\% The Daily Collegian Published independently by students at Penn State RAGLAND TAKES THE CROWN •a- n i j Andrew Dunheimer/Collegian Chr ' st !®" Ra S |and celebrates his victory as UPUA president while being swarmed by supporters including his running mate Colleen Smith, right, in the HUB-Robeson Center on Wednesday night. There was a period in my life when I didn't think I could get to this point," Ragland said after the announcement. The Ragland-Smith ticket won 4,431 votes all together. UPUA veteran sweeps election by 2-1 margin By Casey McDermott COLLEGIA'.- STAf-t WRITER When the results of the UPUA election were announced, Christian Ragland and Colleen Smith barely had time to react to their two-to-onc victory before a crowd of supporters engulfed them. The Ragland-Smith ticket -.von 4,431 votes, edging out David Adewumi and Devin Weakland's 2,258 votes. Fbr Ragland, the moment was surreal, made all the more special by the challenging times when he thought his goal of taking the top seat in the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) would never happen. “There was a period in my life QB competition cloudy remains By Andrew J. Cassavell COLLFCWi STAFF WRITER Minutes after Joe Paterno started getting peppered with questions Wednesday, he called his first meeting with reporters this spring "ridiculous." asking why they weren't outside playing golf. Just three days into spring practice only one of which was Chris Daughtry performs with his band Daughtry at the Bryce Jordan Center on Wednesday night. This was the “American Idol” finalist’s first performance at Penn State. UPUA election voter turnout Nearly 18 percent of undergraduate students voted for UPUA president. Penn State Fact when 1 didn’t think I could get to supporters. "To say that I can be this point,” he said between high- the next student body president is fives and hugs from a stream of See RAGLAND, Page 2. in full pads Paterno made it clear he is far from having any answers to Penn State’s position battles. The most important of those holes the search for Daryll Clark's replacement at quarter back is similarly unsettled, he said. Sophomores Kevin Newsome and Matt McGloin have made progress, and Paterno was Ragland received 65 percent of the votes. Write-ins legian archives Steph Witt/Collegian Joe Paterno talks to reporters at a press conference Wednesday. unsure of early-enrollee fresh man Paul Jones because he has n’t seen enough of the five-star DA announces new investigative board By Greg Galiffa COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller has created a review board to investi gate the 2005 dis appearance of former Centre County District Attorney Ray Gricar. The case has become a top pri ority for Parks Miller, who did not name mem bers of the board in her press release but stated that it is made up of several different investiga tors from Centre County. “This review board is simply an extension of my review of the case and a natural format for investigators with many years of This year’s total was 10 votes fewer than last year's. 5,936 yA,BOI * C?* 5 ff f f Kimberly Bartner/Collegian Student turnout stays on par with last year’s UPUA^r elections By Paige Minemyer COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Voter turnout for this year's stu dent government elections remained on par with last year's, which UPUA Elections Commis sion officials said they consider a success. Counting write-in votes, 6,791 students voted for the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) presidency on Wednesday, remaining close to the number of voters from last recruit from McKees Rocks. “There’s no timetable, you just See PATERNO. Page 2. experience to lend their expert ise to the ongoing investigation,” Parks Miller said in the release, adding the board members are both qualified and “personally motivated” to tackle the investi gation. Parks Miller did not respond to calls for comment by press time Wednesday. Gricar’s nephew Tony Gricar said he had a conference call with Parks Miller a few days ago and thinks the gathering of these indi viduals will “put a whole new set of eyes on the case.” Ray Gricar went missing April 15,2005. He called then-girlfriend Patty Fornicola while driving on Route 192 in his 2004 red and white Mini Cooper, according to court documents. Gricar told her he wouldn’t make it home in time to take care See BOARD, Page 2. psucollegian.com year 6,801 voters, only 10 more. The number of voters compris es 17 percent of the student body. Head Elections Commissioner Matt Lachman said the number of presidential votes was closest to See VOTERS. Page 2. Borsuk to stay leader By Caitlin Burnham COLLEGIAN STAFF WRITER Council of Commonwealth Student Governments President Nick Borsuk’s impeachment has been invalidated due to an error in counting votes, and offi- cials expect him to finish out his During a it. meeting Sat- La__, urday, the Borsuk Council of Commonwealth Student Governments (CCSG) voted to impeach Borsuk as president. But MJ Worsham, the IT repre sentative and a member of the Constitutional Review Committee, later discovered the vote was counted incorrectly with respect to the house rules. The vote was originally report ed as 26-6, which easily reached the two-thirds majority required to impeach. However, the 26-vote bloc included 6 abstaining votes, which should not have, been counted under house rules. Procedure states that when voting, the abstained votes go to the majority. However, in order to impeach Borsuk, voters needed to reach a two-thirds majority, not a simple majority. A two-thirds majority without those who abstained would be 22 votes not 20 and therefore the necessary majority was not reached, Borsuk said. See BORSUK, Page 2.
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