5:01
The polls have officially closed, and all campaign tabulators have entered the polling location to get an accurate count of votes. In a matter of minutes, someone’s hopes, parent’s bank account and possibly dreams will be shattered with the upcoming news.
Exciting.
5:14
SGA President
*Taylor 877
McFadden 764
Miss Southern
*Evans 829
Taylor 818
Miss Senior
*Stieb 215
Malone 136
*=winners
5:28
Miss Southern-elect, Evans, says that she dreamed that she wouldn’t win in the run offs. How wrong she was.
“I believed I won because God let me win,” she said.
Jamal Taylor, Student Government Association president-elect, who elected NOT to attend the results announcement, said that, “It feels great,” to have won.
He hopes that “SUBR will one day become the Mecca of HBCUs.”
Welcome again to The Southern DIGEST’s blog!
Not-so-new writer slash blogger Venicia Gray, Viewpoints and Opinions Editor here, encouraging all those who haven’t yet (and WHY haven’t you?) to log in and read the blog for the BEST coverage of the 2008-2009 SGA Elections, and news on nonpublished DIGEST days.
Lately, it seems like we’ve had more of the same; a sort of deja vu during the current Spring semester. While SpringFest is visiting the ghost of Homecoming 2003 past, even the Miss Southern Revue was “out with the new, back to the old,” and All That Jazz.
After the controversial shouting match that was the run-off debate last night, I’m sure that the results of both SGA President and Miss Southern winners will be heavily anticipated.
We shall see.
Cheers until later,
VLG
The run-off debate will be tomorrow, in the Cotillion Ballroom at 6:30 p.m. Here are the results. Those in (*) will be in the run-off and those in (!) are the winner out right. Twyana Cain, SGA advisor, said that this year’s election day ran smooth and without any problems.
SGA President
* Jamal Taylor: 685
* Elyse McFadden: 547
Kyle Green: 487
SGA Vice President
! Rhodes: 1,046
Doleman: 671
Miss Southern
* Taylor: 742
* Evans: 575
Howard: 182
Jacobs: 147
Rogers: 75
Chief Justice
Stubbs: 697
! Richardson: 1,010
The polls have closed. We are sitting in the Cotillion Ballroom waiting for the numbers to be called. Who will win? I have my favorites picked out.
I want to encourage everyone who is a fulltime student here at Southern to go out and vote. I have already voted and I can report that the lines are short and everything is going smoothly. The polls close at 5 p.m. and directly after the results will be announced. Again, please go out and vote.
In another announcement, the Springfest musical guests have been released. They are Letoya Luckett—one of the former members of Destiny’s Child, Foxx—“Wipe Me Down”—and DJ Unk from the song, “Walk it Out.” The student body, of course, is not pleased with the line-up and many students are planning not to attend this year’s events.
Let’s all hope that the next SGA President and their cabinet come up with more innovative ways to entertain the students.
Welcome to the first posting of the Southern DIGEST blog. For those of you who do not know me, I am Amber R. Perry, editor-in-chief of EGO Magazine here on Southern University’s campus.
I am a senior—nongraduating—majoring in English and political science who plans to writer for the rest of her life. I spend ridiculously large amounts of time and money at Barnes and Noble, but I do read almost everything I buy.
Other than that, just ask me. And now, on to the blogs!
The purpose of blogging is double sided. First, it gives us, the staff, the opportunity to learn a new form of media. Within the past three years, blogging has gone from obscure bloggers with small fan bases to people like Perez Hilton who have reached celebrity status. Secondly, blogging gives our audience up-to-the-minute updates on events on campus and abroad.
For more info on blogging, I found this wonderful story in the New York Times about bloggers in Washington D.C. who only write about politics.
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