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THE NINE SENATORS
Of betraying the confidences of their constituents by their votes approving an ad-littedly fraudulent election. Can the Nine Senators possibly contend that their voting ras really representative of the true senti-lents of the students they are obliged to •epresent? Are the commerce, architecture, engineering, dentistry, and LAS students illing to permit themselves to be represented in such an infamous manner? Is there a single group of honest students on Troy’s ;ampus that was not swept by waves of revision and rage as a result of the fraudulent flection scandal?
WE ACCUSE THE NINE SENATORS of tmearing the good name of SC. Do they realize that Troy has received far more unfavorable publicity on the outside than ever rould have materialized from frankly ad-titting errors and holding one re-election, >r even a dozen re-eleetions?
WE ACCUSE THE NINE SENATORS of [ttempting to destroy the very foundations student body government.
Even Hitler attempts to put on the appear-tce of fair elections. Our infamous Nine tnators, however, have had the indecency publicly condone the existence of fraud, id theii to openly uphold it as official.
WE ACCUSE THE NINE SENATORS of blackening the name of the £SSC senate itself. They have failed to assume the high moral obligation that goes with every senate seat. They have succeeded in placing the names of the senators voting disapproval Wednesday, and the names of over a dozen senators not entitled to vote, in the most unfavorable light.
WE ACCUSE THE NINE SENATORS of treacherously violating the most sacred trust of thousands of former Trojans, indeed of all
fighting men in the armed forces. Many have given,' and many are now giving, the last full measure of their devotion so that certain principles of righteousness, decency, fair-play, and democracy might have life and meaning in the new world to come. Disgust, bitterness, and cynicism are their inevitable reactions to this treason on the home-front.
The Nine Senators stand indicted in the eyes of the entire Trojan student body.
This afternoon the senate meets again in special session. An opportunity exists for the ripping up of this darkest page of Trojan history. Will the Nine Senators this time be honest with themselves, with their fellow Trojans, with the entire world? Shall we “nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth?”
OUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Senate to reconsider fraudulent election at noon session today
By STANLEY HANSON
Just 18 hours after the student senate certified the election of Jack Williams as president at a session in which evidence of voting fraud was submitted, Bob McKay issued a call for another special senate meeting scheduled for noon today.
Senate action will probably take one of two courses:
1.	SC’s representatives may affirm Wednesday night’s decision which approved the election, or
2.	The senate may reverse its previous action and call for a revote of the ASSC election.
The meeting is another closed session—closed insofar as the general student body is excluded, but the proceedings are not confidential and will be fully reported in the Daily Trojan.
If the senate votes to reconsider the fraud issue, it will reconsider in the light of student opinion which has been expressed since the senate’s action was publicized.
The AWS elections commission headed by Vivian Clarke denounces the action of the senate.
The SC Council on Religion scores senate action and demands a revote.
Petitions were circulated on
Vol. XXXIV
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6ix hundred members of the YWCA will go to the polls today to elect their leaders for next year.
For president they will choose from three prominent junior women— Betty Coman, Kathleen Gelcher, and Jackie Orlander—all of whom are Amazons with outstanding leadership records.
Miss Coman, Kappa Delta, is the national representative for the Y. She is a member of Spooks and Spokes, junior honorary, and secretary of the Woimen’s Athletic association.
Miss Gelcher, Phrateres, has been active in the Y cabinet since her sophomore year. She began as publicity chairman and at the beginning of this year was appointed to chairmanship of the advisers’ club. She is a member of the Theta Sigma Phi, national journalism honorary. As a charter member of Phrateres she is now activities chairman for that group.
Miss Orlander is this year’s president of Phrateres, vice-president of the Associated Women Students. She has served on the Y cabinet as historian and is a member of Spooks and Spokes.
Mary Lou Worsham and Jean Yale will be competing today for the vice-presidency of the Y. Miss Worsham is a member of Zeta Tau Alpha and is faith chairman of the YWCA. Miss Yale is chairman of the agricultural harvesting committee and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Both candidates are newly-elected, pledges of Amazons.
Secretarial candidates are Jackie Ford, Jean Holwerda, and Alane Ostenson. They are also newly-elected pledges of Amazons.
Louise Koch is in the running for treasurer of the organization and is unopposed.
The only polls will be located in front of Bovard auditorium today.
Women must present their Y membership cards in order to get ballots from officials.
AWS
• A revote on unopposed presidential candidate Margaret Ann Hausmann and other AWS nominees will be held today from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for women of Troy.
This second election day was
The AWS Elections com^mission heartily condemns the senate’s decision to approve an obviously fraudulent election. We are not concerned about the “adverse publicity” that might result from a sincere effort to secure an honest election.
The AWS is having 'a re-vote, today in order to insure absolute fairness to all concerned. If any irregularity at all is detected in today’s vote, the AWS Elections commission will insist upon a third election and a fourth and a fifth, if necessary. We refuse to condone dishonest elections.
Vivian Clarke,
AWS Elections commissioner
deemed necessary by AWS officials because an unprecedented number of women voters exhausted the ballot supply by noon last Friday (Continued on Page Four)
Daily Trojan seeks opinions
Student opinion Is the thing, and the Daily Trojan wants more of it. New ideas, beefs, and bouquets coming from any student will be printed in the D.T.’s “What’s on Your Mind?” column if the letters submitted are less than 200 words in length and are signed by the writer. Initials will be used in print if they are desired.
The process by which your thoughts may be presented to the world is an easy one. It’s as simple as utilizing a pen, pencil, or typewriter, then dropping the results in one of the three Daily Trojan “What’s on Your Mind?” boxes. These can be found in Old College, the Student Union, and Bridge hall.
Graham tells names of 28 new Squires
Twenty-eight freshmen students have been elected to Squires, it was announced yesterday }*y Bruce Graham, president of Knights. Membership to Squires, an honorary sophomore service organization, is based on character, evidence of leadership, activities, scholarship, and interest in the university.
Those named Squires were Fred Marshall, John Smithson, Sigma Chi; Phil Kirst, Dick Scoles, Kappa Sigma; Jack Balzer, Norman Galentine, Phi Kappa Psi; Dick Sprinkel, George Callanan, Kappa Alpha; George Ballaseux, R. B. McClary, Delta Tau Delta; Marvin Levand, Alan Rudolph, Zeta Beta Tau; C. W. Fuller, W. L. Forward, Theta Xi; Edward Kelley, William Chapman, Pi Kappa Alpha.
More men named Were Warren Miller, Sigma Nu; Dick Alden, Rea Rawlins, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; James Joyce, Sigma Phi Epsilon; Mel Morrison, H. Afflev, Delta Sigma Phi; Robert Moodey, Les Vla-hos, Phi Sigma Kappa; Harvey Roscoe, Sign:a Phi Delta; Charles Nickloff, Theta Chi; Jim Harris, non-org.
All Squires must have a 1. grade average and must maintain that cumulative average to remain in the organization.
Religious council demands revote
To the ASSC senate, from the Student Council of Religion:
Be it resolved that the Student Council of Religion in regular session does hereby petiti-.n the ASSC senate to rescind its certification of the ASSC election of Mar. .26, 1943, and that said election be declared null and void, and that a re-election be ordered.
We present this petition upon the following grounds:
1.	It is our opinion that the over whelming majority of students regard fraudulent practice in any measure in student affairs to be treachery against fundamental principles of sound education.
2.	Since the malpractice reported by the official fact-finding committee was of the nature of willful dishonesty on the part of a significant minority of designing students, we regard such low politics as deserving of condemnation that will leave no doubt as to the dominant attitude of the student body as a whole.
3.	We register our conviction that to approve an election in which fraudulent practice was a known factor—however small the number of those responsible for the malpractice—is to compromise the basic principles of integrity on which our university was founded.
We respectfully submit this petition in the interest of Trojan principles and against petty politics.
Approved by the Student Council of Religion.
Howard Callanan, President
Senate meeting
A meeting of the ASSC senate will be held this noon in 418 Student Union. All members must be present. Other students who were present at Wednesday’s meeting are invited.	,
Robert McKay President of ASSC
campus yesterday and their circulation will continue today, condemning senate action.
When senate' members meet this afternoon, these issues will run through their minds:
The report of the election fact-finding committee which discovered 113 irregularities in a list of 1132 voter’s names checked with enrollment records—a 10% irregularity.
Senate members will also bear in mind statements made at Wednesday’s meeting:
Don Shaw—Perhaps we didn’t check as thoroughly as we should have. (Shaw was an (Continued on Page Four)
-A proposal-
As a suggested measure to facilitate honest elections, John Lows has submitted to the senate the following amendment to the ASSO constitution:
“That there shall be one central polling place (with separate provision made for Junior Dental School and Medical Sohool, which may be considered off campus) t which shall be open from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and that booths shall be provided for the secret marking of ballots.
“At a bona fide polling place, there must be provided by the Office of the Registrar of the University an alphabetical list of students enrolled in the university at the time of the election. It is further provided, however, that the elections commissioner is authorized to make arrangements for the voting at the colleges off campus under faculty supervision and management.
“In addition it is proposed that the voting student sign his name on the aforementioned official list of eligible voters directly opposite his name.”
A two-week period must intervene before the proposed amendment is voted on, and senate members have asked that student opinions be expressed.
Whafs on your mind?
Did we forget?
Daily Trojan, Editor:
More than 300 Trojans have put away their books within the last month to fight and if necessary even to give their lives for democratic ideals which we pledged ourselves to keep
Have we forgotten the promise we made to our ERCs as we said goodby to them Mar. 5?
When we told them we, who were staying home, would remain true to the cause which they were defending, were we insincere?
How do you think they would feel if they knew that we had gone back on them to the extent of al-loing petty politics and fraud creep nto our electons?
Let’s wake up and preserve our democracy here. Last Frday we bungled the job of choosing our leaders. It’s our responsibility — our duty—to go back to the polls and vote honestly.	J.B.W.
'Sleepy' senate
Daily Trojan, Editor: .
If this is the voting system our “representative” senate condones
and is the accepted practice for student body governments in our universities, then Hitler 'has some basis for his ravings about “decadent” democracies.
The question now lies not in who is the best man for office, but who stuffed tfte ballot boxes and are we sanctioning fraudulent practices as OK?
If SC rtoW hais a publicity black eye, it will have two if this election
goes unrectified. It is up to the
students, frho are not as ‘"sleepy”
as the senate, to consolidate their
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