
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, November 3, 1994                   TAG: 9411030069
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

NORTH WINS VIRGINIA TECH MOCK ELECTION

Virginia Tech students, following the lead of other universities in the state, voted in Republican Oliver North as a U.S senator in a mock election Tuesday.

Only 255 of Tech's more than 24,000 students turned out for the election, possibly because of cold and windy weather, or possibly because there wasn't much pre-election publicity, said Betty Hayden, editor-in-chief of the Collegiate Times, Tech's student paper. The paper and Circle K Club sponsored the event.

"We would've liked to see a bigger turnout, but I think if more people voted, the results would still be similar," Hayden said Wednesday. "The mood on campus is very pro-North." North received 171 votes, or 67.1 percent of the vote. Democratic Sen. Charles Robb received 58 votes, or 22.7 percent, and independent Marshall Coleman received 26 votes, or 10.2 percent.

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