Tuesday, April 14, 2009
After a lengthier discussion than in years past, Paul Hefferon, Overland Park senior and Student Athlete Advisory Committee senator, said that SAAC endorsed United Students for this week’s Student Senate elections.
SAAC gathered in Hadl Auditorium located in the Wagnon Student Athlete Center to host a town hall meeting Monday night, in which presidential and vice presidential candidates from Envision and United Students attended.
“We felt like both coalitions had really strong platforms and discussed the merits of both coalitions,” Hefferon said. “We thought it was important for SAAC to come out and endorse a coalition.”
Candidates from Students of Liberty and Free State were absent from the meeting.
In two of the past three years, SAAC has held the town hall meeting and gone public with their endorsement of KUnited three years ago and United Students last year.
Hefferon said in addition to endorsing a coalition, it was also positive to see two athletes running with opposing coalitions. Mackenzie Abernathy, Plano, Texas, freshman and track and field athlete is running with Envision, while Darrell Stuckey, Kansas City, Kan., senior and football player is running with United Students.
Assistant athletics director Mike Harrity said it was great because the reason candidates started coming to the town hall meeting was because they realized what a powerful voting block student athletes were.
Online voting will be open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Wednesday, as well as 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday.
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SAAC endorses United Students
why? doesn't a vote for US mean taking money away from athletics by decreasing the cost of the sports pass and adding more student seats in allen fieldhouse? oh no, what will athletics do? wait, those two things will NEVER happen, looks like athletics gets to keep it's money and once again, empty promises made.
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