Candidates face a strict $100 spending limit. When one student obtained free campaign buttons from a student group, opponents tried to impeach him.
Last spring 500 extra ballots appeared in the voting box. In ‘98 fraternities offered cash incentives to raise voter turnout.
In a hotly-contested election, a fake e-mail message sent to fraternities called them homophobic and racist. The perpetrator was never caught.
Election-committee members had cars vandalized. When a candidate demanded a recount, they retallied 12,000 votes by hand.
(See main story, “Poison Ivy: Campaigns on Campus”)
