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Vol. 68, No. 29 Louisville, Kentucky April 18, 1996 16 Pages An Independent Student Ne~spaper Free
Election appeal released
By Amy Huffman
Staff Writer
An appeal filed against this year's SGA
election has pushed the certification of the
new SGA officers back about three weeks,
raisedissuesaboutthefairnessoftheelection
process and revealed that it is nearly impos­sible
to punish candidates who break cam­paign
rules.
To defeated Student Government Asso­ciation
presidential ·candidate Brian
Schenkenfelder, it's a matter of fairness.
Schenkenfelder says the election process is
flawed and needs to be fixed before students
will respect SGA That's why he and four of
his slate members filed an appeal against the
election, he said.
''There'sbeenthispatternof'something's
wrong in Denmark' -and in this case, the
University of Louisville," Schenkenfelder
said. "Time and time again, these kinds of
things happen. I think these complaints need
to be looked at because (the election) was
close and some of these things could have
made the difference in the election.
"When I really think about it, I do thjnk
students will come to our defense,"
Schenkenfelderadded. "I think students have
an innate sense of fairness and will say 'hey,
something was screwy with this process'."
For other people, like Assistant Director
for Student Affairs Michelle Clemons, fair­ness
is not the issue.
"Emotions are running very high,"
Oemons added. "They always do in the
elections. When you lose, you always look
for someone or something to be able to look
at and say 'that's why I lost'. But sometimes
you just lose."
But, it's not as simple as winning and
IosingforSchenkenfelderandhisslatemem­bers.
Schenkenfelder's ultimate hope is that
the student senate will vote to overturn the
election at its April 23 meeting, based on
what he claims are scores of violations by
SGA president-elect Stephen Oark and oth­ers
who campaigned with him.
''There were so many campaign viola­tions.
If you put some kind of sanction on
that, then I could end up winning the race,"
Schenkenfelder said. ''That's what I would
like to see happen. That's what I think is fair.
I'd like to see them overturn the election."
Though Schenkenfelder says there were
"at least 100 campaign violations," Annie
Brush, academic vice president-elect, said
she and the others on Oark's slate didn't do
anything wrong during the campaign.
"Of course we followed the rules," said
Brush, who is a graduate student.
(Oark was unavailable for comment, as
he was in Germany. He responded to the
allegations in a letter to the review commit­tee.
The Cardinal requested thatletter, claim­ing
it was an open record under state open
laws, but Student life officials did not re­lease
the letter.)
Oemons said she doesn't think the com­plaints
will change Clark's position as presi-dent-
elect. .
''I think a lot of the things they're upset
about is based on misinformation," she said.
"But, I think we were able to answer a lot of
their questions and put some of that to rest
when they were in the meeting (with the
review committee). I don't think anything
they've raised will result in a change in the
election results."
Whether or not Oark and his slate ''fol­lowed
the rules" is exactly what a indepen­dent
review committee, made up of two
faculty, two staff and two students, is trying
to determine. The committee met on April
15, 16 and 17 to review Schenkenfelder's
appeal. The committee will meetagainApril
19 to forward a recommendation to the
elections commission, which will then make
a recommendation to the student senate.
Oemons said the senate will have final say in
decidingwhetherthe alleged violations war­rd!
lt altering the results of the election.
Schenkenfelder'sappeallists 12 areas of
the election process which he said need to be
considered and seven specific violations
which he said were committed by Oark and
his running mates,
''This is justthestuffwe 've found so far,"
See APPEAL, Page 4
Library adntinistrator dies
By Dug Begley
Staff Writer
In his youth, Granville Bunton played
basketball, and made a reputation for his
rebounding skills at Male High School
and Western Kentucky University. When
he collapsed and died April 15 in
Crawford gym while exercising on his
lunch break, he was where he had been,
inspirit, for the last
after lunch around 1:15, but when I
walked in all these EMT's were every­where,
trying to get this guy up. I think
he was dead already."
Many people who knew Bunton in
the Library were too shaken up to talk so
soon after the incident, but staff senate
chairman Matt Landrus said the Univer­sity
has lost a great person.
"It was really shocking," Landrus
said. "The staff al-
32 years: on the
basketball court.
The six-foot­six
center aver­aged
13.1 re­bounds
his senior
year at VVestern
and still holds the
second highest re­bound
total for a
game in WKU his­tory.
"The staff always
knew him as a re­ally
nice person. He
will surely be
missed."
ways knew him as
a really nice per­son.
Hewill surely
be missed."
Bunton was the
third youngest of
six brothers, four
of whom played
- Matt Landrus
Staff Senate President
collegiate basket­ball.
After playing
with high school
stars Henry Bacon
Maybe it was a love ofbasketbaH that
led Bunton to work out nearly everyday,
according to colleagues in the Ekstrom
Library, ~here he was a personnel coor­dinator.
"I came in to shoot around with a
friend," former student Richard Powell
explained. "We were going to meet here
and Rkk Bolus, Bunton went to the
University of Tulsa. By his freshman
year he was starting for Tulsa, but in
1970 he decided to return to Kentucky
and attend Western Kentucky Univer­sity
in Bowling Green.
See BUNTON, page 4
·Community turns
out to spurn hate
By John Vickerstaff
Contributing Writer
The Ku Klux Klan might have had
bigger .hoods but, judging by numbers, U
ofLstudents, faculty
Klan in Bullitt County.
"When I was seven years old my par­ents
were at a rally for world peace. After
dark we were heading back to the farm­house.
Two screaming children came run-ning
down a
and staff have bigger
hearts.
More than 100
students and faculty
members gathered in
frontofGrawemeyer
Hall to rally for unity,
justice and equality
on April 13, the day
the Klan held a rally
in downtown Louis­ville.
The U of L
crowd listened to
short speeches, then
marched along Sec­ond
Street to·
"Many people
think white
hill. We stopped,
and a Klansman
with a shotgun
came out of the
woods." Broddus
said after· the
KJ a. n s m !In
"pelted the car"
with shotgun
blasts, the family
was finally al­lowed
to leave.
supremacy is a
sign of ign9ran,ce," ..
she said. "It isn't. It
is a well­established
political program." "Racism, sex-ism
and
Jefferson Park,
- Mary Hawkesworth
Poli-Sci Professor
homophobia
have no place in
our society. We
across from the
County Courthouse,
where they joined an even larger commu­nity
rally.
The U ofL response to the Klan was
organized by a newly-fonned student
group, Race And Gender Equality
(RAGE). The group is made up of stu­dents
from U of L, Jefferson Commu­nity
College, Bellarmine College and
several Jefferson County high schools.
S berry Wright, a junior Women's Stud­ies
major at U ofL, was the first to speak.
"I feel we're here today to unite.
We're all here today for peace. We can
celebrate our differences today,"Wright
said.
J aymz Broddus, an undergraduate stu­dent,
had a similar message. Broddus, ·
whose parents are of different races, told
the crowd of a childhood brush with the
need to find unity
and tolerance,"
Broddus said.
Phil Laemmle, a political science pro­fessor
at U of L, also had a story to tell. In
1961 Laemmle was laying pipe in south­em
Mississippi when two blacks were
lynched near his work site.
"Race, religion and gender should not
be the basis for hating people," Laemmle
said.
Mary Hawkesworth, also a Political
Science professor, emphasized the politi­cal
significance of standing up to the
Klan.
"Many people think white supremacy
is a sign of ignorance," she said. "It isn't.
It is a well-established political program."
Hawkesworth also said that white su-
See PEACE, Page 2
Above, Jeffersonville High School students Sherry Lessner, Cara
Moreland, Heather Richard, Adrian Baker huddle in the rain atthe Unity
Rally In Jefferson Square. Below, a hooded Klansman speaks to the
crowd. Police officials at the rally said the presence of 600 officers on
the scene had enboldened the Klansmen, resulting in more caustic
than usual speech. Staff Photos by Tony Matkey
Klan rallies for separation
By Dug Begley
Staff Writer
As one side marched three miles for
peace, the other side marched for sepa­ration,
shouting words of hatred in the
name of their ancestors.
In frontoftheJefferson County Court­house
on April 13, the Ku Klux Klan
exercised their Constitutional right to
assembly by holding a march and rally.
"There is no room for niggers in this
country," Melvin Walton, a Klan sup­porter,
but not a member, explained.
"The white race founded this country for
the white race. This was our land of
opportunity and they invaded it."
At the assembly, few Klansmen cos­tumed
themselves in the traditional white
robe (they were not allowed to wear the
hoods) but many Klansmen and Klan
supporters stood in the crowd yelling
their beliefs and standing by their fellow
white supremacists.
"We all gathered here because Louis­ville
is a part of the South," Harold Cox
from Logan County said. "The South is
~mr home. It is a matter of pride that we
meet here and show our support for
what's right."
Cox said that the peace rally, which
coincided with the Klan meeting, was an
See KLAN, Page 2
Cheerleaders are national champs for sixth time
" .. .....,/!.-
Photo by Nina Greipel
VIctorious U of L cheerleaders pose at Daytona Beach after winning their sixth National
Cheerleadlng Association title. The cheerleaders won the title over the Spring Break holiday.
• Team goes to
Daytona Beach and
returns with more than
a tan
By Julia Horne
Staff Writer
For this year's spring breakers,
Daytona Beach landed a group of 22 U
of L students, cheering for first place
honors. As a six-time winner of the
National Cheerleading Competition,
held this year in Daytona Beach, U ofL
cheerleaders nailed first place once again,
bringing the University national atten­tion.
This year's championship featured
the world's largest college cheerleading
competition in the world, with more
than 4,000 competitors, according to
National Cheerleading Association
spokesman, Randy Bryant. With over
110 cheerleading teams from 25 states,
U of L cheerleaders heJd there heads
high as they were awarded first place for
their performance.
Coach and former U ofLcheerleader leader Mike Ekbundit said.
James Speed said the U ofL win was not
overly surprising.
"It's very seldom to have a year that
everybody believes you won," Speed
said. "But this year it was a hands down
win. Everybody there was congratulat­ing
us for a perfect performance."
"It was an incredible feeling, the best
feeling I've ever
had, when they an-
So, what's in a cheer that creates such
heartfelt responses, spectators wonder?
According to Speed, U of L's two-and­a-
half-minute routine included jumps,
gymnastics, stunts, pyramids, and crowd
appeal.
"The Cardinal bird was a major point
in crowd appeal," Speed said.
Along with the
school's mascot,
nounced the re­sults,"
U of L
cheerleader April
Welch said.
The aftermath
of the 13th annual
Collegial National
Championship re­sulted
in celebra-
"We worked really
hard and it's a great
feeling to know it paid
off."
the crowd noticed
the props the
cheerleaders used.
"We sewed to­gether
the CARDS
flags' into one 50-
- Cheerleader
April Welch
foot flag which
took six people to
pull it up,"
tion for the Cardi-nal
cheerleaders. Although the NCA­sponsored
a party for all the squads, U of
L initially celebrated by reliving their
victory.
"The first thing we did (after win­ning)
was went back to the room and
watched ourselves on video," cheer-
Ekbundit says.
The function of the routine, Speed
continued, showed the difficulty level
and perfection judges look for.
"They also concentrate on overall
appearance, having a collegiate look,"
See CHEERLEADERS, Page 4
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