The Towerlight, April 25, 2002

tl20020425-000 "The Toillerilighb Baltimore's #1 College Paper - Published Twice-Weekly - www.thetowerlight.com Thursday, 4/25/02 I Towson rapist sentenced to life 3 TU 'Fools' around with final show 9 Tigers take sixth at CAA finals Hunt stacks up with new signees 16 Departments News 3 Campus Briefs 6 Nation 7 Police Blotter 7 Arts 9 The High Road 10 Comics & Comics 11 Sports 15 In This Corner 15 Classifieds 20 Opinion 22 Renaissance sweeps election Millennium loses after three years in office; second time a charm for Prez-Elect Sharp Chris Terry The Towerlight Amid an anxious crowd in the Patuxent Room Tuesday the SGA Election Commission announced the results of this year's election, with the complete 14-member Renaissance ticket and three Millennium senators winning the 17 elected positions. Despite increased advertising and promotional efforts by the Election Commission, including free ice cream, giveaways and chances to win gift certificates, just 1,810 stu-dents cast their votes � 10 fewer than last year. Out of the 1,810 total voters, 450 chose to build their own ticket, while the rest voted for an entire ticket. Renaissance received 819 ticket votes compared to Millennium's 541. SGA President-Elect Jon Sharp said he was relieved that the Renaissance ticket wasn't broken up. ""I'm real glad that the whole team got in,"" Sharp said. ""I was pretty nervous that it was going to be split. I had heard all week that people were split, so I'm really happy that we're going to represent the school as a whole ticket."" Millennium presidential candi-date Mark Crusante said that despite the Renaissance victory, he's pleased that Millennium candi-dates will fill the three senatorial positions not accounted for by the Renaissance ticket. ""I think they need to work with the new Renaissance people,"" the sophomore political science major said. ""We had some people elected from our party, and I know that they're going to represent our inter-ests as well."" Sharp, a junior finance major who also ran for president last year under the Renaissance party, said he thinks having several Millennium candidates in office will help generate more views outside of See ELECTION, page 5 Saul Stooge:Lice The Towerlight SGA President-Elect Jon Sharp is congratulated after Tuesday's announcement that all 14 members of the Renaissance ticket will join three senators from the Millennium party as Towson's 2002-2003 SGA officers. Today High 61 Low 45 Friday High 65 Low 40 Saturday High 63 Low 40 Sunday High 74 Low 52 Monday High 74 Low 51 "