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CORE director to highlight program A discussion by Floyd McKissick. national director of ('ORE. will highlight next week’s three-day Interchange: The Black Community—USC. The Interchange program was released yesterday by Bob Lutz, vice-president of university affairs for the ASSC. Interchange is one of the major programs sponsored by the ASSC this semester with money from the student programming fee. The conference will begin Monday with a look at “The Generic Problems.*’ James Corman, congressman from the 22nd district and a member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, will open the conference with a talk on “Violence in the Cities,” at 10 a.m. in Town and Gown Foyer. Other programs Monday will include a speech by Herbert Hill, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People labor director, on “Employment, Race and Poverty in the Urban Ghetto;’’ and a panel with actors Paul Winfield and Denis Roberts on “The Role of the Black Artist.” Two landmark films, “Good Luck and Goodbye,” and “A Time for Burning” will be shown that night. Tuesday’s “Focus on the Community” will be highlighted at 8 p.m. with McKissick’s discussion in Town and Gown. Other programs Tuesday will include Thomas Sheridan, executive director of the 1965 Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, speaking on “Since the Report;” Billy Mills, Los Angeles City councilman, talking on “Politics and Community Representation;” James Fisk, Los Angeles Police public relations director, discussing “Human Rights in Law Enforcement;” and Mrs. Mary Henry, assistant to the director of the L.A. Economic Opportuni-1 ties Agency and L.A. Times Woman of the Year, speaking on “Community Action.” Late in the afternoon the Men’s Halls Association will sponsor a campus visit by upperclassmen from Manual Arts High School to see the opportunities at USC. The conference will conclude Wednesday with a look at “USC and the Black Community.” Dr. Nathan Glazer and Horace Cayton, sociologists, will speak separately on “The Role of a University’ ’and then will appear on a panel together to answer student questions. Thomas Nickell, vice-president of university planning, will speak on “Achievements of USC in the Community;” and a panel will discuss “What We Must Do.” The Interchange Committee has also planned an open discussion of the conference between students and faculty in the Grill Saturday night. osan scholars vicronous again By \l\Rk VASCHE Wi.-lanl (lily Edilor A wild scoring splurge of 185 consecutive points spelled success for USC and carried four Trojan scholars to their second straight win on the GE College Bowl Sunday night. By virtue of the 2i)5 to 2t>0 win over City College of New York, USC gained another $3,000 scholarship grant and a chance to increase its winnings this Sunday against St. John's University. The match will be aired locally at 6 p.m. on Channel 4. The USC team of Richard Hilton, captain. Marcia Hastie, Barcley Edmundson. and Gary Cohm. started fast against CCNY and built up an insurmountable margin. CCNY took the lead first with two correct answers to USC's one. The Eastern scholars increased their lead to 80 to 45 . USC bounced light back, however, and took the lead 85 to 80. CCNY never again came close to regaining the lead. The Trojan team played cooly and calmly and held a 115 to 80 lead at halftime. After the break, USC went back to work and scored 155 more points without an answer from CCNY. The scoreboard read, USC 270 and CCNY 80. CCNY dominated the rest of the action, scoring ISO points to USC's 15, but the comeback fell short as the final whistle sounded. The victory left USC with a season record of two wins and no losses. It also pushed the Trojans over the .500 mark with a total record of 2-1. In 1959. the first year of the quiz show. USC was defeated by a team from Barnard College. Dr. James McBath, chairman of the Speech Department and coach of the team, called the victory satisfying, but added that “the first victory (over Furman University last week) was incomparable. “The Furman team was a successful champion. It was fresh off victories over two top schools.” He said the Furman scholars were stronger as a team, but that the students from CCNY were stronger individually. “When CCNY started its comeback, the people in the audience could see that it would fall short. Time was running out very quickly, so things weren't as bad as they looked," Dr. McBath said. “CCNY was supremely confident. It was a brilliant team and we were very happy to defeat them. ’ After the match, the scholars reviewed the show, looking for ways to improve. “We still think we can take more time in consultation on the bonus questions. We need to tap the collective resources of the team,” McBath said. He explained that the toss-up question requires individual recall and immediate reaction, whereas the bonus question requires team effort. Dr. McBath credited the latest victory partly on luck. “Success goes in streaks. We simply had an excellent series of questions,” he said. The USC scholars will leave again tomorrow night for New York, where they will visit several small museums before the Sunday match. On the topic of thus week's opponent, St. John's. McBath said, “All we know is that it is an academically strong Catholic liberal arts college.” It is located in Collegeville. Minn. He also pointed out that the winner of this week's contest will meet scholars from Syracuse University on March 17. If USC survives this Sunday’s contest and continues to win. it will be retired as an undefeated champion after five appearances on the show. With that honor would go an additional $3,000 grant, and consequently, a total winning sum of $18,000. USC scholars have won $6,000 so far. Dr. McBath was optimistic over the chances of the Trojan team continuing its winning ways. DAILY University of Southern California TROJAN VOL. LIX LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6,1968 72 NO. 21 ASSC candidate Rafferty states presidential aims Gary Rafferty stood on a platform of student participation and involvement yesterday as he became the first candidate to officially announce for the ASSC presidency. “If wre are ever to have a participating campus,” the junior economics major told the Daily Trojan, “the many imaginative and creative programs in all phases of campus life need to be taken out into the student community. “If elected. I would do this.” Rafferty’s four major points include: 1. Neighborhood Relations Program, a proposal for “the students of USC to accept a commitment to help the people of our neighborhood.” 2. Focus: 21st Century, a forum of leading men focusing on what students can expect from their field through the year 2000. 3. First Voters’ Convocations, a program to bring major parties’ candidates to address the campus this fall, as was done during the 1960 election. 4. America Brother Program, a plan to establish a relationship between each new foreign student and an American student, “to provide an exchange of viewpoints with an accompanying cultural enrichment for both students.” Rafferty, a member of Phi Sigma Shumway elected to Board of Trustees SDS DEMONSTRATES Forrest N. Shumway Doll napalmed in protest By MIKE PARFIT City Editor A student gingerly opened a jar of homemade napalm and started to smear the pink, sticky substance onto a plastic doll w'hich was nailed to a tin foil-covered cross. As he struck a match and set fire to the doll several men with newsreel cameras propped on their shoulders and tape recorders strapped to their belts moved in to record the moment of protest. The doll, wrhich quickly burned into a black, misshapen mass, was the victim of a demonstration against napalm staged yesterday by members of Students for a Democratic Society. The protest was held in conjunction with a visit to the campus of Dow Chemical Co.. recruiters. Dow manufactures all napalm used in the Vietnam war. “We are not demonstrating specifically against Dow,” said John Sack, one of the organizers of the demonstration. “It’s not significant who is making it. We want to indict the American people for allowing napalm John Sack (left) is interviewed during napalm protest to be made and allowing the government to use it.” The newsmen, who had been telephoned the night before by members of the protesting group, focused their cameras alternately on the flaming doll, on a sign reading “I am a human and nothing can be of indifference to me,” on Sack and his fellow demonstrators and on the curious faces of the bystanders. “This is a symbolic thing,” Sack said. “That’s why we didn’t make speeches or hand out pamphlets or anything. We felt that this was a symbolic act.” Several men in Air Force ROTC uniforms passed the demonstration and paused for a moment to watch. An older man stopped and said, vehemently. “I don’t see how you can respect the views of people who look like that.” A woman standing in the back of the crowd stood on tiptoe to look at the black, smoking remains of the doll and said to her companion, “Nobody’s got the guts to bum themselves.” “It’s very easy to make,” said one of the demonstrators. “You just mix gas and polyethylene.” On the other side of the campus, in Bruce Hall, the Dow Co. recruiters, W. L. Hendershot and Glenn Allen, were solidly booked up talking to prospective employees. “Dow does not object to demonstrations,” Allen said. “One of the great things about this country is that people can demonstrate to show their feelings. The problems occur when they try to interfere with the channels of normal communication.” Forrest N. Shumway, a Los Angeles oil company executive, has been elected to the Board of Trustees. His election brings the number of trustees to 30. Shumway, 40, was originally a resident of Skowhegan, Maine, and graduated from Massachusetts’ Deerfield Academy in 1945. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, he received a bachelor of arts degree in political science and, in 1952, received a law degree from Stanford. While at Stanford, Shumway began his oil career as a roustabout and drilling crew member on Signal Hill during summer vacations. After obtaining his law degree, he served as a senior law clerk and deputy county counsel in the office of the Los Angeles County Counsel before joining the Signal Oil and Gas Company’s legal department in 1957. He became president of Signal in 1964 after serving as secretary of the company, assistant general counsel, vice-president, general counsel and a member of the board of directors. In addition to his post at Signal, Shumway is a member of the state bar and is qualified to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the board of directors of the Garrett Corporation, Standard Insurance Company and Mack Trucks, Inc. The new university trustee is also a director of the American Petroleum Institute and the executive committee of the Western Oil and Gas Association, a member of the National Petroleum Council and a director of the Independent Colleges of Southern California. Shumway also holds posts on the board of governors of Town Hall, and on the executive board of the Los Angeles Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. FORMS READY FOR STUDENT OFFICES Petitions for ASSC, WHA and MHA offices will be available starting today. The petitions may be picked up in 321 Student Union. Signed petitions must be turned in by March 15. Kappa and chairman of the Helen of Troy Committee for the past two years, said he hoped his programs would initiate “direct contact with large numbers of students. “This campus needs the programs that I’m presenting, and I think I’ll be able to make this into a participating campus.” Rafferty's Neighborhood Relations Program, the most elaborately outlined of his four proposals, calls for USC students to help residents of the surrounding areas “seize every opportunity to enter the mainstream of modern American life, and where these opportunities do not exist, to create them.” The program would have six specific goals for improving the area, which would match elementary school boundaries betwreen Adams Boulevard. Alameda Street. Florence Avenue and Western Boulevard. 1. Expand existing programs, such as Troy Camp and the Tutorial Project, to support their potential for expansion. 2. Organize sports leagues, scout: ing, 4-H and business fund-raising for youth activities. 3. Sponsor one youth festival each semester with the four high schools in the area to provide youth competition in arts, social entertainment and a carnival operated by service groups. 4. Organize Project Dialogue, a schedule of informal discussion groups where area residents w’ould invite their neighbors into their homes to talk with USC students and faculty. 5. Help the area’s residents organize service groups and neighborhood improvement committees. 6. Seek the cooperation of the Management Council of Los Angeles in organizing a counseling and guidance service to work with the hardcore unemployed in securing voca- Gary Rafferty tional training, additional schooling and jobs. Rafferty has served on the Troy Camp Committee and as a camp counselor, and is a member of the International House. He has also participated in the Freshman Forum, Project FASTEN Idyhvild conferences and Knights and Squires service groups. COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER TO SPEAK Mrs. Dorothy Healey, a leading spokesman of the Communist Party of the United States, will speak tonight at 6 at the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house. Mrs. Healey will be accompanied by the youth committee chairman of her party. She will speak on the Vietnam war. Mrs. Healey ran for Los Angeles County assessor last year and lost. The talk is one of a series of public service lectures being presented by the social fraternity. ASSC Council resets date for April election With ASSC elections only three and one half weeks away, the ASSC Executive Council voted yesterday to change the dates originally set by the Elections Commission, feeling that not enough time was allotted between the primary ballot and final election. The decision for the rescheduling of the primary, wiiich was set for April 1 and 2, came at the suggestion of Bob Lutz, vice-president for university affairs. He said that one day was not enough time for a candidate to regroup forces and support for a run-off ballot. The final election is scheduled for April 4 and 5. It will be up to Ray Cochard, election commissioner, to reschedule the preliminary ballot. In conjunction with upcoming campaigns, two amendments to the Elections Code were considered by the council. The first would give the elections commissioner the power to set the length of the official campaign period, depending on the circumstances of the particular election. “A week is long enough for a campaign,” Shelley Linderman, senior class representative, said. “If you make it any longer than that, you increase the costs, especially of publicity. The more money a candidate has, the more publicity he is able to obtain. and the more likely he is to win. We ought to limit the campaign period to a week.” “I disagree,” Norm Wilky, vice-president for student activities, said. “An extra three days wouldn’t necessarily be spent putting up posters. The time can be spent talking to people in areas a candidate might otherwise not be able to cover.” Marty Foley, ASSC president, agreed. “A campaign period of a week would be grossly limiting the candidates.” he said. The second amendment would require that at least two polling places be established for an election, the first of which must be located in front of Bovard Auditorium and by the Medical School. The amendments passed with only Linderman voting no. Procedures for the coming election were reviewed. There will be 10 polling places located in front of the Engineering School, Architecture, between the Law and Business Schools, in front of the School of Dentistry and Medicine. in all the dormitories, in front of Bovard Auditorium and on the Row, probably in front of the International House. Each table will have a list of all students. Voting will be on IBM card ballots. Those wishing to vote need only present their identification cards.
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Title | Daily Trojan, Vol. 59, No. 84, March 06, 1968 |
Full text | CORE director to highlight program A discussion by Floyd McKissick. national director of ('ORE. will highlight next week’s three-day Interchange: The Black Community—USC. The Interchange program was released yesterday by Bob Lutz, vice-president of university affairs for the ASSC. Interchange is one of the major programs sponsored by the ASSC this semester with money from the student programming fee. The conference will begin Monday with a look at “The Generic Problems.*’ James Corman, congressman from the 22nd district and a member of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, will open the conference with a talk on “Violence in the Cities,” at 10 a.m. in Town and Gown Foyer. Other programs Monday will include a speech by Herbert Hill, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People labor director, on “Employment, Race and Poverty in the Urban Ghetto;’’ and a panel with actors Paul Winfield and Denis Roberts on “The Role of the Black Artist.” Two landmark films, “Good Luck and Goodbye,” and “A Time for Burning” will be shown that night. Tuesday’s “Focus on the Community” will be highlighted at 8 p.m. with McKissick’s discussion in Town and Gown. Other programs Tuesday will include Thomas Sheridan, executive director of the 1965 Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, speaking on “Since the Report;” Billy Mills, Los Angeles City councilman, talking on “Politics and Community Representation;” James Fisk, Los Angeles Police public relations director, discussing “Human Rights in Law Enforcement;” and Mrs. Mary Henry, assistant to the director of the L.A. Economic Opportuni-1 ties Agency and L.A. Times Woman of the Year, speaking on “Community Action.” Late in the afternoon the Men’s Halls Association will sponsor a campus visit by upperclassmen from Manual Arts High School to see the opportunities at USC. The conference will conclude Wednesday with a look at “USC and the Black Community.” Dr. Nathan Glazer and Horace Cayton, sociologists, will speak separately on “The Role of a University’ ’and then will appear on a panel together to answer student questions. Thomas Nickell, vice-president of university planning, will speak on “Achievements of USC in the Community;” and a panel will discuss “What We Must Do.” The Interchange Committee has also planned an open discussion of the conference between students and faculty in the Grill Saturday night. osan scholars vicronous again By \l\Rk VASCHE Wi.-lanl (lily Edilor A wild scoring splurge of 185 consecutive points spelled success for USC and carried four Trojan scholars to their second straight win on the GE College Bowl Sunday night. By virtue of the 2i)5 to 2t>0 win over City College of New York, USC gained another $3,000 scholarship grant and a chance to increase its winnings this Sunday against St. John's University. The match will be aired locally at 6 p.m. on Channel 4. The USC team of Richard Hilton, captain. Marcia Hastie, Barcley Edmundson. and Gary Cohm. started fast against CCNY and built up an insurmountable margin. CCNY took the lead first with two correct answers to USC's one. The Eastern scholars increased their lead to 80 to 45 . USC bounced light back, however, and took the lead 85 to 80. CCNY never again came close to regaining the lead. The Trojan team played cooly and calmly and held a 115 to 80 lead at halftime. After the break, USC went back to work and scored 155 more points without an answer from CCNY. The scoreboard read, USC 270 and CCNY 80. CCNY dominated the rest of the action, scoring ISO points to USC's 15, but the comeback fell short as the final whistle sounded. The victory left USC with a season record of two wins and no losses. It also pushed the Trojans over the .500 mark with a total record of 2-1. In 1959. the first year of the quiz show. USC was defeated by a team from Barnard College. Dr. James McBath, chairman of the Speech Department and coach of the team, called the victory satisfying, but added that “the first victory (over Furman University last week) was incomparable. “The Furman team was a successful champion. It was fresh off victories over two top schools.” He said the Furman scholars were stronger as a team, but that the students from CCNY were stronger individually. “When CCNY started its comeback, the people in the audience could see that it would fall short. Time was running out very quickly, so things weren't as bad as they looked," Dr. McBath said. “CCNY was supremely confident. It was a brilliant team and we were very happy to defeat them. ’ After the match, the scholars reviewed the show, looking for ways to improve. “We still think we can take more time in consultation on the bonus questions. We need to tap the collective resources of the team,” McBath said. He explained that the toss-up question requires individual recall and immediate reaction, whereas the bonus question requires team effort. Dr. McBath credited the latest victory partly on luck. “Success goes in streaks. We simply had an excellent series of questions,” he said. The USC scholars will leave again tomorrow night for New York, where they will visit several small museums before the Sunday match. On the topic of thus week's opponent, St. John's. McBath said, “All we know is that it is an academically strong Catholic liberal arts college.” It is located in Collegeville. Minn. He also pointed out that the winner of this week's contest will meet scholars from Syracuse University on March 17. If USC survives this Sunday’s contest and continues to win. it will be retired as an undefeated champion after five appearances on the show. With that honor would go an additional $3,000 grant, and consequently, a total winning sum of $18,000. USC scholars have won $6,000 so far. Dr. McBath was optimistic over the chances of the Trojan team continuing its winning ways. DAILY University of Southern California TROJAN VOL. LIX LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6,1968 72 NO. 21 ASSC candidate Rafferty states presidential aims Gary Rafferty stood on a platform of student participation and involvement yesterday as he became the first candidate to officially announce for the ASSC presidency. “If wre are ever to have a participating campus,” the junior economics major told the Daily Trojan, “the many imaginative and creative programs in all phases of campus life need to be taken out into the student community. “If elected. I would do this.” Rafferty’s four major points include: 1. Neighborhood Relations Program, a proposal for “the students of USC to accept a commitment to help the people of our neighborhood.” 2. Focus: 21st Century, a forum of leading men focusing on what students can expect from their field through the year 2000. 3. First Voters’ Convocations, a program to bring major parties’ candidates to address the campus this fall, as was done during the 1960 election. 4. America Brother Program, a plan to establish a relationship between each new foreign student and an American student, “to provide an exchange of viewpoints with an accompanying cultural enrichment for both students.” Rafferty, a member of Phi Sigma Shumway elected to Board of Trustees SDS DEMONSTRATES Forrest N. Shumway Doll napalmed in protest By MIKE PARFIT City Editor A student gingerly opened a jar of homemade napalm and started to smear the pink, sticky substance onto a plastic doll w'hich was nailed to a tin foil-covered cross. As he struck a match and set fire to the doll several men with newsreel cameras propped on their shoulders and tape recorders strapped to their belts moved in to record the moment of protest. The doll, wrhich quickly burned into a black, misshapen mass, was the victim of a demonstration against napalm staged yesterday by members of Students for a Democratic Society. The protest was held in conjunction with a visit to the campus of Dow Chemical Co.. recruiters. Dow manufactures all napalm used in the Vietnam war. “We are not demonstrating specifically against Dow,” said John Sack, one of the organizers of the demonstration. “It’s not significant who is making it. We want to indict the American people for allowing napalm John Sack (left) is interviewed during napalm protest to be made and allowing the government to use it.” The newsmen, who had been telephoned the night before by members of the protesting group, focused their cameras alternately on the flaming doll, on a sign reading “I am a human and nothing can be of indifference to me,” on Sack and his fellow demonstrators and on the curious faces of the bystanders. “This is a symbolic thing,” Sack said. “That’s why we didn’t make speeches or hand out pamphlets or anything. We felt that this was a symbolic act.” Several men in Air Force ROTC uniforms passed the demonstration and paused for a moment to watch. An older man stopped and said, vehemently. “I don’t see how you can respect the views of people who look like that.” A woman standing in the back of the crowd stood on tiptoe to look at the black, smoking remains of the doll and said to her companion, “Nobody’s got the guts to bum themselves.” “It’s very easy to make,” said one of the demonstrators. “You just mix gas and polyethylene.” On the other side of the campus, in Bruce Hall, the Dow Co. recruiters, W. L. Hendershot and Glenn Allen, were solidly booked up talking to prospective employees. “Dow does not object to demonstrations,” Allen said. “One of the great things about this country is that people can demonstrate to show their feelings. The problems occur when they try to interfere with the channels of normal communication.” Forrest N. Shumway, a Los Angeles oil company executive, has been elected to the Board of Trustees. His election brings the number of trustees to 30. Shumway, 40, was originally a resident of Skowhegan, Maine, and graduated from Massachusetts’ Deerfield Academy in 1945. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, he received a bachelor of arts degree in political science and, in 1952, received a law degree from Stanford. While at Stanford, Shumway began his oil career as a roustabout and drilling crew member on Signal Hill during summer vacations. After obtaining his law degree, he served as a senior law clerk and deputy county counsel in the office of the Los Angeles County Counsel before joining the Signal Oil and Gas Company’s legal department in 1957. He became president of Signal in 1964 after serving as secretary of the company, assistant general counsel, vice-president, general counsel and a member of the board of directors. In addition to his post at Signal, Shumway is a member of the state bar and is qualified to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the board of directors of the Garrett Corporation, Standard Insurance Company and Mack Trucks, Inc. The new university trustee is also a director of the American Petroleum Institute and the executive committee of the Western Oil and Gas Association, a member of the National Petroleum Council and a director of the Independent Colleges of Southern California. Shumway also holds posts on the board of governors of Town Hall, and on the executive board of the Los Angeles Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. FORMS READY FOR STUDENT OFFICES Petitions for ASSC, WHA and MHA offices will be available starting today. The petitions may be picked up in 321 Student Union. Signed petitions must be turned in by March 15. Kappa and chairman of the Helen of Troy Committee for the past two years, said he hoped his programs would initiate “direct contact with large numbers of students. “This campus needs the programs that I’m presenting, and I think I’ll be able to make this into a participating campus.” Rafferty's Neighborhood Relations Program, the most elaborately outlined of his four proposals, calls for USC students to help residents of the surrounding areas “seize every opportunity to enter the mainstream of modern American life, and where these opportunities do not exist, to create them.” The program would have six specific goals for improving the area, which would match elementary school boundaries betwreen Adams Boulevard. Alameda Street. Florence Avenue and Western Boulevard. 1. Expand existing programs, such as Troy Camp and the Tutorial Project, to support their potential for expansion. 2. Organize sports leagues, scout: ing, 4-H and business fund-raising for youth activities. 3. Sponsor one youth festival each semester with the four high schools in the area to provide youth competition in arts, social entertainment and a carnival operated by service groups. 4. Organize Project Dialogue, a schedule of informal discussion groups where area residents w’ould invite their neighbors into their homes to talk with USC students and faculty. 5. Help the area’s residents organize service groups and neighborhood improvement committees. 6. Seek the cooperation of the Management Council of Los Angeles in organizing a counseling and guidance service to work with the hardcore unemployed in securing voca- Gary Rafferty tional training, additional schooling and jobs. Rafferty has served on the Troy Camp Committee and as a camp counselor, and is a member of the International House. He has also participated in the Freshman Forum, Project FASTEN Idyhvild conferences and Knights and Squires service groups. COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER TO SPEAK Mrs. Dorothy Healey, a leading spokesman of the Communist Party of the United States, will speak tonight at 6 at the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house. Mrs. Healey will be accompanied by the youth committee chairman of her party. She will speak on the Vietnam war. Mrs. Healey ran for Los Angeles County assessor last year and lost. The talk is one of a series of public service lectures being presented by the social fraternity. ASSC Council resets date for April election With ASSC elections only three and one half weeks away, the ASSC Executive Council voted yesterday to change the dates originally set by the Elections Commission, feeling that not enough time was allotted between the primary ballot and final election. The decision for the rescheduling of the primary, wiiich was set for April 1 and 2, came at the suggestion of Bob Lutz, vice-president for university affairs. He said that one day was not enough time for a candidate to regroup forces and support for a run-off ballot. The final election is scheduled for April 4 and 5. It will be up to Ray Cochard, election commissioner, to reschedule the preliminary ballot. In conjunction with upcoming campaigns, two amendments to the Elections Code were considered by the council. The first would give the elections commissioner the power to set the length of the official campaign period, depending on the circumstances of the particular election. “A week is long enough for a campaign,” Shelley Linderman, senior class representative, said. “If you make it any longer than that, you increase the costs, especially of publicity. The more money a candidate has, the more publicity he is able to obtain. and the more likely he is to win. We ought to limit the campaign period to a week.” “I disagree,” Norm Wilky, vice-president for student activities, said. “An extra three days wouldn’t necessarily be spent putting up posters. The time can be spent talking to people in areas a candidate might otherwise not be able to cover.” Marty Foley, ASSC president, agreed. “A campaign period of a week would be grossly limiting the candidates.” he said. The second amendment would require that at least two polling places be established for an election, the first of which must be located in front of Bovard Auditorium and by the Medical School. The amendments passed with only Linderman voting no. Procedures for the coming election were reviewed. There will be 10 polling places located in front of the Engineering School, Architecture, between the Law and Business Schools, in front of the School of Dentistry and Medicine. in all the dormitories, in front of Bovard Auditorium and on the Row, probably in front of the International House. Each table will have a list of all students. Voting will be on IBM card ballots. Those wishing to vote need only present their identification cards. |
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