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              loyola maroon April 6,1973  VoI.XLIX No. 23 Initial count shows DeVoto on top by TARA LEBLANC Record turnout produces slim margin The largest voter turn-out in Loyola history was decided by the slimmest margin in any Student Government Association presidential election to date. On Tuesday night Bob DeVoto, A&S freshman, picked up 656 votes, two votes more than 50 percent plus one neeced for leletion. John Coselli, A&S junior, jgarnered 572 out of a total voter turn-out lof 1305 ballots. Maroon endorsee Mary 'Hull, law school junior, received 69 of the 77 write-in votes for the SGA presidential ■seat. Ms. Hull went on to win the vice-presidential seat by a margin of close of 200 votes. With 654 votes needed for election, Ms. Hull received 770 votes, 153 votes more than her opponent, A&S junior Mary Ellen Schoenberger. The results fluctuated as the different college delegations were counted, and the moods of the talliers fluctuated with the votes. As 3:30 a.m. rolled past and the end of the tallying still wasn't in sight, the excitement and tension rose with the realization that the race was extremely close. Yet, even real excitement began to lose way to sheer exhaustion by the time the ninth straight hour of recording ballots rolled around. LAW SCHOOL TALLY The law school ballots were tabulated forst with the SGA presidential results as follows: out of 316 ballots, DeVotto received 227 votes; Coselli, 48; and Ms. Hull, as a write-in candidate, recieved 21 votes with one ballot being invalidated. In the vice presidential race, Ms. Hull received 298 votes; Ms. Schoenberger, 12; and DeVoto, as a write-in candidate, received 1 vote with one ballot being invalid. In the race for law school president, JC ry Woods, the unopposed candidate, received 112 votes more than the necessary 136 votes. There were 21 write-in candidates receiving a total of 27 votes. The law school representative race, with four seates to be filled, went to Rex Barbas, Judy deßoisblanc, Greg Hosmer, and Danny Hynes with 235, 264,233, and 227 votes respectively. The votes were being tabulated in two separate rooms in the Danna Center, the SGA office in the basement and Rooms 2 BC on the second floor. Voices of the callers started to go after the tabulations of the law school delegation in the basement and one-third of the A&S votes had been tabulated. T .e tabulations of the A&S races mo y-d.. slowly due to the list of rep esentatives to be claculated from each ballot. Both the law school and City College ballots had been completed in the basement before final tallies were received from the A&S races. A&S TALLY The final tallies for A&S were 310 votes for Coselli, 130 votes tor Devoto, 34 write-in votes for Ms. Hull and three other write-in votes for Coselli. Ms. Schoenberger came out on tope of the A&S tally for SGA vice president with a total of 299 votes. Ms. Hull received' 154 of the 495 votes cast in A&S for vice president. The two write-in candidates, DeVoto and Coselli, received 12 and 3 votes respectively. Peggy Molony ran away with the presidency of the A&S delegation as an unopposed candidate with 324 votes. There were 22 write-in candidates for A&S delegation president accounting for 33 votes. Five A&S junior/senior representatives were elected: Kathleen Cresson with 286 votes; Mary Ann Darr with 226 votes; Jo Ann Kotter with 210' votes. One hundred seventy-six votes were needed for election. There were 13 write-in votes for representative with a total of 133 votes. Four sophomore representatives were voted into the SGA: Kim Bosworth with 251 votes; Carol Evans with 271 votes; Celeste Ford wih 247 votes; and Michael O'Brien with 206 votes. The sophomore rep race had a total of 6 write-in votes divided among four candidates. By the time the tallies for A&S were in, a restrained comoradie had settled upon the upstairs "election central." Time was forging the personalities into one machine to complete the job, soon. CITY COLLEGE TALLY The City College race went as follows: in the SGA presidential race, DeVotto received 215 votes; Coselli, 49 votes; Ms. Hull, as a write-in candidate received 4 votes; and Fred Cannon, another write-in candidate received 1 vote with 1 ballot being invalid. The vice-presidential candidates Ms. Hull and Ms. Schoenberger received 219 and 49 votes respectively. Unopposed candidates for City College delegation president Jim Vance received 250 votes. However, there were 5 write-in candidates accounting for 5 votes with one ballot being invalid. Out of the nine candidates vying for the eight representative seats for City College, the following were elected: Judy Bergamo, Danial DeNoux, Michael Haggerty, Lawrence McClaflin, Wayne Ory, Erwin Pemberton, Larry Reeves, and Karl Schmidt. By this time the beer cans were stacked up in both election areas and ashtrays had long past been filled to overflowing. At least one caller resorted to Sucrets hoping to keep his voice going until the last vote had been tallied. Eyes were blurring and the lines denoting each candidate's space on the official tally sheets were beginning to water. Two colleges were left to be tabulated, music school and business administration. MUSIC SCHOOL TALLY The "basement team "took the music school ballots and the "second floor crew" took business administration. The results in music school showed that DeVoto received 53 of the 103 votes cast in music school; Coselli received 43 music school votes; Ms. Hull, again as a write-in candidate received 5 votes, with two invalid ballots. The SGA vice presidential race saw Ms. Hull receiving 60 votes; Ms. Schoenberger, 39 and DeVoto as a write-in candidate for vice president received 1 vote. BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Upstairs, the business administration results showed Coselli as the leader with 122 votes to DeVoto's 31 votes. Ms. Hull once again received 5 wriet-in votes. Vice-presidential returns in business administration showed Ms. Schoenberger receiving 118 votes, Ms. Hull, 39 votes, and DeVoto as a write-in, 1 vote. Two junior/senior representatives were ,elected in business administration: Doug Dawes with 80 votes, and Jerry Valli with 115 votes. There were six write-in candidates for junior/senior representative Bill Brennan was elected with a total of 132 votes. A write-in vote in the business administration presidency race will cause a run-off to be held next Monday and Tuesday between Jerry Davis, who received 76 votes in the primary and write-in candidate Nancy Ross who received 52 votes. A total of 85 votes are needed to gain the seat of business administration president. By the time all official tallies had been recorded and the election committee had declared the election closed the clock in the SGA office showed 4:45 a.m. and the approximately 15 people still gathered could offer only weak smiles and force their dragging feet to carry them to the nearest resting place. Bob DeVoto Bulletin A recount of the votes cast for the presidential position of the Student Government Association proved once and for all that Bob DeVoto surpassed the magic number 654. - The results of the election were so close on Tuesday evening and the counting process so long and tedious that runner-up John Coselli requested a recound when it was announced that DeVoto had won by two votes. DeVoto's victory mark the first time in SGA history that the highest position in student politics will be held by a sophomore. DeVoto's running mate, Mary Hull, a law school junior, captured the vice-presidential race by more than ISO votes over her opponent Mary Ellen Schoenberger. The ninth hour: Bob Ray hawk and Pat Beau champ count 'em out Elections split the colleges p. 5 Features: Dr. Sandra Rosenthal. p. 9 Reviews: N.O. jazz fest p. 10 Conclusion of Field House series..... p. 12