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NEWS 2 I FEB. 12, 2010

Landrieu wins mayoral race

Mayor-elect Landrieu waves to raucous crowds in Tuesday's parade. He won the election with 66 percent of the vote.

Primarywin eliminates need for run-off

Ryan Jones STAFF WRITER

Following months of eager an-ticipation, the New Orleans may-oral race came to a swift end af. ter voters elected Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu Saturday in a landslide victory against a field of five op-posing candidates.

Landrieu, a moderate Demo-crat, ran on a platform of creating more jobs, improving the poor-ly ranked public school system and pursuing crime prevention through community outreach.

Landrieu earned 66 percent of the vote with all 366 precincts reporting.

Following his victory Saturday night, Landrieu addressed his

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"We took a huge leap forward we can ｳ ｵ ｾ ｳ ｾ ･ ｳ ﾷ over a into the future today," Landrieu long period of time," Landrieu said. "The city of New Orleans said. • showed America what it takes to Other candidates included lo-rebuild a great place. We're all go- cal businessmen Troy Henry and ing together, and we're not leav- John Georges and attorney Rob ing anyone behind." Couhig, the only Republican on

Landrieu was the first non- the ballot. Henry finished second, incumbent mayor in modern bringing in 14 percent of the to-New Orleans history to be elect- tal vote. ed in the primaries. In his victo- A graduate of Loyola law ry speech, Landrieu briefly men- school. Landrieu reached out to tioned the interracial support many lofal college students to he received that propelled him distribute information concern-to his substantial margin of vie- ing the election and his agenda tory. He is the first white mayor for the city. of New Orleans since his father "We mostly went around re-Maurice "Moon" Landrieu left of- . minding people when ･ ｬ ･ ｾ ｴ ｩ ｯ ｮfice in 1978. day was, distributing really ba·

"This campaign, this elec- sic ihformation about {Landrieut tion and the future will be about so that people could investigate making sure that all the men and further and make their own deCi-women - white and black, , (sion; saidJeffConnell, a Landrieu

campaign employee and Tulane junior. "It was really neat just be-ｾ Ｇ ｰ ｡ ｲ ｴ cf a process and getting people to vote."

Tulane University Col-lege Democrats President Sam Richard speculated as to why Landricu won by such a signifi-cant margin.

"First of all, I was surprised that he won by so much; Rich-ard said. -He was a latecomer to the field of candidates, and I think voters were just waiting for someone with the right combi-nation of experience and name recognition:'

Landrieu previously served 16 years in the Louisiana House .of Representatives and had been serving as lieutenant governor since 2003. He was defeated by incumbent mayor Ray Nagin in the 2006 New Orleans mayoral elections. '

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"Even if any infractions had gone through, it wouldn't have affected it much; he said. "It's hard to compete with Bland-on. He's had his heart set on this since he got to Tulane:'

David said that he was hap-py the campaign came down to votes instead of campaign penalties.

"[I) didn't think the campaign would get like that," David said. About 1,500 students voted in this year's election. More than 1,600 voted in last year's election, in which seven graduate and un-dergraduate candidates ran for theposition,whichoverseesboth Undergraduate Student Govern-ment and the Graduate and Pro-fessional Student Association. David said thatASB adviserJered Bocage informed him of the re-sultsaround6:30p.m.Wednesday. "It was surreal; David said. "It hasn't sunk in [that I won) yet." Current ASB President Tim Clinton said he was pleased with the results of the election. -[Blandon] was the most quali-fied candidate and has certain-ly won over a large portion of the student body; Clinton said. "I look forward to another pos-itive year for the Associated Student Body and I know that Blandon will serve the entire Tulane campus extremely well.· David will not begin serving as ASB president until March 22, but he said he is beginning to pri-oritize what he wants to do while in office, including introducing legislation to establish positions for graduate and undergraduate chiefs of staff He said he plans to focus on making ASB more transparent for students and to unite USG and GAPSA more. David said that he wants to ensure that ASB takes stu-dents' input into consider-ation in his plans as president. -You never know what's going to happen, so you just have to wait and see; he said. ·1 refuse to set an agenda without seeing how peoplefeee

Iranian government celebrates the 31st anniversary of the Is-lamic Republic as police ､ ｾ ｳ ｨwith protestors Iranian President Malunoud Ah· madinejad addressed hundreds of thousands of people gathered at Azadi Square in Tehran yesterday to mark the 31st anniversary of the Islamic state. In his address, Ahma-dinejad reaffirmed Iran's nuclear ambitions and said the state would soon triple its daily production of low-enriched uranium. Opposition sources said police attacked former President Mohammad Khatami and reformist Mehdi Karroubi on their way to the rally.

lWo prominent Sunni p0liti-cians banned from upcoming Iraqi election An Iraqi election committee la-beled lawmakers Saleh al-Mutlak and Dhafir al-Ani, and 500 other politicians, as sympathetic to Sad-dam ｈ ｾ ｳ Baath Party Wednes-day. Under Iraqi law, those associ-ated with the Baath Party. which oppressed Shiites and Kurds for decades, cannot participate in the March parliamentary election. Two Shiite politicians headed the elec-tion committee, sparking fears of renewed sectarian violence this election ·season.

Yemen declares peace treaty with Shiite rebels Yemeni authorities declared a peace treaty with northern rebels yesterday, putting an end to clash-es that have distracted the gov-ernment since 2004. While the northern conflict may now dimin-ish, Yemen must still face the con-sequences of southern separatist movements and emerging al-Qaeda militants. The northern rebels ac-cepted a number of conditions, in-cluding a pledge to refrain from at-tacking its northern neighbor Sau-di Arabia.

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students to use dining dollars off campus

Caitlin Conley ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Students will be able use their dining dollars at select off-campus locations starting next seme ter as part of an overhaul of the meal plan S\'Stem. · The new system will eliminate

Wave Bucks and offer a wider and more flexible range of plans.

"It's about freedom more than anything." said David Gray. a mem-ber of the Dining Services Student Advisory Board. -we're no longer limited to the Lavin-Bernick Center or: Bruff They are good places. but you do get tired of eating the same things over and over agam.·

Though the list of off-campus dining options has not been final-ized, Dining Services is looking at 25 locations, including Felipe's, Camellia Grill, Reginelli's, Whole Foods and the Dough Bowl. The Dining Services Student Advisory Board will narrow the list to 15.

-we1I work with all the top 15 venues that sign ｯ ｮ ｾ said Lisa 'or-ris, associate director dining and vending services.

Dining services will contact venues will be contacted later this

spring. and students will be able to use their off-campus dollars start-ing this September.

•tots of us are very eager to have the wider variety of choices, but its also good for the Tulane commu-nity to have stronger relationships with off-campus vendors,· Gray said. "Students will find new favor-ite places:'

The new system will also re-vamp on-campus options and pric-es. Almost all freshmen and sopho-more dining plans will cost $2,275 beginning next fall. Each plan has four components: a set number of weekly meals at Bruft a limited number of Bruff meals that can be used at any time during the sanes-ter, on-campus dining dollars and off-campus dining dollars. Each meal plan combines these four op-tions in different ways.

The seven junior and se-nior meal plans range from $1,450 to $1,650 and also com-bine the weekly Bruff meals, flex-ible meals and dining dollars. The new system is slightly more ex-pensive than the current one. The standard freshman and sophomore options will cost 4.5 percent more than the most ･ ｸ ｰ ･ ｮ ｳ ｩ ｶ ｾ current option.

·1 think it's a worthwhile trade of(' sophomore Kaitlin Splett said. ·Bruff is sort of easy to get tired of; and it has some quality issues. It's

good to give people a wider variety of options'.'

Students will also be able to add to their on and off-campus dining dollars in 100 increments ft any point during the semester. Loyola will continue to accept Bruff swipes at the Orleans Room and on-cam-pus dining dollars at other Loyola locations.

Norris said the biggest hurdle in instituting the new plan is upgrad-ing the university ID card system to allow ID cards to be used secure-ly off campus. University IDs cur-rently have sensitive data. includ-ing social security numbers, stored on them.

"We couldn't take anything with the social security number on it off-campus because of issues ofidenti-ty theft.. 'orris said. ·we are in the process of upgrading the system:'

The upgrades have been a chal-lenge because the campus nms on a number of different ID card sys-tems. The Pharos print system. the Reily Center, Bruff and the down-town campus all need to be individ-ually upgraded. Once the changes have been made and sb.ldents are is&Ied new ID cards, the meal plan · can go into effect.

".As with any new ｾ there might be some bumps and bruis-es; Gray said. "But lots of us are re-ally eager to have this expanded freedom.·

ASB proposes Hardy memorial Student leaders want to honor memory of Granny Cart Lady

Maxwell Coll ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

The Associated Student Body will propose the construction of a memorial in honor of Martha Hardy. known to many on campus as Granny Cart Lady.

Hardy, who passed away Dec. 9 at the age of91, became an icon-ic figure at Tulane University through her persistent education-al ambitions and frequent inter-actions with the community.

Associated Student Body Pres-ident Tim Clinton said a memori-al honoring Hardy would provide the university with a lasting tradi-tion, something that he said Tu-lane currently lacks.

"Other universities have a lot of traditions around cam-

pus that give a lot of character to the school; Clinton said. ·Mar-tha [Hardy} was clearly an iconic character on this campus, and a small memorial would help keep that spirit alive:'

George Wendt, president of the Graduate and Profession-al Student Association, said his personal experience with Har-dy represents one way in which she was able to touch the Tulane community.

"When I first got to Tulane for graduate school, I saw her sit-ting at the [Lavin-Bernick Cen-ter] with her feet up on the chair, seeming unbelievably at home; Wendt said. "It made me feel a lit-tle bit at home as well. I hope one day we can all feel as comfortable as she did at Tulane:'

Undergraduate Student Gov-ernment President Donald "Ratchet" Leverson said Hardy symbolized a drive to learn that students should hope to embody

during their academic careers. ·she carted every day to cam-

pus, walking bloc.ks and blocks trying to learn; Leverson said. "Her eagerness and fire is some-thing I hope to one day have. This is one of those things that is unit-ing classes and bringing the uni-versity together:'

Clinton said while the proposal for the memorial is not finalized, his current prediction includes a plaque with Hardy's name. While many on campus refer to her as Granny Cart Lady, Clinton said it is important to remember Hardy was a part of a local family.

•[Hardy] was a part of some-one's family, and I don't want to encourage students to disrespect that.• Clinton said. "I think it's important to partially leave the memorial up to her family, ｾ ｵ ｴ a plaque with her name is what will most likely be proposed. We don't have enough funds to get a bronze ｳ ｴ ｡ ｴ ｵ ･ ｾ