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Chabot, Potler Grab
Council Positions

Referendum Receives Support
Waitzkin Leads Class Balloting

By Brian Siegel
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

College voters sent Phil Chabot and Andy Potler both of the Virginia Progressive
Party, to Student Council in this week's University elections while no candidate for
Senior Class President received the essential 40 per cent vote needed for office.

Both the Senior Class Referendum and the Student Council Referendum passed at
the polls.

Of the 4,820 votes cast in the race for
the two Student Council seats, Mr. Potler
led the pack of eight candidates with
1226 votes. Mr. Chabot trailed close
behind with 1,153 votes.

New Seat

One seat was to fill the vacant spot
left on Student Council by the
resignation of former member Tony
Sherman. The other position was a new
seat created to give the College a fairer
share of representation.

Outdistanced by some 297 votes,
Allen Freeman of the Jefferson Party
came in third with 857. His running mate Tom
King placed fourth with 804 votes.

The Liquifactionist's candidates, Michael
Capobianco and Jacob Ference, came in fifth
and sixth with 391 and 231 votes respectively.

John Farrell, with 112 votes, came in
seventh while Ronald Low placed eighth with
46.

Class President

In the election for Senior Class President a
total of 741 ballots were cast. Buzzy Waitzkin
led the field of seven candidates with 227 votes
or approximately 30 per cent.

Runner-up in this race was Bob Nigro who
garnered 112 ballots.

The new Senior Class Constitution which
was also approved in this election states that for
a candidate to win election he must win 40 per
cent of the vote. Otherwise, a run-off will be
held at the request of the runner-up between
the two leaders.

If no run-off is requested, the front running
candidate is declared the winner.

The other candidates split the remaining
votes. Arnold Goldin took 79; Trip Lynch
received 77; Doug Bain won 65; Charles Collin
captured 64; and William Harris got 63. In
addition, several write-in ballots were cast, the
most — 5 — going to Steve Zoukas.

The Senior Class Referendum on the Class
Constitution passed by a vote of 642 to 155.

Phil Chabot

Wins Council Position

Both referendums that were voted on needed a
simple majority of the votes cast for approval.

The Union of University Students
Referendum on the new code of conduct was
also approved, however, by a much slighter
margin. Of the 3,779 votes, it received 2,023
for about 54 per cent.

In the Architecture School Mary White was
elected to the Judiciary Committee with 89
votes.

All undergraduate schools at the University
voted for representatives to the Senior Class
Executive Council.

From the College, none of the seven
candidates received the needed 40 per cent of
the vote. Bill Creason led with 68 ballots
followed by Thom Faulders III with 65. As
with the Class President elections, Mr. Creason
will be declared winner unless the runner-up
asks for a run-off.

Losers

Not far behind in third place was Jim Basl
with 61 votes and John Cook with 56 votes.
Trailing was Al Hadeed and Clifford Weckstein
each with 52 votes and Fred Leffel with 35.

In the Education School Ed Kihn with seven
votes became Senior Class Representative
beating Carole Rogin and Nancy Gilbert who
had three and one respectively.

New Senior Class Representative from the
Architecture School is Ted Smith with two
votes who beat Greg Lukmire and Christos
Dedes — each receiving one vote.

Bob Nigro was elected representative from
the Commerce School receiving 35 votes.
Richard Hammond was a far second with two
votes. Randy Lestyk, John Pettey, Bill May,
and John Vey each received one vote.

Representative from the Engineering School
is Dave Kunsman who received 30 votes. Steve
Zoukas was runner-up with 21 votes while
Barry Shenton and Andy Miller trailed with one
each.

In the School of Nursing Sue Tompkinson
won the representative position with 35 votes.

All winners in the various elections for
representative to the Senior Class Executive
Council received the required 40 percent except
in the College.