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of fraud in election
•Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do." Nine out of 16 representatives of the University of South -California student body last night voted their approval ff an election which they generally agreed was fraudulent, "or approximately two hours they worried about whether the [ercentage of fraud was large enough to change election re-ilts, whether a re-vote election would give the university publicity. Then they wound up by missing the point.
Student senators met last night to decide whether last •iday’s ASSC election was valid or whether it was fraudulent id invalid. Elections Commissioner Phil Levine presented ie report of an official fact-finding committee which stated iat out of 1132 votes sampled, 10 per cent showed evidence irregularities. Sixteen names appeared more than once on ie signature lists, and 97 names were signed that were not the registrar’s list of eligible voters. The senate accepted ie charge that counterfeit student body cards were used. It ras the contention of Burdette Jordan, arguing for a re-vote lection, that this was enough evidence to prove that the •tion was not an honest one, and therefore should be de-lared invalid. But a majority of the senate members allowed
their minds to become clouded by thoughts that completely honest elections were impossible and that publicity resulting from a re-vote would give SC a black eye.
Perhaps it was parliamentary procedure that befuddled the minds of tired legislators. The final vote was taken, not on whether or not the election was an honest one, but rather on whether or not to accept the election commissioner’s tabulated figures of final votes for the various candidates. Perhaps, ridiculous thought, senate members were in too much of a hurry to get home to allow themselves a real pause for reflection. Whatever the reason, there is no doubt that many members failed to analyse the real issue at hand.
Something died when last night’s vote was taken. Senate members trying to breathe life into a hope that was being born, were beaten off by each automatic or thoughtless vote and were completely frustrated when the final vote was read. If the ideal of an honest election was being born this year, its life was unthinkingly and selfishly snuffed out by last night’s abortion.
As a result, you Trojans this morning are met with the news that dishonest elections are condoned at SC.
As a result, you are faced with the probability that crooked
HERN CALIFORNIA
Vol. XXXIV
HAS—-1-41
Los Angeles, Thursday, Apr. 1, 1943
Night Phone: RI. 5472
No. 117
(AFRICA—British hold highwav linal only 45 minutts from lericans forging: southeast of El lettar; eighth,army win# Metouia Oudref, above Gab«s, and eon-me advance.
[ RUSSIA—Germans admit *‘short-ling front” in Lake Ilmen area >uth of Leningrad; Russians in ind-to-hand bayonet fighting in »p Smolensk defense belt. 'RANCE—Report German de-id for French mei chant ships in literranean ports; nazis ask >,000 French workers to construct defenses along coast.
ITALY—Mussolini, facing infla-appeals to people to help curb ;k markets; bread rations cut. TUGOSLAVIA—Nazis order examination of Jugoslav guerrilla iy by use of poison gas if neces-ry; act to prevent spring upris-in conjunction with allied in-sion.
WASHINGTON—The house yes-trday heatedly debated the effect pending new war security act >uld have on newspapers.
|Rep. Martin Dies, D., Tex., feared jwspapers would be laid open to ;ution under “the broad lan-lage” of the measure, which has stice department approval and rhich would provide death or long-|rm prison sentences for persons jnvicted of "hostile acts against ie United States.”
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Donation* for the SC war casual-station at present total $457.66. ASSC has contributed $140 rough the war board. The faculty men have donated $10, while the ilty wives have given $5. Al aikah Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., ntributed $25. The Chi Phis made contribution of $50 more than ir quota. The Panhellenic coun-has donated $75.
Other fraternities donating to the casualty station are: Alpha Rho Delta Sigma Phi. Delta Tau Ita, Kappa Alpha, Kappa Sigma, Kappa Tau, Phi S{gma Kappa, a Alpha Epsilon, Sigma Chi, a Nu, Sigma Phi Delta, and Beta Tau.
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will report, today at 9:50 a.m. Arnold Eddy’s officc. They are Rudolph, Ed Harper, Jack lderth, Red Haines. Charlie Cox. Green, Joe Davis, and Dick V*n
Red Cross goal almost reached as drive ends
With only $75 needed to reach the $700 goal, the Red Cross donation drive on campus is scheduled to close today, according to Lynn Norby, student chairman.
A total of 15 bampus organizations have contributed to the Red Cross, including the Drama Workshop which gave $60 from “Lost Horizon” profits this week. A final canvassing of SC offices will be made by Amazon pledges today, Miss Norby announced.
"The way Trojans have responded to this drive has been wonderful, and we in charge certainly appreciate your cooperation,” she said.
Organizations who gave to the drive include fraternities Zeta Beta Tau, Kappa Alpha, Phi Sigs; sororities Phi Mu, Alpha Epsilon Phi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Alpha Gamma Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Zeta Tau Alpha, Delta Gamma, Chi Omega, Pi Phi; and Phrateres; Gamma Alpha Chi, commerce honorary; and Drama Workshop.
Coinciding with the drive to raise money is an effort by campus groups to donate blood to the Red Cross. The College of Engineering is continuing its donations to the blood bank this week, as are many other SC groups.
-Official report of fraud-
Memorandum to Robert McKay:
REPORT OF, ELECTION COMMISSION RE: SAMPLING OF ELECTION RETURNS
Excluding the signed lists from the polls at the Dental college where the election was conducted under faculty supervision, your commissioner, with the help of a volunteer committee, found that out of 1132 names checked 97 could not be found on the list of enrolled students supplied from the office of Vice-President Henry Bruce. In addition there appeared to be 16 cases where the same names appeared more than once which might be considered duplicate voting. In other words in this broad sampling of 1132 names 113 actual discrepancies were found which indicated irregularity of approximately 10 per cent. It must be reported that only a small portion of the lists from the poll in front of the administration building was sampled, because the committee found that the sampling of the list from the administration building polls indicated no discrepancies at all. It is safe*however to report that the discrepancy in the election returns is not less than 5 per cent and at the very outside not more than 8 per cent or 9 per cent.	Respectfully submitted,
JOHN LOWE for PHIL LEVINE,
A. S. U. S. C. Election Commissioner.
Blue Key
. • . members will gather tonight at the ZBT house at 6 p.m. for a dinner meeting.
Navy plans clarified
To clarify the situation regarding students in the various navy reserve programs, Dean Albert S. Raubenheimer, armed forces representative at SC, has released the following information:
Those students now completing their seventh semester will be allowed to finish their college program either as civilians or on active duty.
Students now completing their sixth semester of college work will be allowed one more semester of education on active duty. They will be called to active duty about July 1.
Students in the navy reserve programs may, if they wish, attend a
five-week inter-session program at SC. This program will run from May 24 to June 26. Dean Raubenheimer emphasized that it would be to the student’s advantage to enroll in this program. A maximum of six units credit will be offered.
Engineer reservists following the specialist program, regardless of the number of equivalent semesters completed on July 1, 1943, will be allowed to continue their college (Continued on Page Two)
machine politics and dishonest elections will be the accepted practice for another period of years.
As a result, you will have to admit to off-campus friends that SC elections are traditionally frauds.
As a result, elected candidates go into office with a black cloud over their heads, defeated candidates are necessarily worried by “what might have been.” Student officers can never be sure of the wholehearted support of even a majority of the student body.
As a result, you will leave the university knowing that you have never had a part in your student government, for yon have never been actually represented.
Some senat# members voted the way they did because of momentary inability to visualize the real problem. Others had their voting minds made up for them before they entered the senate chambers, and must therefore be condemned. But it is to be hoped that none of those who closed their eyes to the fraud realized the true import of their action.
Paradoxically, in this election the candidates are not and have not been the significant issue. It is not being too idealistic to say that there is a real principle involved. The difference between right and wrong is clear.
Williams certified as ASSC president
BY STAN HANSON
The election of Jack Williams as ASSC president was-certified last night by the student senate in a 9 to 6 vote after a fiery two-hour session in which evidences of fraud were submitted by a fact-finding committee appointed by Phil Levine and Arnold Eddy.
The report showed that of 1132 names checked, there were 97 names of voters that could not be found in the registrar’s list of enrolled students. Sixteen additional names were used more than once. Total irregularities reached 113, or 10 per cent of the committee’s check.
Those voting yes and approving the election were:
Hugh McKellar, College of Commerce
Al Luthi, Architecture
Hugo Francis, College of Engineering
Joe Voorhees, Dentistry
George MacPherson, athletic council
Bruce Graham, Knights
Marjorie Anderson, Amazons
Bob Fiske, interfraternity council
Lael Lee, Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Those voting no and disapproving the election were:
Charlotte Quinn, vice-president ASSC Beverly Royston, secretary ASSC Seymour Vinocur, forensics council Howard Callanan, religious conference Barbara Symmes, AWS president
Shirley Millikan, YWCA president
Two of the other senate members present did not use their votes. John Lowe, publications, declared he would “sacrifice his vote,” and Dorothy Smith, panhellenic president, declined to vote. Miss Smith is secretary-elect of the ASSC.
Don Shaw, at the outset, declared that the fact-finding
Skeptic speaks
She was yellow but turned patriotic red
By Pat Conrad
I have a story to tell; the tale of a sceptic, a group of college girls and a pint of blood.
It all started yesterday when I went along with a group from Alpha Gamma Delta to the Blood Bank center at 9th and Western. Virginia Stranlund, more commonly referred to as “Bloody” because of her position as chairman of the Blood Bank committee, had organized the little trek. I personally was scared to death.
As a matter of fact, even though I didn’t have an appointment, I could mentally picture the needle.
Going over, Arlette Renauld and Elizabeth Steward began to discuss the medieval practice of taking blood to get rid of a disease. This pleasant topic continued until I started to turn a dull shade of pea green. Not that it isn’t an attractive color, but, after all, red is much more patriotic. Lucfcily Helen Janet Sims turned the conversation to a more pleasant subject; namely as L’il Abner would say, how cool one feels after the donation has been donated.
“Sure,” I thought to myself gloomily, “air conditioning via needle.” For some incomprehensible
reason, though, the other girls refused to be dampened by my rather blue expression.
There are blue cards, to be signed by parents of 18- to 21-year-old blood donaters, in a rack by the Daily Trojans In the Student bookstore.
An arrow, somewhat like the ones on a fun house at the now “only-a-memory” Venice pier, pointed the word entrance, and changed it from just another word to the title of an entirely different world.
Walking into the building, one is
surrounded by a bevy of nurses, doctors, and milling humanity. On one wall hangs a sign. This sign greatly attracted me. “Are you under 18 or over 60? Do you weigh less than 110? Have you had malaria within the last 15 years, T.B. at any time, diabetes, or jaundice within the past six weeks?”
I decided at this point, that the only thing to do would be follow the girls through the entire process. We shuttled from one room into another. Here I watched with a lump in my throat, all of the “dear (Continued on Page Two)
committee of which he was a member did not thoroughly investigate the signature lists of the downtown dental school and the administration poll as thoroughly as they checked other polls.
Levine explained that these two polling places showed almost 100 per cent regularity.
Vinocur put the question, “What accounts for the discrepancies between the different polls—why were some fairer than others?”
Don Shaw, who was an official at the engineering poll, admitted, “Perhaps we didn’t check as thoroughly as we should have.”
Arnold Eddy threw the responsibility for the discrepancies existing between different polls squarely on the shoulders of election officials.
“It was due,” ,he said, “either to poor supervision by election officials at polls, or to a lack of facilities to conduct a proper election.”
Williams’ name was brought in only once during the ses-(Continued on Page Two)