the results of
the freshman class officers election. Ben
Pugh is president of the freshman class;
Wendall Sheffield, vice president; Lisa
Littlejohn, secretary; and Beth Wood,
treasurer.
There had been some questions concern¬
ing the validity of the presidential race, in¬
volving an error on run-off ballots at Mont¬
clair, complaints of campaign signs being
destroyed and signs left on display after
times permissible by election rules.
Carol Ray was approved as co-
chairperson of the Student Services Com¬
mittee, and Senator Jeff Goodwin was
voted to chair the Step Sing Scholarship
Committee.
A special committee was voted on to
handle the problem of parking space
allocation. The parking problem at the
married student apartments was reported
to have been solved.
There will also be a continual check on
washers and dryers in the dorms to insure
they are working properly.
Charles Davis was voted to chair the
Grounds Committee, which will look into
lighting and air conditioning problems.
The senate as a whole expressed the
desire that students know they may com-
palin to their senators about specific pro¬
blems, especially food services and finan¬
cial affairs.
Dr. Nida convo
speaker, Oct. 1 1
Dr. Eugene A. Nida, Executive
secretary for the Translating Department
of the American Bible Society, will be the
guest speaker for the Annual Ministerial
Association Lectureship this year.
Dr. Nida is an internationally renowned
linguist. He has been involved with work
on more than 200 languages in over 75
countries.
He will address the Ministerial Associa¬
tion Thursday, October 11 at 7 p.m., and
will speak in Chapel at 10:10 a.m. Friday,
October 12. Convocation credit will be
given Friday.
Dr. Nida has been with the ABS since
1943. He is also Coordinator for transla¬
tions work in the Americas for the United
Bible Societies.
In 1967 Dr. Nida was one of two reci¬
pients of the Gutenberg Award, presented
by the Chicago Bible Society for
distinguished service in the cause of scrip¬
ture distribution.
He was awarded the Diamond Jubilee
medal of the Institute of Linguistics In 1976
for his contributions to the science of
linguistics.
Dr. Nida also received the Alexander
Gode Medal from the American
Translators Association In 1977. This
award is presented to the Individual who
has made the greatest contribution in
translation during the preceding year.
He did his undergraduate work in Greek
at the University of California at Los
Angeles, received his M.A. in Patristics
and New Testament Greek from the
University of Southern California and
earned his Ph. D. in Linguistics at the
University of Michigan.
Dr. Nida holds five honorary degrees,
the two most recent coming from Heriot-
Watt University in Scottland in 1974 and
Brigham Young University earlier this
year.
He is a member of the Linguistic Society
of America, society of Biblical Literature,
Societas Linguistica Europaea and three
professional societies.
Dr. Nida was born in Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma and now resides in Greenwich,
Connecticut. He is married to the former
Althea Lucille Sprague.
While at Samford Thursday and Friday,
he will also be lecturing to the upper level
Religion, Religious Education, Philosophy
and Biblical Language classes.
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