1 the Unlversi_ty of Florida.

2 A. r was erected to the stui] rt senate fi-ve times,

3 starting in fall of 1989. And r wa rlected student body
4 treasurer 1993-spring of ,93. And s. rdent body president,
5 spring of L994. r was also invorved in Accent and several
6 other student government organizations.
7 a. would you please describe the Florida Blue Key
B tapping process, and particularly the role of group leaders
9 and the house and group system in the process, if any.
10 A. The process of tappingr, from my tenure there, was one
11 of students submitted their r6sum6s on regal-sized sheets of
12 paper. They were compiled and heard by a tapping committee
13 excuse me-by evaluations committee, based on rules set by a
14 tapping committee.
15 And the evaluations committee, r believe, had four
16 students and three facurty rnembers. They ranked those
17 students highly recommended, recommended, not recommended, or
1B not qualified.
,: 19 And then we went into a ser-ection process where
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!", ZU individuals got together and came up witrr a list, a float
21 list. And sometimes that r-ist got approved; sometimes it
22 didn't. Numerous times students who were not on the list got
23 in.
24 a. well-, telr us about the float rist and how .they were
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 1 A. Individual_s from the di_fferent_from different
2 houses would tal-k to whoever their group leader was about
3 their priority-their people that they wanted to get in. And
4 those people would come up with a l-ist based on-you know,
5 al-most generally speaki-ng, all the highly recommended people
6 got in first round. only hiqhry recommended or recommended
7 people could be considered first round. And then they kind of
B got debated out of there from there.
9 a. welr, what is ig-your opinion as to whether the
10 people that were most favored by the various group leaders
11 would ultimately end up being tapped?
12 A. A pretty high percentage, unless there were
13 extenuating circumstances. rf a student had had probrems,
11 either disciplinary or criminal or academi_c or something, then
15 regardless of whether they were on the float or not, then they
16 would probably not get in, because they sti_ll needed two-
17 thirds of a secret ballot.
1B a. What role does the Florida Blue Key group leaders--
19 the group l-eaders and the house and group system-have in
*-* 20 selecting candidates for the student qovernment, presidency,
21 for the Fl-orida Blue Key president, for the chairman of the
22 political party that/s going to run in a particular student
23 government election to support candidat
24 MR. BOBEK: Objection; leading.
25 BY MR. LITTLE:

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a. the selection of Homecominq director and Gator
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-and ML. Tompkins?
Growl chairman,
3 A. A l-ot of question there.
4 Depends on-each one of those is-is sometimes
5 rel-ated. The-the group leaders obviously had more of
6 more of an interest and more of a say j-n thi-ngs that were
7 i-nternal Blue Key positions. They al-so had some sort of
a impact on the student government elections.
9 But that varied by election and varied by people.
10 The parties were usually-personnel were usual-Iy picked by-
11 well, w€ may have been divvied up by group leaders, but they
12 would have been picked by either candidates or other
13 individuals.
14 a. Wel-l, you say divvied up by group leaders. I wonder,
15 are you familiar- Well let me ask you this:
16 Describe in particular the process by which the
17 candidates for the 1-995 spring student government election
18 were selected.
19 A. As best I can recall, the-that particular agreement
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?0 was a kind of a superdeal. It involved the Gator Growl
21 producer, the Homecoming gieneral chairman, the student body
22 president, vice-president, and treasurer slates. Student
23 traffic court was in there. And then the party chai-rman and
24 the associate party chairs would have been there too.
25 a. Now, you in effect were the head-or were you in

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 1 effect the head or the titular head of a group that-at the
2 time those choices were made?
3 MR. BOBEK: Mr. Little, thi-s arrangement is
4 unsuccessful. I/m making the objection that I'm not
5 getting to voice my objections before you begin your next
6 question. I/m just barely able to hear the witness.
I would move to strike the witness' last answer as
B unresponsive to the question.
I MR. LITTLE: Which-Mr. Bobek, which one do you wanl
10 to strike?
11 MR. BOBEK: The last answer. It seemed to describe a
12 number of different offices, which wasn't the question.
13 BY MR. LITTLE:
14 a. Mr. Tompkins, would you please tell the jury the
15 names of the groups in existence in connection with the
16 springt 1-995t student qovernment electi-on.
17 A. It would have been Spe-De1ts, Pi-Tau, Supergroup, and
1B Alpha-Delt.
19 a. And would you te11 the jury which one of those groups
*., ?a you were connected with.
21 A. Pi-Tau.
22 0. And would you tel1 the jury what offices or
23 candidacies your group was able to achieve out of the of the
24 superdeal you referred to.
25 A. Student body president, Gator Growl producer. We got

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 1 senate president, whj-ch was traded for student body treasurer"
2 And we got Blue Key president, I believe, was in that same

3 dea1, for Chris Nash.

4 a. And can you recall what the other groups got on-in
5 connection with that ]-995 dea1.
6 A. Spe-De1t would have giotten vi-ce-president, Alpha-De1t
7 would have gotten general chairman-
8 0. Of Homecoming?
9 A. Homecomingi.
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10 Alpha-Delt also got senate president in the trade
11 from my group.
12 O. You haven/t mentioned Gator Growl?
13 A. Gator Growl went to our group; Gator Growl producer
14 went to our group. But then-
15 a. Now, who was the-who was the president candidate
16 for the L995 spring student government el_ection?
17 A. Kevin Mayeux for spring of r95.
1B a. Now, at the time, what was your official position
19 with student qovernment; that is, at the time this deal was
j't 20 made?

21 A. I was student body president at the tj-me.

22 O. And what connectj-on did you have with the actual
23 runnj-ng of the-of the campaign after this deal- had been
24 made?

25 A. Very little. My key involvement was after the deal

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1 had been struck, that our group received the senate president.
2 I-I traded that with Alpha-De1t to receive student body
3 treasurer for my fraternal brother. And other than that--rny
4 fraternity brother, Paul Koukos.
5 And other than that, the campaign, ds far as I know,
6 went well: They won.
7 a. Yes. And why was it-was there some reason that you
B weren/t rnore actively involved j-n the campaign perhaps?
9 A. Heavi-Iy involved in setting up telephone registration
10 at tl.e ti-me with the university.
11 My term had been extended by two months by the
12 student senate, so that created a lot more work to do than
13 would have otherwj-se been goi-ng on.
14 We were also very involved in the session; thatrs
15 when there/s just a huge debate at the state lever over the
16 budgets for the universities, differential tuition for the
17 universities, and those types of issues.
1B a. And when you refer-
19 A. And I was in l-aw school.
,+.* 20 a. When you refer to the session, yourre referring to
z1 the sessj-on of the Florida legislature?
22 A. Yes, that/s correct.
23 a. Okay. Now, once the candidates have been selected,
24 through the process you mentioned or otherwise, what role, if
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1 in supporting the election of the candi-dates?

2 A. They encouragie their-our members to vote. And we
3 try to turn out the vote, be it the fraternity or sorority or
4 the band or student orqranization.
5 And each tries to turn out at many people to vote and
6 support the tlcket, to avoid a runoff, to try to 9et, you
7 knor^r, over 50 percent of the vote on the first shot.
8 a. And in the tapping process, what role does this
9 supporting of candidates have in the evaluation of candidates
10 candidates for Florida Blue Key?
-of A. wel1, r mean, T think people obviousry
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support the
't2 people that support theni. so those houses or organizations
13 that support candidates generally do better in the tapping
14 process than those who do not.
15 O. Do you know a man by the name of peter Vlcek?
16 A" Yes.
17 a. Do you recall when you first met peter Vlcek?
1B A. r would say that r probably met peter ei_ther fall- of
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'88 , when r ran with the Express party , er in fall-or by
1'* 20 certainly by spring of I 89 f met peter.
21 a. was the Express party a party that was selected
2? through the process you/ve descrj_bed?
23 A. No- No, sir. Express was the party of the current
24 student body president at the time, which was scooter willis,
25 and involved Debbie wasserman, who is now Debbie wasserman

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