PSG fails to pass bill to censure president

By Kelly Lucas
Campus Editor

The bill to censure Busch Voigts III, student body president, failed at Wednesday night's Purdue Student Government meeting.

The student senate voted 18 for the censuring and 20 against with 3 abstentions through secret ballot.

The bill was in response to a statement Voigts made to the Purdue Exponent on April 6 concerning the Worker Rights Consortium.

The Exponent reported that Voigts said he fully supported the University's decision to not immediately join the Worker Rights Consortium and disagreed with PSG's official position to support the consortium.

Many senators were disappointed with Voigts' statement saying he opposed the official position of PSG while acting in an official capacity and, thus, thwarted the student body

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Pro-life group holds demonstration

Four hundred crosses marked the lawn on Memorial Mall Wednesday in memory of the 4,000 babies who are aborted every day.

Members from Students for Life and Intervarsity Christian Fellowship held the "Cemetery of the Innocents" as part of a nationwide college campus pro-life campaign.

About 12 people gathered under the flagpole on Memorial Mall near the cemetery, reading prayers and singing the hymn "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee."

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Keady, players receive honors at banquet

Before Wednesday night's men's basketball banquet, only 12 people had received the President's Medal.

But that changed when, to start the 77th annual men's basketball banquet, Purdue president Steven Beering presented Purdue coach Gene Keady with the award. Keady joins past recipients such as astronauts Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan — the first and last men on the moon, respectively.

Beering said he tried to get his hair done in corn rows like Boiler forward Rodney Smith, but his barber didn't have enough time. Beering had time, however, to praise the fans, the outgoing seniors, recent Phi Beta Kappa inductee Carson Cunningham and Keady.

"It's been a great run, Gene," said Beering, who plans to retire this June. "Our time together has been very special … I'm proud of you."

Keady, who received a standing ovation as he accepted the medal, said the award was "greatly appreciated and totally unexpected."

Keady, who was named the Big Ten's and National Association of Basketball Coaches' coach of the year, later gave out his own awards.

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