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USG exec

A FLAWLESS FINISH candidates

to debate
By Alissa Letkowski
Campus Correspondent

The presidential and vice

presidential candidates for
next year’s Ungergraduate
Student Government will face
off tomorrow in a presidential
debate.
The candidates will answer
student questions at the debate
at 7 p.m. today in the Student
Union North Lobby, located
across from the TV room.
Thomas Haggerty will
face Jason Ortiz and his
vice presidential candidate,
Amanda Stauble. Lia Albini,
Haggerty’s vice presidential
candidate, is not available for
the debate as she is currently
studying abroad through the
Semester at Sea program.
Ortiz, a 5th-semester politi-
cal science and communica-
tions major, considers himself
an activist for such issues as
the Iraq War, the environment,
student rights and a sensible
drug policy. He has lobbied in
front of crowds in Washington.
Ortiz became president of the
UConn Free Press in 2007
and is currently serving as
comptroller for USG where he
oversees budget spending.
Amanda Stauble, Ortiz’s
running mate, is an 8th-se-
mester political science major.
She is the current president
of the UConn human rights
organization Idealists United.
Stauble has also taught work-
shops to students through
the Violence Against Women
Prevention Program. She was a
co-sponsor for the Task Force
for Fiscal Responsibility and
is a member for the Students
for a Sensible Drug Policy.
Haggerty, a 4th-semester
political science major, was
a freshman class senator for
USG last year. Since then, he
served as the Student Affairs’
chairman and been involved
with “An Act Concerning the
Creation of a Task Force on
Financial Responsibility,”
which reviews USG funding
guidelines. Haggerty has also
been involved in UConn’s
sexual assault awareness
and prevention rally, the
UConn College Democrats
and the Mansfield Campus
Community Partnership. He is
RYAN SAYERS/The Daily Campus
a volunteer at GUARD Dogs.
Albini, Haggerty’s running
Renee Montgomery cuts down the net after the UConn Huskies beat the Louisville Cardinals to win the NCAA National Championship and complete a perfect season with a 39-0 record. For full coverage, see page 7.
» TWO, page 2

Police announce Former U.S. Rep Shays reflects on 21 years in D.C.

DUI checkpoints By Soheb Porbandarwala
Campus Correspondent

for Friday night Former Congressman

Christopher Shays discussed
politics in Washington at the
Dodd Center Tuesday night
UConn police will conduct sobriety checkpoints this week- in a lecture titled “Principle,
end, according to a press release from the Division of Public Politics and Leadership: The
Safety. risks and rewards of staying
Beginning during the evening hours of Friday, April 10, true and speaking honestly in
and ending in the early morning hours of Saturday, April Washington.”
11, the checkpoints will be in place in order to apprehend The talk covered everything
drunk drivers and identify seatbelt violations, as well as other from Shays’ long career to his
related motor vehicle violations. views on the current administra-
Drivers passing through the checkpoints will be briefly tion to the state of the economy.
stopped for observations of the previously mentioned viola- Shays, a Republican who
tions and may experience delays associated with the check- spent 21 years in Congress
points, which are part of an ongoing police effort to keep representing the fourth district
drunk drivers off Connecticut highways, police say. of Connecticut, was defeated MATT LIN/The Daily Campus
According to UConn Police Major Ronald Blicher, the by Democrat Jim Himes last
operation, funded by a grant the police department recently November. Shays had a moder- Former Connecticut Representative Chris Shays speaks to students about life after Washington at the Dodd Center Tuesday evening.
received from the federal government, is a “reasonably pru- ate stance on many issues and
dent” measure that must be undertaken. often collided on issues with like leadership skills that can Shays talked about the dif- “He was very true to his con-
Additional drunk driving and alcohol enforcement patrols members of his own party. be applied to our development ficulties of representing such a stituents,” said Jean Nelson,
will continue in the coming weeks. “I came in expecting to as future leaders,” said 6th-se- diverse district with the extreme events coordinator for the Dodd
hear only about politics, but mester health care management dichotomy between the social
-John Kennedy he [Shays] also talked things major Akina Warner. classes. » SHAYS, page 3

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