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IUSA elections run Tuesday, Wednesday online and on campus\nThe five IU Student Association tickets -- the House ticket, Imagine ticket, Miracle ticket, ONE ticket and the Supernova ticket -- are working on their final day of campaigning. IUSA elections are Tuesday and Wednesday.\nStudents will vote on paper ballots or online, said IUSA President Meredith Suffron, a senior.\nOnline voting will be available 24 hours a day Tuesday through Wednesday at iuaccts.ucs.indiana.edu/iusa.\nPolls at the Main Library, Kelley School of Business, Ballantine Hall and the School of Music will be open both days from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Indiana Memorial Union poll site will be open both days from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.\nExecutive candidates must receive 40 percent of the vote or lead by 20 percent to win, according to IUSA election rules. If no executive ticket meets these requirements, a run-off will be held the week after the election.\nState social workers to gather in Indy for advocacy day \nSocial workers from across the state are expected to gather Feb. 21 at the Statehouse at the Madame C.J. Walker Theatre Center in Indianapolis for Social Worker's Legislative Education and Advocacy Day. \n"The ultimate goal of Social Worker's Legislative Education and Advocacy Day is to create community and legislative environments in which social work values are adopted and implemented by policy makers in Indiana," Marion Wagner, a social work professor at IU-Purdue University at Indianapolis, said in a press release.\nThe group will march to the Statehouse at 11:30 a.m. for a rally in the north atrium. Practitioners, students and educators will then meet with individual legislators in small constituency groups.\nCongresswoman to present lecture Tuesday at SPEA\nCongresswoman Julia Carson (D-10) will present the 2001 Neal-Marshall Lecture in Public Policy 4 p.m. Feb. 20 in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs atrium. Carson will speak on "People, Partnerships and Progress."\nThe Neal-Marshall Lecture, sponsored each year by SPEA during Black History Month, honors Marcellus Neal and Frances Marshall, the first black IU graduates. The lecture is free and open to the public.\nCarson became the first woman and black elected to Congress in her Indianapolis district in 1996. Prior to her election, she served 18 years in the Indiana General Assembly and six years as Center Township Trustee.\nShe has twice been named as the Indianapolis Star's "Woman of the Year." Carson is a member of the Banking and Financial Services Committee and the Veterans Affairs Committee.