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T'''ri enough information Wednesday night to decide if Chilton could be considered a member of Airan's campaign staff, said Chris Bracey, Elections Board chairman. If the board decides Chilton was a member of Airan's staff, the board could disqualify her and postpone the run-off election. Airan said that Chilton was not a member of her staff and that she did not know he had worked at the site. "I had no prior knowledge that he would be at the table handling ballots," she said. "He has an opinion, just like anybody else, and yes, he supports me," Airan said.

Chilton sent a letter endorsing Airan to The Daily Tar Heel. See AIRAN, page 3 By Steve Politi University Editor A hearing against the leading student body president candidate will continue tomorrow as Elections Board members debate whether the role of a Rashmi Airan supporter at an election poll site should result in her disqualification. The complaint, filed by former student body president candidate Mark Bibbs and a member of his campaign staff, Ruffin Poole, was heard by the board late Wednesday night. Bibbs and Poole charged that Mark Chilton, who publicly supported Airan, compromised the election by helping sort votes at the Student Union poll site Tuesday. The Elections Board did not have DTHGnnt rtalvmcn DTH editor selection approved along with other 3 referendums Elections Board Chairman Chris Bracey (standing) helps Elections Board members hand sort and tally ballots for the Student Congress races late Tuesday night Bracey denies charges of election chaos the outcome." Charles Streeter won the election with 1505 votes to Davis' 420.

But Davis disagreed. "The fact that Granville residents couldn't vote invalidates the election," she said. "But this is typical of the Elections Board." Davis said she did not know if she would contest the election's results or file a formal complaint. Some juniors complained that they were not able to vote for senior class officers at the Health Sciences Library poll site. Dawna Harrison, a junior from candidates or candidates they supported by turning minor inconsistencies into major issues." Bracey confirmed that some off-campus residents had been allowed to cast RHA ballots at the Union, a problem that was remedied early in the voting.

"I heard about it and dealt with it shortly after 12 (when the polls opened)," he said. "What can I do? I don't know who put ballots in the box." These initial problems had no affect on the RHA race, Bracey said. "I don't think it made a significant difference in By Steve Politi University Editor The upcoming run-off for The Daily Tar Heel editor candidates will be the last time an all-campus election will decide who takes over the newspaper's top post. Voters passed a referendum Tuesday to change the election process for DTH editor to a committee selection process. The DTH editor had been elected for the past 68 years, said Ruffin Hall, DTH Board of Directors president.

The referendum passed by a 752 to Student activists protest Moore's re-election, claim graduate signature invalidates petition Public housing residents favor regulation evicting tenants arrested for drugs 417 vote. Hall said the referendum would allow the DTH to have a more qualified base to select its editor. "The fact that you still have a body dominated by non-DTH, at-Iarge students insists a very strong student voice in the process," he said. "What's important is that it's an educated and informed student voice." The committee will comprise three DTH staff members, chosen by the staff, and eight at-Iarge student members. See REFERENDUMS, page 3 Kathleen Robeson, 39, public housing development youth director, said the area's safety was marred by drug-related crime.

"This is no place to raise kids," she said. "I spend a lot of time with the young people educating them about drugs, about what to do when they see (hypodermic) needles." Robeson has lived with her three daughters and her granddaughter in a public housing development for nearly three years. "I just don't trust this area," she said. See EVICTION, page 2 wmmmMm By Bonnie Rochman Assistant University Editor Two University students are contesting Speaker Tim Moore's re-election to Student Congress on the grounds that some of the 25 signatures on his election petition were illegitimate. Dana Lumsden, a senior from Boston, said he and Erik Ose, a junior from Bristol, R.I., had noted two discrepancies in Moore's petition.

"People who sign the petition must put down their full name, address and phone number, and a couple of Tim's folks didn't even do that. "And there's a man on Tim's petition who is a graduate student, and graduate students cannot be represented by undergraduates as stated by the Student By Jennifer Brett Staff Writer Chapel Hill public housing residents support the adoption of federal amendments that would require residents arrested for drug-related crimes in or near their neighborhoods to be evicted from public housing. Monday night. Chapel Hill Town Council members delayed implementation of the amendments because of ambiguous language in the amendments. Area residents said the town needed to approve the legislation to clean up their neighborhoods.

Raleigh, said there were no senior class ballots at the library site, so she did not get to vote for those positions. "I called Student Affairs and they told me to come back, but I couldn't because I live off-campus, and I can't make a special trip," she said. "They shouldn't have broadcast that you can vote there if you can't. "If the vote was very close, my vote could have made a difference." The reduction of poll sites created See ELECTIONS, page 2 man, said the point was moot because the petitions already had been approved. He said he had randomly checked the petitions to make sure they were valid.

Lumsden and Ose missed the deadline, which is 48 hours from when the petitions are turned in, to lodge their complaint, Bracey said. Bracey said did not have time to look into the matter further. Lumsden said the oversight was not Bracey 's fault. "Chris was dealing with so many petitions and operating under the assumption that number one, people will not be petty," Lumsden said. "Speaker Moore is a petty person, See PETTnON, page 2 Brown has said he would increase the country's use of water, solar and wind power while cutting back on the use of nuclear and oil-powered energy, Newman said.

Brown's other proposals include: Changing the tax system to charge all citizens a flat 13-percent rate and businesses a 13-percent adjusted rate. Limiting elected political officials to one extended term. Supporting abortion rights. Building a high-speed train system. Abolishing the Department of Education and giving more money to the states to improve classroom instruction.

Re-establishing a Civil Conservation Corps that would provide jobs for millions of Americans. After a lifetime of voting with the GOP, Newman left the Republican Party to join Brown's campaign. "He's an idealist. He's an extremely intelligent man and one who's honest. 1 don't think you can point to too many presidents and say that," Newman said.

By Ashley Fogle Assistant University Editor Charges of improper voting, ballot shortages and delays contributed to election-night confusion, but "minor inconsistencies" should not have affected the election's outcome, an Elections Board official said. Jennifer Davis, the unsuccessful write-in candidate for Residence Hall Association president, said students at least two poll sites were not allowed to vote in the RHA election. "At the Granville poll site, residents were told that they couldn't vote for RHA," she said. "And at the Union, Granville residents also were told they could not vote for RHA. I have friends that live in Granville that tried to vote." All on-campus students, including residents of Granville Towers, are eligible to vote for RHA president.

Off-campus students are not permitted to cast ballots in the RHA race. But Davis said off-campus students were given RHA ballots for at least one hour at the Student Union poll site Tuesday. She said she knew several off-campus students who cast ballots in the election. "In the middle (Elections Board Chairman) Chris Bracey found it and changed it." But Bracey said Granville residents had been allowed to vote for the RHA presidency. "A lot of rumors were started by people working for the campaigns to undermine the process," he said.

"They obviously were trying to help write-in By Pete Simpkinson Staff Writer What Democratic presidential candidate Jerry Brown calls his "insurgent campaign to take back America" for the people has yet to take the United States or New Hampshire by storm. In waging his campaign against a government he claims is corrupted by special interests. Brown has refused to accept any campaign donation exceeding $100. "We're not blitzing the country with millions or hundreds of thousands of dollars with ads on TV," said Lee Newman, a Brown press secretary. "Maybe we wouldn't want to if we could." With the Feb.

18 New Hampshire primary less than a week away. Brown has raised more than $1 million for his campaign. But the former California governor still trails other Democratic hopefuls by a wide financial margin. Brown will need to double his current percentage of support among New Hampshire voters to claim success in California dreamin': Brown failing to achieve popularity among '90s voters (Government) Code, so that makes one of Tim's signatures invalid," Lumsden said. "Therefore, there are only 24, not 25 signatures hence his position on the ballot is invalid." Tim Moore Moore said he thought the signature in question was legitimate.

"My understanding is that the person is a senior," he said. "Lumsden and Ose are alleging he's a graduate student. But the petitions were approved, and I don't see it as an issue." Chris Bracey, Elections Board chair- Hampshire polls. Although the former California governor trails the front-runners by a substantial margin, Newman said projections that Brown was fighting an uphill battle were misconceptions. "We came from nowhere, and now we're in a dead heat" with Democratic candidates Tom Harkin and Bob Kerrey, Newman said.

"We're Hoping to finish in third place with a little luck." Kamieniecki said Brown's political platform should prove very attractive to a lot of liberal Democrats or to Democrats unhappy with the way the party is going. But Brown falls into the category of an unelectable candidate because of his negative image among mainstream Democrats, he said. Radical platform ideas and Brown's flamboyant behavior during his terms as governor earned the Californian such titles as "Governor Moonbeam" and "the Granola Candidate." But Brown's stance on ecological issues and his reputation as being tough on crime may increase his popularity among younger voters. 1. 1 iii.iii niRnapm TV1" -1 II Presidential Campaign 992 Gf Gelif ornia m3ifgB mm Born: April 7, 1938 in San Francisco.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Latin and Greek from University of California, 1961; Law Degree from Yale Law School, 1964. Career: Private law practice, 1965-1970 and 1983-1991; California secretary of state, 1971-1975; California governor, 1975-1983; chairman, California Democratic Party, 1989-1991. Family: Never married. Ulj limz? the nation's first primary, said Sheldon Kam ieniecki, an associate professor and vice chairman of the political science department at the University of Southern California. "I would say (he needs) 20 percent," Kamieniecki said.

"I doubt he'll get that. He'll probably drop out shortly or continue on a shoestring budget. At 10 to 15 percent, he might stay a Jonathan Valdez, an assistant political science professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, said Brown would not fold up camp as soon as results emerged from the New Hampshire primary. "I think he'll stick around longer than a month," Valdez said. Brown has garnered roughly 10 percent of voters' support in the latest New Chris Bracey, "This democracy and Ms government is controlled not by the American people but by those uiho are bringing it Awn." Jerry Brawn Brown, an idealistic throwback to the days of free love and peace protests, has failed in his efforts to attract another generation of "granolas" to the polls.

The election itself ran quite Elections Board chairman.