400 Ballots Nullified by Voting Irregularity
MIKE THOMSON .
Dailv Troian Photo bv Boh Holste
steps from the voting booth
By JOE SALTZMAN
Elections Commissioner Juanita Sakajian and Dudley Johnson, student activities adviser, declared some 400 election ballots filed before 11:45 null and void yesterday becau.se of a “missing puncher” in the first day of the ASSC Elections.
Approximately 1200 students voted (including the 400 possible repeats) as the polls were (re-opened from 1 to 4 p.m. after being closed from 11:45 to 1 p.m.
Miss Sakajian said that the election polls would be opened today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and because of yesterday morning’s confusion, the voting will continue Friday mcrning, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., closing for a one-hour convocation in Bovard Auditorium at 10 a.m.
The case of the “missing puncher” began when Miss Sakajian's election group forgot to punch the SC identification cards when the students received their voting ballots, enabling voters to cast their ballots as many times as they wanted to.
The way the system was organized, the student’s Identification card should have been punched once at the entrance to the polls and again at the ballot stand.
By forgetting to punch the cards at the ballot stand, the election officials were letting the students vote, return to the ballot stand, get more ballots and vote again.
“This happened for the first hour,” Miss Sakajian said. “After we discovered this.through the detective work of Dan Cassidy, head of Men’s Judicial, and Denny Kouri, Trojan Chest chairman, we still could not tell which ballots were valid and which were invalid, so we decided to call all ballots used before 11:45 a.m. null and void.”
The excuse given for the “missing puncher” was that “too err is human, to forgive divine.”
“It was simply an oversight,” Johnson said. “Just chalk it up to human error on the part of the people who were setting it up.”
“If we caused anyone any harm or inconvenience, we respectfully apologize,” he said.
A new process was immediately installed. The identification cards are now stamped twice, once at the entrance and once at the ballot stand. Voting resumed yesterday at 1 p.m.
Elections Commissioner Sakajian said that it was indeed possible for a student to vote a number of times with the system that was used in the morning.
“There was no excuse for forgetting the puncher,” she said, urging all students who had voted in the morning, to come back during the polling Jiours today and tomorrow.
“How many students returned to file new ballots, I just couldn’t say,” Miss Sakajian said. “Out of the 1200 who voted, I wouldn’t know how many were repeats of those students who were first nullified, and who returned to vote again.”
SC students are voting for their choices from 50 candidates representing all major offices in Trojan government.
Undergraduate students with 12 or more units and graduate students with 6 or more units are eligible to vote.
Candidates for ASSC President, Wally Karabian and Mike Thomson, circulated around the polling area yesterday—the required distance is at least 50 feet —congratulating voters, shaking hands and answering election questions.
Vice presidential candidates, Trish Dwyer and Lynn Husted, accompanied the presidential candidates with campaign suggestions and platforms.
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1959
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National Honorary Elects 36 Trojans
Phi	Beta	Kappa	honors for	in Phi	Beta Kappa were: Jac-
miistanding	scholastic	achieve-	qUelvn	Alden, Anita Ammor-
man, Darlene Beuse, Helen Bushnell, Shari Lee Dennis, Michael Faia, Cornelia Goodly, an win. Charlene Hayes, Sarah n and jaque, Elizabeth Jackson. Har-amons 0]d Karlin. Jack Linkletter, Robert MacKinnon. Nicholas Mar->f TV tin. Gary Meadows. Evangeline i master Schulten. Abe Somer, Armida n tele-	Tellez,	Ralph Thlick. Charles
mem-	Tipton,	Brady Twiggs, Sharon
Kappa	Watton	and Eva Zschosche.
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Hun- Juniors with Phi Beta Kappa j i team, honors are:	Stewart Chelfet,
of the Allan Cutler. Gary Duhin. Reet id was Fnnmaa. Joseph Escatell. Larry i Hun- Fisher. Leona Goldstein. William
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Phi Beta Kappa throughout he year, nine were for Political Science majors. The journalism lepartment was second among; he 21 departments represented .ith six members.
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Med Faculty Attend Meet
Several members of the SC School of Medicine faculty are allending the annual meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology being conducted this week in
Atlantic City, N.J.
A research paper on the effect of Los Angeles smog on lung volume measurements will be read this afternoon by Dr. Hurley L. Motley, professor of medicine and director of the cardiorespiratory laboratory at Good Samaritan Hospital.
Walter Marx, professor of biochemistry and nutrition, presented a paper on thyroxine and yeast metabolism before the American Society of Biological Chemists earlier in the week.
Roslyn R. Alfin-Slater. visiting associate professor of biochemistry and nutrition, was one of four authors of a paper on “Metabolic Studies of Labeled Acetoglyeerides” presented by her graduate student, Rosemary L. Shull.	I
Today's Weather
Cloudy skies will prevail over the SC campus this morning, but clear and sunny 1 weather is predicted for this afternoon. High temperature will be <2.
Rebel Captive Tale Narrated By Missionary
By Jl'DY ASHKENAZY
An all permeating motivation j for national independence has ' created character in the Algerian rebels, asserted a Methodist missionary yesterday when he told of his experience as a rebel captive.
Speaking before students at the Wesley Club, Lester E. Griffith reported on the dignity of the men who held him prisoner for 40 days.
At Gun Point “Although he invited me at the point of a submachine gun to accompany him into the hills, one of the arresting rebels aoologized for his action, saying I ‘We are just in what we are doing. We are only following military orders,’ ” Griffith said.
The arrest came last August when Griffith, who was returning to the home frn* boys w'hich he directed, met the rebels at a road block. The rebels ordered him out of the car and tied his hands behind his back.
Prayed For Family Not knowing how' long he would be alive, Griffith’s first reaction was to pray — for his family, the rebels and courage.
Blit instead of being shot, the missionary was led into the hills to a rebel-camp where he was questioned. Griffith found his capturers to be alert, able and inquisitive personnel. They wanted to know his feeling toward the rebels, de Gaulle, the French nrime minister; and the Little Rock racial situation.
Violent Methods In answer to nuestions about the rebels. Griffith said. “I am I critical of the violent methods j used. I have known of cases where bombs have been thrown ; into school yards and at the feet of children.”
In regard to de Gaulle, he answered that he hoped de Gaulle would be able to bring about pe^ce.
“I knew' that if I bed about i my feelings. I probabtv would have been shot,” he said.
F,;»ger To Talk The rebels were eager to talk with him about the four free- ; doms. thp Atlantic Charter, Franklin Roosevelt. Dulles. Fi- | senhower. family life and the Kr>,''in and B*hle.
“Senator John Kennedv is ; thpjr favorite American.” Grif- j fith stated.
A close relationship developed j between Griffith and the rebels, i
Shared Meals “I was respected by them be- \ rause I was a man of God and | I was older than most of them.
T shared my time with the of- ! ficers. one of whom w as a sur- j geon. one a lawyer and another j a professor. I learned their first | names, found out about their I families and shared meals with j thpm. Together we built a close re*ationship.” he said.
Living with the rebels. Griffith d;sco\ered three axioms .
1. When men have an all permeating motivation, they have character.
When men have assurance, they’ 11 go through all hell fire.
3. Discipline is the key to liberty.
Anti-Discrimination Motion Pushed Through By Senate
Wolf, Blandford Win TopYWCA Positions
Senate Passes Bill in Record Time as Special Meeting Ends
Judy Wolf was named the new president of the YWCA last night as the annual elections held Tuesday and Wednesday came to a close. Opposing her for the presidency was Joan Faessel.
Elected to the post of first vice president was Pat Blandford and selected second vice president by the voters was Lucia Kapetanich.
Secretary for the Y during the next year w'ill be Marilyn Spigle. Bobbie Metz is the newly-elected treasurer.
More than 150 women students trekked to the Y to cast their ballots in the elections which were handled by senior members of the Y Cabinet. Carol Lindberg, Y president for 19,58-59, headed the committee w'hich included Jan Render, Marvanne Spielman. Nancy Galloway and Sue Krakover.
Installation of the new' officers will be held May 17, reports Miss Lindberg.
Petitions for numerous appointive positions on the Cabinet and Council will be available at the Y beginning Wednesday of next week.
Miss Wolf, newly-elected ex-
JUDY WOLF
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1 ecutive officer, has served as first vice president throughout this year. She has also been I chairman of the Y carnival held I last month and president of the : Student Council on Religion. In j addition, she is affiliated with j Chimes, junior women’s service ' organization.
Scholarship Assembly To Laud 650 Students
By DAVE FARMER
After more than two and a half hours of tiresome and irrelevant debate on minor issues, j the ASSC Senate passed an anti-| discrimination motion in three minutes last night calling for the abolition of any discrim-I inatory practices on the SC cam-| pus.
The motion, presented by Sen-ator-at-Large Stan Arkin at a I special Senate meeting, calls for j the removal of any discriminatory practices that may exist in the selection of students or faculty, to insure the growth of a greater university.
“The very essence of our American democratic heritage denies the morality and rationality of discrimination on the basis of color, creed or race in the selection of candidates for law, dental or medical schools,” Arkin said.
Fniversify Concept
“Since SC was founded on an interfaith and non - denominational basis, and since this tradition is certified in the University charter, we feel that racial or religious discriminatory practices work to ro" and divide the very foundation of our democratic society.” he stated.
“Furthermore.” Arkin continued, “these practices are inconsistent with the university
r concept for intellectual freedom and growth.” j Arkin and other endorsers of i the motion said they knew of no discriminatory practices on j campus today.
“But if any such practices do exist, we certainly disapprove of them,” Arkin declared.
The motion was presented by Senators-at-Large Larrv Lichty, Mike Donohew and Arkin. ASSC Vice President Mardythe O’Mara, Senior Class President Abe Somer. AMS President Ron Mitchell, and Foreign Student Representative Isaias Medina Sercaty. and received the unanimous support of the Senate.
Other Action
In other action the Senate passed an amendment that takes the appointment of Homecoming chairman out of the hands of 'the president and places it under jurisdiction of the Homecoming executive committee.
The Senators wrangled mote than an hour over the amend-! ment. The real issue lay in discussing a bylaw amendment at ! a special meeting.
After spending three quarters | of an hour debating first on whether the question should he | taken up. then on the amendment itself, and then back to | the validity of the Senate ac- i ' tion again. Senator Mike Losh- I
in accused President Scott Fitz [ Randolph of “dictatorial ac-I tions.”
“This whole mess is completely out of order,” Loshin said. “As leaders and thinking individuals we should not yield to 1 the iron hand of the chairman.” he said, referring to Fitz Randolphs ruling that the amendment could be considered at the j special meeting.
Scott Refuse*
Senator Stan Arkin had earlier said something about Fitz Randolph's handling of the meeting after the president refused to act on Arkin's motion to reconsider the passage of the amendment..
“We can’t let a chairman overrule our constitutional rights,” he asserted. “A motion to reconsider is a fundamental right.” The Senate, however, supported the president's ruling that Arkin was out of order.
Fitz Randolph at the beginning of the meeting had suspended the Senate’s bylaws in order to act on the amendment, originally proposed by Denny Kouri. Trojan Chest chairman.
Arkin and Loshin fought all the way against a further amendment by Senator Trish Dwyer, but the body passed both Kouri’s and Miss Dwyer's amendments.
The type of person the world has honored in past eras of his- ; tory and the type being acclaim- 1 ed in the present age of science will be discussed by Dr. Nor- ; man Topping, university president, at a special scholarship : assembly slated for 10 a.m. to-1 morrow in Bovard Auditorium. ' Dr. Topping, who will speak j
NORMAN TOPPING
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on “Honor Among Men,” will advance suggestions on the type of man worthy of honor in the modern world.
The administration and faculty will honor 650 undergraduates who have outstanding scholastic records at the assembly. Groups to receive recognition include undergraduate students selected for academic scholarships and undergraduate members of national and local scholastic honor societies which require a minimum 3.0 grade point average for membership.
Also honored • will be undergraduates in all schools and colleges who have achieved a 3.5 grade point average during the past two semesters, and freshman students who received Honors-at-Ent ranee recognition for the academic year 1958-59.
Representing the faculty will be Dr. Bruce McEIderry, chairman of the Faculty Senate, who will si>eak on “Scholarship in the University.”
Dr. Albert Raubenheimer, vice president for academic affairs, will preside. The invocation and benediction will be given by the Rev. Clinton A. Neyman, university chaplain.	|
Free World Avoids Philosophy ChallengeofToday-Werkmeister
The real issue of our times is not at all military but philosophical, Dr. William H. Werkmeis-ter, director of the School of Philosophy, told the Faculty Club yesterday.
Modern man has overlooked basic philosophical challenges,” he said. “We have sought to define the struggle of the free world in terms that would give us an excuse to avoid the basic philosophical challenge presented by ‘dialectical man’.”
Dr. Werkmeister expressed his fear that our own thinking about man has been implicated in many of the premises upon w h i c h dialetical materialism rests.
Science Basis
“What is really in question, however, is not science in its legitimate field with application to specific methods but a boundary transgression,” Dr. Werkmeister said.
He defined this “metascience” as “scientism” and said if it is j correct, the case of communism ' is stronger than the case for the i way of life.
| “Marx and Engels claimed scientific basis for all their i work,” he explained. "There is a connection between Marxism and the scientific thesis that everything can be accounted for in material-naturalistic terms.’’ He reported that this “scien-: tistic ideal” is virtually identical j in the free world and in the j communistic world and named it i as the most alarming issue of today.
“This ‘scientistic’ thesis already pervades our social sciences to an alarming extent,” Dr. Werkmeister declared.
He asserted that all of the books on the social sciences published between 1936-47 by respectable social scientists are guilty of scientism.
Science of Society “The aim of all of these books is the systematic elimination of values from the domain of science,” he said. “The remaining theoretical structure is to constitute a positive natural science of society.”
If this happens, values will be identified with the substruc-
ture of behavior and with the real determinants of thought and action, he explained.
"Human ideals will be equated with facts, losing their distinctive qualities.
Human Fniquene**
“There emerges a scientistic model of man and society, indifferent to indefinable human uniqueness,” he continued.
Dr. Werkmeister maintained that it is this human uniqueness which still makes it reasonable to speak of man's moral freedom and moral responsibility.
"I am not arguing against any legitimate science." Dr. Werkmeister stated. “My concern is with that boundary transgression which I have identified as ‘scientism*,”
Dr. Werkmeister said his concern is also with the humanities whose legitimate domain is the realm of values.
“And my concern is with our \ neglect of the humanities at a I time when they should be pushed f into the forefront of the strug-i gle for man's vaiues and man s I soul;».”