Special Election Issue
TUDENT ELECTIONS START TODAY
ARNE LINDSREN
WARREN CLENDENINS
RADMILLA GOGO
MIMI SHEPHERD
VIRGINIA WITMER
Da
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Vol. XUV
Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Apr. 29, 1953
No. 121
Aspirants Give Political Platforms
rne Lindgren [Warren
Clendening
Quite a few people have come up to me to ask about my political party status. I hope I can settle the matter.
I am running independent of
The principles upon which I am /aging my campaign for the AS-SC presidency are continued service to the student and accomplishment through teamwork. The president acts as your official host at many functions dealing with other schools and the public in [general He is representing .Troy and providing them with the in- any Par*y- I feel that If I were formation of the progress Troy is a mern^°r ^ a Pari-V» I would ■naking. Consequently, since his | ^prefe"t °n'y ,a	Portion of
constituency consists of more e j.^en	!	fool	that	only
than 10,000 men and women on f candidate running independently SC campus, the job must en- * can *10Pe to lead the entire st”-il working together as a team e"t o >• vith the other elected represen. ?"VS "ot to thTat 1 hav* atives In providing greater sen- rc/us<>d endorsement. I am no ~	.	adverse to accepting the support
I from anyone or any group that feels I can do a good job.
The office of ASSC president is
Two parties have openly sup-irted my election, The Trojans lor Representative Government Jims of these two parties has consistently been to support canfli-iates whom they feel will con-[inue to act in the best interests >f all students and not for only a
a big one. The ideal president has an obligation to do many important jobs for the students. He has to represent them to the faculty, the alumni, the community, and to other schools. If the stu-
mall segment These two parties j ¿^^5 they are being treated ^.1 not operate throughout the unfairly, it is the duty of the terms of olfice as pressure groups, i student body president to carry
[! No deals are made! They act as trut h groups to provide the voters
their complaints to the administration. Wherever he goes, and
with the names of candidates 1 whatever he does, your president whom they feel will act with open j jg representing you. ri judgment in all of their actions, j The president is responsible for k One question that has been \ the success of Homecoming, ori-'sked and one which will continue | entation. Trojan Chest drive, and t«. be asked is, “What can stu- many other activities, since he le.'t government do?” The an- appoints, with the approval of
pe»' lies with all Trojans. If this student body can be led in the field of working together as a [‘huge family” there is nothing lat could not be promoted or Accomplished. We could produce a lirit of working for Troy which tould place us on top of all ‘col- I
the Senate, the people to head these programs. If he appoints an unqualified person, the activity will be unsuccessful. • I believe that ability is the only qualification that should be considered in appointing people.
I believe in an energetic pro-
of publicity if our Songfest were held in a place like the Greek Theater or the Hollywood Bowl. Seniors should not be expected to take final axaminations in the last week of their college career. Our school would get a lot more of the high school graduates in Í this area if we were more energetic about meeting th«n and interesting them in SC.
I would like to have a chance to work with you in building a j greater university for ourselves j and later generations.
Warren Clendenning
ges and universities. I believe | gram. SC would a great deal It can be done and I pledge myself to work for that goal.
You. the voters, will have the jpportunity to cast your vote and decide who will serve you for he coming year. The justification of my principles now lies with you!
Arne Lindgren
Nancy M ispagel
During my two years at SC I have become more cognizant of the duties	and requirements of
the ASSC	secretary. The secre-
tary is responsible for all the ASSC correspondence, notifying senators of meetings, and mimeographing sixty copies of the Sen-| *te agenda and minutes to be distributed to the administration and
senators. All this is in addition to | from all phases of campus life.
1 serving on various committees and 2. Publicizing the senate meet having the privilege of a vote. ings to inform all students as You, as students, have a big to how their student government responsibility in selecting next is organized and encouraging year’s ASSC secretary. It is up | them to visit the senate meet-to you to elect a capable and re- ; ings.
iponsible	person, who has the	'	I feel qualified	to	run for	ASSC
time and	qualifications for the	i secretary	as	I have	been	active	in
position.	student affairs for three years at
. My record in SC activities ! SC. My activities include presi-Lm. as my qualifications.
I am willing and able to give the
Joann Peterson
If fortunate enough to be elected to the office of ASSC secretary, there are twro things w-hich I would like to see carried out: 1. Organizing a dependable secretarial staff, including students
eds, and Amazons,
a member of Spurs,
. 1 nuioiuua, Fresh man Women’s time and the sen.ee to my urn-	a	cabjne,
verity that this posit,on requires. The offlce of ASSC secretary ¡s
I can guarantee to .1 of you a worW	mon ani j would,
that if I am elected, I w ill handle j to the best of
my ability, carry
the duties of ASSC secretary to ou^ duties and responsibilities the very best of my ability.	; jn an impartial manner.
Nancy Mispagel J	Joann Peterson
Radmilla GoGo
It cannot be denied that many people feel that a closer unity is needed between students on our SC campus. I feel that to a large degree the function-of an ASSC vice-president is the attempt to provide for that unity. By working with the student senate this year, in the capacity of a senator-at-large, I have seen the various social problems confronting independent, foreign, and Greek affiliated people on campus.
I feel that probably all of these people desire a more unified SC. This can easily be seen by the co-operation and enthusiasm illustrated by the TGIF mixer. I feel that it is the function of the vice-president to provide for other such similar events; we must not stop with the TGIF mixer, since it has been such an excellent starting point for other such activities. Cooperative open houses and contests could help continue this enthusiasm for unity. Perhaps, various schools such as commerce, music, education, engineering, LAS, and architecture might also provide for such events that would work toward this same goal. Unity on the SC campus is certainly not an impossibility and I feel that it is a duty of the ASSC vice-president to help prove this.
Radmilla Gogo
Virginia Witmer
The ASSC vice-president plays a very important part in student government. This office co-ordinates every university social function and also plans and promotes all university gatherings. In the three years that I have been here at SC I have followed the activities of this office and have thus formulated some ideas of my own.
I believe that the social committee has developed many good ideas such as the open houses after football games, and the TGIF mixers. These, I feel could be further developed into bigger successes. I would like to see all these university events planned by a committee including both independents and organized groups so they can plan a program beneficial to the whole university. Another program which might be started is to arrange coffee hours for each school to attend—bringing students, both Row and independents and faculty together.
Virginia Witmer.
Mimi Shepherd
Let’s give politics a heave out the window and get down to the job of your ASSC vice-president. She is your social chairman, and in holding this position plans your social events and formulates the^ social policy. I hope to be wearing the shoes of ASSC veep next year and for this reason I am asking for your vote. I stand for:
1.	An all university street dance at the start of the semester.
2.	A get-to-gether with UCLA students for coffee in Commons before the big football game next fall.
3.	Rotating dinner exchanges for dorms, sororities, and fraternities.
4.	Greek week.
With these new plans in effect I think we can put SC back on the track to school spirit. Independents and Row students will become better acquainted with each so the student body will be more willing to work together. And what is a better way to get acquainted than through parties?
I want to continue Thank Goodness It’s Friday parties and All-U open houses after football games (which have become traditions this year), encourage use of the files in the office, and acquaint organiaztions with the social policy before parties are planned.
Mimi Shepherd
Campus Politicians Discuss Party Objectives and Effects
by Murray Brown
Objectives of campus political parties and their effects on students were discussed by three SC politicians yesterday at a YWCA sponsored forum in the International lounge.
But student body members who were the subjects of the discussion failed to show up, to hear George Gonzales, Bill Van Alstyne, and Ron Bartholomew express their views on campus politics. Quaification Given
AMS President Gonzales said the most important qualification for an all-U party candidate is willingness to carry out the operations of the office. •
Candidates should not infringe upon any of the rights of the party’s constituents and should not do injustice to the university’s name, he added.
“All-U does not believe in empty sounding platforms or in sacrificing principles to get votes,” Gonzales said.
According to him, All-U represents the majority of houses on the Row and also the independents. TRG Is Idealistic
Senator-at-Large Ron Bartholomew said that. TRG, Trojans for Representative Government, is primarily an idealistic group.
“Under the TRG set-up,” he said, “candidates are put on the ballot by the voters as a group. If the best man doesn’t get in, then the voters are
at fault.”
No “strings” are attached and the candidate is not a victim cf “machine practices” in a TRG election, Bartholomew said. He believes the decision should be left to the voters own conscience.
Unity party, as discussed by Van Alstyne, was formed because “students found themselves unable to get elected on a Row slate.” Unity is exclusively for independents.
Independents Termed Apathetic
“It is the independents’ own fault that politics are controlled by the Row,” he said. “They are. apathetic and the Row is active."
In explaining endorsement procedure of Unity,
Van Alstyne said the candidates are iterviewed by members of the party and asked direct questions pertaining to specific issues on the platform.
Van Alstyne, candidate for Senator-at-Large, said Unity cannot be accused of discriminating against members of any party on the Row “because some of the candidates just didn’t come up for an endorsement interview.”
He outlined four main goals Unity will try to carry out next year:
1.	Elimination of fraternity discrimination.
2.	Non-profit bookstore for students.
3.	Check cashing service on campus.
4.	Tearing up and landscaping University avenue.
Chance for Landscaping
For the first time in 10 years, according to Van Alstyne, there is a chance for a landscaping of University avenue. “Most of the leases on the stores along the avenue are up,” he pointed out. Two things necessary, he said, are a successful football season and 100 per cent student support.
The speakers also debated the present position of Arne Lindgren, candidate for ASSC president, who Unity News reported is in favor of eliminating discrimination on the Row.
Gonzales argued that Lindgren has come out against fraternity discrimination to get more votes. Originally, the AMS president said, Lindgren was against any legislation to curb discrimination.
Unity Endorsement Given
He was endorsed on the Unity ballot, Van Alstyne said, because of his direct promises.
“We are trying to get someone in office who will do the best for the party’s principles,” Van Alstyne brought out. “Lindgren voted with Unity on two of the three anti-discrimination bills.
Clendening, all-U candidate for ASSC president, “never faltered in voting In favor of anti-discrim-
inatony legislation,” said all-U Leader Ken Kruger.
“If Lindgren doesn’t support Unity issues on discrimination, Van Alstyne said, “the party should suffer as much as he does.”
JOANN PETERSON
POLL TAKEN
SC Leaders Ask (or Big Vote Turnout
by Don Desfor
Student votes and opinions do count and they do shape university politics, campus personalities emphasized in an attempt to spur all students to get out and vote today.
The students who don’t vote are usually the ones who yell about no representation and, in reality, are the ones to blame, said Wendell Casey ASSC student body president.
To support Casey’s view, Joan Field, ASSC vice-president, said that she has wTritten over 40 letters to campus clubs as well as make public appeals through the DT pleading for student suggestions and opinions.
No Reply
She didn’t receive one reply although she has had indirect reports of criticism.
“In fact I can’t really feel that I am a representative of the entire student body when only 10 per cent show up to vote,” Joan said.
However, the student election ultimately affects everyone because student body legislation directly affects everyone, says senior class president Larry Spec-tor.
Not Powerless
A lot of students complain that the student body is powerless with the administration anyway, but major policies have been shaped by student government, said Casey. The Student Health Center, is the result of student legis-. lation, he said.
The time to become civic minded is now, not four years from now, thinks Dr. Eugene Harley, professor of political science. SC is the student’s community, and it is an important and meaningful opportunity in setting a pattern for the time when the student participates in larger affairs in the community.
“It looks like a clean election so far and we’ll be watching it pretty closely,” were the words of Jim Lucostic, as he and his assistants sorted 18,000 ID cards which will be used at the polls as a precaution against ballot-box stuffing.
Insure Honesty *
Lucostic and his crew have spent several days and will devote several more in an effort to insure an honest election.
For those who are reluctant to vote because they don’t personally know any of the candidates, President Casey reminded students that voters in the national election don’t actually know the candidates either. “You should support the issues you are in favor of,” said Casey.
The candidates have poured a lot of money, time, and effort into this campaign, Casey concluded. “Now it is up to the students to decide whether it was in vain or not.”
Trojans to Choose From Field of 100
%
Political fate of more than 100 candidates spread among 19 ballots will be left up to 10,000 eligible voters beginning this morning from 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. in Alumni
park.
Any day student, foreign, independent, affiliated, graduate, or undesignated is eligible to vote, but not on all
19 ballots.
All voters can cast their choice for student body president, vice-president, secretary, yell king, and three constitutional amendments on the main ballot.
All students can select nine senators-at-large on the basis of perference on the second ballot.
All students who are not enrolled in the School of Education but have six units of education courses completed or in pr^ress are eligible to vote for School of Education officers, according to Cub Conover, president of the education council.
Medical students will vote for their officers Thursday between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. at the Los Angeles County hospital.
Request Veterans’ Ballot
All veterans should request the veterans’ representative ballot.
Foreign students also have a special ballot for their representative.
It is possible for a student to vote on eight ballots but four or five ballots is normal.
Seniors may vote for next year’s senior officers.
Independent men and women have their own ballot for representatives.
Students,enrolled in the following schools should request a ballot representing candidates for offices of their school: Architecture, Commerce, Education, Engineering, LAS, International Relations, and Pharmacy
The other ballot is for men to select an Associated Men Students’ representative.
The polls will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. today, tomorrow, and Friday. Ballots will be counted immediately after the polls close Friday with the results probably available sometime Saturday.
Runoff election will be next Wednesday and Thursday. Every party has to have at least three representatives at the polls and all major candidates should have one representative. No excusés from classes will be given, however.
Campaigning Restrictions
Jim Lucostic reminds candidates that there should be no parades within 150 feet of the polls and that candidates should not hang signs on doors and showcases.
Helping Lucostic with the sorting of 18,000 ID cards and the enforcing of regulations are Howard McCrady, Nick Fintzelberg, and Shyrline Somers.
In case of rain the voting booths will be located in the arcade of the Administration building.	______
ASSC Candidat es
PRESIDENT—W a r r e n Clen- t dening, All-U; Arne Lindgren, Unity, TRG.
VICE-PRESIDENT — Radmil-la Gogo, TRG, All-U; Virginia Witmer, Unity, TRG; Mimi Shepherd, TRG.
SECRETARY—N ancy Mispagel, TRG, All-U; Joann Peterson, Unity, TRG.
SENATOR-AT-LARGE (Nine are elected) — Cliff Altenberger, All-U, TRG; Jerry Baker, Unity, TRG; Bobette Bentley, Unity, TRG; Shirlee Blalock, TRG; Jerry Blankenship, All-U; A1 Golbert, All-U; Ed Lowre, Unity, TRG; Dick Merritt, Unity, TRG; Bill Van Alstyne, Unity, TRG; Sally McGrath, All-U; Seyom Brown, Unity. TRG; Joe Thomas, All-U.
AMS PRESIDENT — Ernie Schag, All-U.
AMS VICE-PRESIDENT—Bob Carpenter, TRG; Kent McFerren, TRG; Tom Parent, All-U; Ray Williams.
AMS SECRETARY — Chuck Singer, All-U.
SENIOR CLASS PRESIDENT —Larry Courtney; George Root, All-U; Jim McGregor, Unity, TRG.
SENIOR CLASS VICE-PRESIDENT— Stan Bickman, All-U; Carol Goshaw, Unity, TRG; Zoe Thompson, TRG; Patti Wright.
JUNIOR CLASS PRESIDENT —Roger Darbonne, All-U; Henry Elsbach, Unity, TRG.
JUNIOR CLASS VICE-PRESIDENT — Donna Meadors, TRG; Fen Newmark, Unity, TRG; Jacque Smith, TRG; Lenore Mon-osson, All-U; Mimi Belyea, TRG.
SOPHOMORE CLASS PRESIDENT—Bob Gerst, All-U; Jim Anderson, TRG; Ted Gardner, TRG; Bob Wallach, Unity, TRG; Doug Peake, TRG.
SOPHOMORE CLASS VICE-PRESIDENT — Barbee Steeves, TRG; Betty Metzger, TRG; Barbara Hines, TRG; Minnie Brown, All-U; Cindy Brassell, TRG; Carlos Martinez, Unity.
VETERANS REPRESENTATIVE — Bob Hallberg, Unity,
INDEPENDENT WOMEN’S REPRESENTATIVE—Bette Dob-
kin, Unity; Vicki Brown; Marguerite Cooper.
FOREIGN STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE—Dell Friedman, All-U; Gilbert Alvarez, Mohamet Aman.
INDEPENDENT MEN’S REPRESENTATIVE —Murray Bring,
Unity.
YELL KING — Bob Maners, George Ott.
LAS PRESIDENT — James Smith, Unity, TRG; Conway Leo-vy, All-U.
LAS VICE-PRESIDENT — Joel Rapp, All-U.
LAS SECRETARY — Dick Steiner, All-U; Sara Donald.
LAS TREASURER — Pat Kenny, All-U.
EDUCATION PRESIDENT — Pat Dailey, TRG; Shirley Egland, Unity, TRG.
EDUCATION VIC E-PRESI-DENT—Jim Manos, TRG.
EDUCATION SECRETARY — Georgiana Volk, All-U.
EDUCATION TREASURER — Ina Mae Niven.
COMMERCE PRESIDENT — David Maddux, All-U.
COMMERCE VICE-PRESIDENT—Ron Pacini, All-U.
COMMERCE SECRETARY — Gerald Monahan, All-U; Barbara Huston, TRG.
COMMERCE TREASURER — Don Robinson.
ARCHITEC TURE PRESIDENT — Robert Skinner; Bob Jones; John Renaldi, All-U.
ARCHITECTURE VICE-PRESIDENT — Bob McClennan; Jess Gelkerson, TRG; Jack Kaiser, All-U.
ARCHITECTURE SECRETARY—Marilyn McCarren.
ARCHITECTURE TREASURER—Carol McCarren.
PHARMACY PRESIDENT — Bob Atkinson, Jack Startz.
PHARMACY VICE-PRESIDENT—Stan Jones, All-U.
INTER NATIONAL RELATIONS PRESIDENT — Perry Spanos, Wilmer Cridell.
MUSIC PRESIDENT — Keith Brown.
MUSIC VICE-PRESIDENT — Barbara Hesse, TRG; Jerry Winters.
ENGINEERING PRESIDENT —Bill Sweet. All-U.
ENGINEERING VICE-PRESIDENT — Bill Coleman, All-U; Franz Worth; Gene Epman.
ENGINEERING SECRETARY —Dick Movich, All-U.
MEDICINE P R E S I DENT — Marshall M. Mercer.
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