Primary elections for student body president start this morning at 8. Students can vote at sgaelections.k-state.edu until 6 p.m. Wednesday.

There were five candidates Friday morning and only four by Friday evening. Jonathan "Ninjitsu" Culver, freshman in civil engineering, and his running mate, Nicholas Birdsong, junior in political science, failed to file an expense report by the deadline, 4 p.m. Friday, and were disqualified.

Culver and Birdsong were campaigning on the platform to "eliminate all pirates," Culver said during last week's presidential debates.

Elections Commissioner Brett Eakin, senior in management, said the pair turned in their report after the office was closed, so the report could not be filed.

Tyrone "Red Beard" Schurr, senior in electrical engineering, said the ninjas have not disappeared but are just hiding and waiting for a more opportune time to strike.

"The ninjas realized they could not win in a political arena, so they resorted back to their 'hiding in the shadows' and 'cloak and dagger,'" Schurr said. "They may have stepped up and stepped back to make people think they went away, but they're still there. They're being sneaky just like they always have been."

Trouble for Cox?

Lydia Peele, senior in mathematics education, and Andrew Glazier, senior in hotel and

restaurant management, both filed formal complaints on an item in Bryan Cox's expense report.

Eakin dismissed the complaints Monday evening, but Andy Glazier said he planned to appeal early this morning.

The complaints are about T-shirt costs. Glazier said Cox, junior in political science, might have failed to list a discount on his campaign T-shirts.

One of the rules for campaigning prohibit presidential candidates from receiving discounts on items without reporting the difference in price as a donation. Candidates will be disqualified if they receive more than $800 via donations from non-students. Cox's outside donations add up to exactly $800, so if the appeal is successful, Cox might be disqualified for accepting too much money in donations.

Cox said the cheaper-than-normal T-shirt prices were listed after a price-match with another T-shirt company in Wamego, Kan. He explained the discount would have been available to any member of the public and was not a personal discount, so it did not need to be listed.

Glazier argued for the complaint. Glazier said he bought a domain name from www.godaddy.com, but he received it for a cheaper price as a promotion available to any member of the public.

Glazier said Eakin required him to list the discount on his expense report as a donation and said the situation is similar to Cox's.

Cox's shirts cost about $4.30 per shirt, while Peele's cost around $3.23 per shirt before her recorded discount.

Eakin explained Peele bought plain shirts for cheap and had them printed, while Cox went to just one source for his shirts, which is why Peele's shirts were cheaper.

A decision on Glazier's appeal will be made some time today.