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              The Loyola Maroon Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 April 3, 1992 Volume 70 No. 21 Laragy wins SGA presidency by landslide Election results remain uncontested Jacques Billeaud Staff writer Not since the Spring 1991 Student Government Association sports fee referendum have Loyola students showed so much interest in student government as they did in Tuesday's and Wednesday's SGA elections. Out of the 1687 (roughly 30 percent of the enrollment) ballots cast in this week's election, Scott Laragy, first-year law student and current SGA vice president, received approximately 55 percent of the vote to win the office of SGA president, while Brady Lessard, history junior, received approximately 25 percent and Mark Holloway, communications junior, received roughly 19 percent. "1 knew I was going to be in the run-off. I didn't know I'd win straight out," Laragy said late Wednesday night, shortly after the ballots were totaled. According to an exit poll taken by the Maroon on Wednesday afternoon, many students fell that Laragy was the most qualified candidate because of his experience as senior congressperson-atlarge and vice president. \oting lineup — Good weather and a highly publicized campaign helped a record 1,687 students cast their ballots in the Student Government Association elections held Tuesday and Wednesday. /Photo by Shannon White Author speaks of poor American school system By Cole Thompson Staff writer What happens to the dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? — Langston Hughes Jonathan Kozol spoke before a full house in Nunemaker Hall Wednesday night as part of Loyola's first Student Literary Conference. The Conference was sponsored by the Loyola University Community Action Program Student-Literacy Corps and the University Programming Board. Kozol's speech came shortly after the release of his latest book. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. Kozol has also written Illiterate America and Rachel's Children. Kozol, who has dedicated his life to the betterment of public schools, graduated from Harvard in 1968 and attended Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. Kozol said that after the type of education he received, his father was disappointed that he went into social justice rather than politics. He began teaching in theßos ton public school system 28 years ago, teaching fourth grade in a "The most segregated schools in the country are in New York, home of all the former liberals...A just society would not permit this, this is absolute evil." —Johnathan Kozol, author segregated school. Some of the schools were so poor that classes were held in the gym, permanent teachers could not be afforded, and textbooks were a rarity, Kozol said. Kozol said that 28 years later, little has changed in most inner city public schools. He was fired from the Boston school system for what school administrators called "curriculum deviation" after reading the poems of Langs ton Hughes and Robert Frost to his fourth grade class. A week later, he was hired by the federal government to work on curriculum development.Kozol said that segregation in the school systems is not a thing of the past, that some inner city schools are completely black, and tend to receive a fraction of the funding that white suburban schools receive."The most segregated schools in the country are in New York City, home of all the former liberals," Kozol said. He gathered information for Savage Inequalities by visiting public schools around the country. SGA SPRING ELECTION RESULTS President Mark Holloway Scott Laragy Brady Lessard Arts and Sciences 216 285 281 Business 51 79 101 Law 11 528 3 City College 18 21 30 Music 22 20 10 TOTAL 318 933 425 Vice President Business President Erika Schwarz* Jennifer Gurak 118 Congresspersons-A t-Large M.chaeißeso 81 Ed Aucoin 670 Music President Jeff Charbonnet 768 Margaret Ann Walsh* Andre E. Dupon 749 Christy Kern""* 850 Andrcanccia Morris 636 City College President „ Daniel I. Hagmann* ** Senior Congresspcrson Arts and Sciences President Law President Jerry Collins 354 John Hernandez'" Clay Hellner 343 ""Uncontested See Election/ page 4 See Kozol / page 3 jndfnjnj