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              another country favorable to constitutional democracy a more extensive list of eight internal conditions aiding in the creation of con stitutional democracy was then set forth by murphy he said two of the eight conditions seem to be essen tial in establishing a const itutional democracy first is the abscence of adamant opposition by the country's own armed forces second murphy said there must exist a critical mass of people who want constitutional democra cy...and possess the skills to operate the rules and social centered on compiling a list of prerequisites internal and external conditions existing before a constitutional democracy is set up every country is affected externally through interna tional relations murphy said for example a constitutional democracy may be hard to establish if a country has a powerful neighbor a power ful neighbor needs to be will ing not to dictate to you murphy said establishing constitutional democracy may be easier according to murphy if an alliance can be formed with lehigh university the brown and white friday march 9 1 990 vol 97 no 35 alpha gam knew about the election because of the number of women running from the house in addition silver said alpha gam ma delta pledges wearing letters man ned the voting table instead of senate members silver said this was unfair to the other sororities because it inadvertently advertised for their can didates koenemund said there was not enough people to man the tables because the senators were not allow ed to sit there if they were involved in the election koenemund said butera agreed to allow the alpha gam pledges to sit at the table she did not know if the pledges were wearing letters but said that nothing in the senate bylaws prohibits it and it would not matter anyway because no sorority affilia tions are given on the ballot silver also charged that the peti tions the four women submitted for their candidacy contained invalid sig natures of students who exceded the two petition signature limit set by the senate and were never varified senate president pam brady 91 said she agreed that the election procedings were unorthodox and a re election for all seven sorority seats was scheduled with petitions due march 21 there are still several fraternity and off-campus seats open because of a lack of students running for the posi tions the senate will be appointing senators for the remaining seats senate vice president lisa karabel nik 92 said the reason for this might be because the senate is new and is still establishing itself students elect senators panhel results contested by erin byron brown and white news writer controversy emerged from the feb 28 student senate elections after the panhellenic section of the election was contested and was rescheduled for thursday march 22 junior amy silver of alpha chi omega sorority who ran for a senate position said she is contesting the electi on because deadlines for candid ates to enter were changed without notification and unorthodox voting procedures were conducted silver said the feb 26 deadline for candidates petitioning to appear on the ballot was extended to the follow ing wednesday because not enough women were running for the eight positions open she said the sororities were not given enough notice about the second deadline by the senate election com mittee co-chairwoman kerry koenem und 90 of alpha gamma delta soror ity koenemund said after she and mike butera 91 co-chairman of the same committee decided to change to deadline they announced it to the senate at a meeting it was up to each senator to tell their constituency that the deadline was pushed up said koenemund if they didn't tell them it's not my fault silver said four women all from alpha gam joined the race in time for the second deadline and went on to win four seats in the senate six of the 10 women running were from alpha gam three were from delta zeta sorority and one from alpha chi omega sorority koenem und said perhaps more women from photo by young hong bob krizansky leaps to shoot against towson st in tuesday's ecc final professor outlines criteria of democracy see murphy page 3 ize others to these rules he said these are not totally givens though for example a strong leader lead er could persuade a hostile military to hold off murphy said his third and fourth conditions open and reasonable communitcation between different groups in the population and literacy are also important but not essential to the development of constitutional democracy for example he said in the united states open commun ications did not always exist by dianne carun brown and white editor in chief the list of prerequisites helpful in creating maintain ing and changing a constitu tional democracy were the focal point of monday night's annual tresolini lecture in law delivered by walter mur phy the mccormick professor of jurisprudence at princeton university murphy said studying the process of creating constitu tional democracies is diffic ult because their develop ment has been inconsistent changing from country to country murphy's study has inside news panhellenic council wins awards at panhemfc conference pages arts & leisure student leader tells of founding of umoja house page 9 sports men's basketball loses bid for ncaa against towson state page 16