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UCSU election wrap-up
Close vote makes The Class Act
next year's new tri-executive team
Senior Jessica Langfeldt and sophomore Ashley Nakagawa, both of the Class Act ticket, chalk for
thier UCSU campaign outside the UMC early Tuesday, April 11.
Local opinion on immigration law divided, strong
Bridget Blanning
Staff Writer
She walked for a day and
night through the mountains with
her two children, ages 4 and 8.
They had no money for food.
The kids looked longingly at a
McDonaldʼs as they passed by,
unable to ignore the savory smells.
In the mountains, they crossed
paths with animals of all sorts, ani-
mals they had never seen before.
She was more scared than she had
been crossing the border.
The year was 1994, and the
goal was to come to Colorado
by illegally crossing from Mexico
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For the students, by the students.
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“In Mexico we didnʼt have
jobs,” said Laura, whose name
has been changed at her request.
“I wanted to provide my kids with
a better life,” she said during an
interview conducted in Spanish.
As politicians in the U.S.
Senate continue to discuss immi-
gration in search of a bill they can
agree on, the people of Boulder
and surrounding areas are divided
on the issue as well. The recent
proposals include more border
security, a guest-worker program,
a legalization process, and penal-
ties for employing an illegal immi-
grant.
Fred Elbel of Defend Colorado
Now, an initiative to deny illegal
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immigrants in Colorado services
that the federal government does
not mandate, said the number of
illegal immigrants entering the
United States is “a problem of
crisis proportions.”
“I think weʼd be insane if we
didnʼt stop it,” he said, adding that
the potential consequences include
“national disintegration.”
Federico Rangel, however, an
education major and advisor for El
Movimiento Estudiantil Xican@
de Aztlán (M.E.X.A.) and United
Mexican American Students
(UMAS), said immigration is not
a concern, much less a crisis.
“I would have to say that
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Bonnie Holladay
Staff Writer
In the largest voter turnout in
the University of Colorado Student
Union election history, CU students
voted the Class Act ticket into posi-
tion as tri-executive officers.
A total of 6,844 people voted.
Four hours before the polls closed
on Friday, the year 2000 turnout of
6,274 had been exceeded, future
Tri-Executive Charles Johnson
said. The Class Act executive tick-
et of Andrew Aitchison, Ashley
Nakagawa and Charles Johnson
received a preliminary total of 2,783
votes, which exceeded Marvelʼs
preliminary count by 131.
All three of the Class Act
candidates running for UCSU
Representatives at Large, a posi-
tion within the legislative branch
of UCSU, won, as did Megan
Canon, who ran with The Fantastic
Four as part of the Marvel ticket.
There were five referendums
on the ballot regarding additional
money being allocated to Illiterate
Seniors Mireyda Juarez and Ana Sanchez, both legal immigrants
from Mexico, chat outside the UMC Wednesday, April 12.
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Magazine, CU Crew, Amnesty
International, Sky Ride and The
Speech and Debate Team. All of
the referenda on the ballot passed.
The results, which were
announced shortly after 8 p.m. on
Friday, are preliminary and can be
contested for up to five days after
the initial announcement, Election
Commissioner Corey Fitze said.
A few hours before the polls
closed, future Tri-Executives
Aitchison and Johnson sank into
the leather chairs of the Sigma Phi
Epsilon sitting room. Johnson said
that he was about to send more e-
mails and make more phone calls
asking people to vote. Aitchison,
in addition to campaigning, had to
do a paper for a class. He admitted
that it had been a hectic day.
Thirty minutes after he found
out he had won, Aitchison said
that he was still overwhelmed with
excitement.
“I am elated. This is the best
feeling. I canʼt wait to have this
opportunity. I'm ready to step up,"
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