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              THE LOYOLA MAROON VOLUME 66, NO. 23 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70118 APRIL 15, 1988 Students pick Caniglia to lead SGA By Robert Landry Staff writer Jason Caniglia, communications/political science sophomore, defeated David Vandersand, management/marketing freshman, in the race for Student Government Association president April 12- 13. Caniglia won with 401 votes, receiving 55.8 percent of the total votes. Vandersand, with 318 votes, received 44.2 percent According to current SGA President Michele Barrere, 883 students voted in this year's election. Last year 1,197 students voted. There are 4,666 undergraduate and graduate students and 660 law school students enrolled at Loyola. "I think if the candidates had campaigned more, there would have been a better turnout," Barrere said. Caniglia said his platform of academic reform would remain one of his chief goals during his term as president. "I want to try to get the library built as soon as possible," Caniglia continued. "And I want to make sure that the library meets the needs of the students." The results of the vice presidential election remain undecided. A run-off will be held between Leonard Lewis, law school freshman, and Raymond Waguespack, City College communications sophomore. Lewis received 37.4 percent of the vote, while Waguespack received 31.5 percent. In third place was Dartanian Thomas, political science sophomore, with 31.1 percent. According to Barrere, not all of the votes were able to be separated into the individual colleges because there were not enough voting machines to do so. This was the first time in at least five years that voting machines were used, Barrere said. Problems arose when the voting machine designated for Arts and Sciences students broke. According to Thomas, current congressperson-at-large, voters were turned away. "Yes, it very much so interfered with the voting process," Thomas said. ■ According to Thomas, this mishap could have had drastic effects on his and others' campaigns. After the first vote count, Waguespack and Thomas were tied with 267 votes each, trailing Lewis with 320 votes. When the votes were re-counted, the totals were Lewis with 321, Waguespack with 270 and Thomas with 269. College students have busy schedules and may not return to vote if turned away the first time, Thomas said. According to Thomas, the outcome of the vice presidential election may have been different had the machines not broken.Only 162 law school students voted for president, Barrere said. Vandersand led with 100 votes to Caniglia's 62. Law school students cast 218 votes for vice president. Lewis earned 162, Thomas earned 37 and Waguespack, 19. Of 162 city college students voting in the vice president's race, Waguespack re- Jason Caniglia Wins 55.8 percent of student vote ceived 148, Thomas received 12 and Lewis, only 2. "Waguespack made up everything with Community addresses causes, victims of rape By Chris Doyle News Editor CONFRONTING RAPE Last year there were 15 cases of reported rape in the Uptown area, and so far this year, there have been six, according to Capt. John Hughes, commander of public affairs for the New Orleans Police Department. SgL Michael Ellington, commander of the rape section for the NOPD, said roughly 40 percent of the cases his department handles are incidents of stranger rape, where the victim does not know the attacker. He cautioned, however, that articles on acquaintance rape indicate that those types of rapes are the ones that most often go unreported. "At a university you would expect to find more aquaintance rape than stranger rape," said Chris Bogar, counselor for the Counseling, Career Development and Placement Center. Bogar cited a. 19§5 study by Dr. Mary P. Koss which found that 84 percent of all college women raped knew their assailants, and 57 percent were dates. Koss's study involved a national sample of 6,159 persons at 32 instiutions. At Loyola a rape task force was formed in the Fall 1986 to address the rape at Loyola. Under Bogar's direction, the task force has produced a brochure and initiated programming.In addition, Bogar and Libby Tisdell, associate campus minister, have started a support group for sexually abused victims.The task force is scheduled to wrap up its work by the end of this semester, and its responsibilities will be absorbed into the existing structure of the university, according to Vincent P. Knipfing, vice president for Student Affairs. Tisdell said she deals with roughly four to six rape victims a year who have been raped within the past two years. According to Tisdell, some victims ' ; !■ ~„ ..,. •-,i,:)...1T1f, C :,P^ty:ftlatY;P9gnaQ See Elections/ page 4 ■--... ■'.-..'.. 5 INSIDE THIS WEE4C3H| Smi|y and Drinks