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Schools To Elect New Officers;
Referendum On '71 Class Gift

By Phil Kimball
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Polls will be open today and tomorrow
as students in most of the University's
schools elect next year's Honor
Committee.

Running for President of the College
are Thomas Bagby, Michael Capobianco,
Alan Featherstone Kip Klein, Gerald
Lientz, Chris Mallis and Robert Proutt.

Candidates for Vice President of the
College include Tom Buchanan, Richard
Durkes, and Patrick Whitlow.

Five other schools of the University,
including the Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, and the Engineering, Education, and
Nursing Schools will also elect representatives
to the Honor Committee today and Thursday.
The Graduate School of Business
Administration will hold its election in an open
assembly to be held tomorrow afternoon.

Representatives from the Law and
Architecture schools and the School of
Medicine have already been chosen from
elections held earlier this year.

Write Ins

While the names of all candidates who
submitted petitions prior to 5 p.m. Monday
afternoon will appear on the ballots, any
student eligible for election may be a write-in
candidate provided that a petition, signed by a
minimum of 25 students from the appropriate
school, is filed in Student Council offices prior
to the closing of the polls tomorrow afternoon.

Undergraduate and graduate degree
candidates from the various schools will also
vote today and tomorrow in a referendum on
the selection of the graduating class gift. The
three options open to qualified students include
a gift to the Alderman Library, an
undergraduate research fund, or the renovation
of the Bayly Museum skylights.

Robert Nigro, President of the graduating
class stated that "It is the first time in recent
history that a committee has been organized to
go into the University community to actively
solicit proposals and ideas for class gifts from
numerous University administrators.'

The selection committee, chaired by the
Vice President of the graduating class Dave
Kunsman, includes a member from each of the
ten schools of the University. This committee is
"doing its best to present to the graduating
class viable options that it feels are most
important to the University community."

Class Gift

The executive committee of the graduating
class will determine the division and the
allocation of the gift, to be established between
five and seven thousand dollars, based on the
weight of the votes given each selection.

"There will be no other referendum
questions on the ballot in this election," stated
Tom Rickards, chairman of the Elections
Committee of the Student Council. 'They ill be
deferred until the April elections when all
students will be involved.'

Run off elections will take place on Tuesday
and Thursday of next week, because. "Even
though a candidate must obtain a plurality to
win he must also have a minimum of 40 per
cent of the vote, Mr. Rickards continued.

Poll locations for the College will be on the
first and second floor of Cabell Hall, outside
Wilson Hall and in Gilmer Hall and the new
chemistry building. Polls for the other schools
involved in the elections will be in appropriate
areas. Ballots for each school involved will be
available at a poll location on the second floor
of Newcomb Hall.