Polls open for election runoff
By PETER WONG
Voting for the offices of AMS president and ASSC freshman representative will be conducted today from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of Bovard Hall.
James Lacy will oppose Don Ramsey for the freshman representative post, and Colin Kurata will face John McGuinness for the AMS presidency. The contenders won runoff spots in last week's election.
Also on today's ballot are three proposed amendments to the ASSC Constitution which clarify the status of the international student representative on the ASSC Executive Council.
The three amendments were on last week's ballot, but the ASSC Student Court invalidated the election because of the lack of advance publicity.
The first proposal establishes the international student representative as an elected officer of the ASSC:
Amend Article III. Section 1 to read.
“The elective officers of this Association shall be President, Vice President for Programs. Vice President for Academic Affairs, Associated Men Students' President, Associated Women Students' President, President for the Senior Class, one International Student Representative. one representative from each undergraduate class, and six graduate student representatives."
The second proposal specifies the duties of this officer:
Amend Article III, Section 1 to include, “I. The International Student Representative shall represent the foreign students to the Executive Council."
The third proposal establishes eligibility:
Amend Article VI, Section 1 to include, “F. International Student Representative shall be a foreign student who will have completed at least two academic semesters at the University by the end of the semester in which he is elected.
Qualifications for being a foreign student shall be in accordance with the procedure established by the Office for International Students and Scholars."
At present, the ASSC Constitution does not specify the duties or the eligibility requirements for the International Student Representative, though he has one vote on the ASSC Executive Council.
A debate between Kurata and McGuinness, originally set for Monday at 8:30 p.m., did not occur because Kurata failed to appear.
However, Kurata claimed neither McGuinness nor his campaign workers never told him about a debate and that he first found out about it in Friday's Daily Trojan.
“I don't think there can be much dialogue if only one candidate sets a time and a date for a debate, yet consults no one on the format," Kurata said.
“I certainly hope this is not the type of politics that we want more of in student
government."
McGuinness explained later that he went to the Daily Trojan to issue his challenge to debate with Kurata. He said he left his telephone number with the Daily Trojan offices so that Kurata could contact him.
Apparently Kurata did not reply to McGuinness' challenge because he did not get the telephone number due to some misunderstanding.
At the debate, a representative for Kurata read a prepared statement to the 30 students in Marks Hall lounge explaining that Kurata had not been notified of the debate. Afterwards, Kurata and McGuinness met and cleared up the confusion.
“I would have been very pleased to participate in a debate, so long as my opponent and I had set up a format beforehand," Kurata said.
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Hughes speech at noon
Harold Hughes, considered a potential dark-horse presidential candidate tor 1972, will speak today at noon in Bovard Auditorium. Hughes, Democratic senator from Iowa, will appear as part of the ASSC Great Issues Forum.
The 47-year-old senator has risen from a truck driver and alcoholic to a unique political personality and possibly the youth candidate in 1972.
He is regarded as an outspoken liberal with youth-oriented views on war, drugs and law and order.
IT’S LEGAL NOW
Dorm resident jubilantly spreads the good news
LIQUOR IN DORMS
Students leary of motives
By STEPHEN KAPLAN
The trustees' Oct. 7 decision to permit students 21 and over to consume alcoholic beverages in the dorms has led to some
interesting responses from people on campus.
Although the majority of people interviewed support the trustees' decision, many ques-
tioned both the tardiness and reasoning behind the policy change.
—“I think it's okay, but the administration approved it quickly only because it was beneficial to them and the alumni." (During homecoming last year, students charged that alumni were illegally drinking on campus and that the administration was making no attempt to stop it while at the same time enforcing alcohol rules in living units.)
—“People are going to drink anyway, so why don't they do something practical like having coed dorms?"
—“They should legalize marijuana in the dorms. "
—“Living areas should be free from all controls - they should be like home."
—“Fantastic, it should have happened about 50 years ago."
—“Too bad it took so long for this small step to happen."
—“It doesn't make any difference. everybody was doing it anyway."
Some will say that students don't appreciate anything anymore. But their responses seem to indicate that questioning the rationale behind the trustees' decision is quite legitimate in this instance.
‘Year of Pig’ highlights evening movie offerings
“In the Year of the Pig," a powerful indictment against the Vietnam War, will highlight this evening s film offerings.
The film, which is part of the ASSC Radical Film Series, will be shown in Hancock Auditorium at 8 and 10 p.m. Admission is $1.
“This is one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries on the Vietnam War," Ken Foster, entertainment coordinator, said. “It starts out with the French involvement after World War II and chronologically leads up to the present American involvement."
Though past attendance to the Radical Film Series has been low. Foster hopes that it will improve with this film, so that a similar series can be offered in the future.
Delta Kappa Alpha will be showing the controversial “Dear John, at 7 and 9.30 p.m. in Founders Hall 133 for $1. Nominated for an academy award, the film was one of the pioneer Swedish sex films.
"The Graduate, which launched the careers of Dustin Hoffman and Katherine Ross, will be shown by the Trojan Honor Guard in Edison Auditorium of Hoffman Hall at 7. 9:15 and 11:30 p.m for $1.
Special Halloween films will be presented Friday evening. The Honor Guard will sponsor a double feature. “The Best House in London and “The Time Machine." at 6 and 9:30 p.m. in Edison Auditorium DKA will be showing “ The Fearless Vampire Killers or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck." at 7 and 9:30 p.m. in Founders Hall 133. It stars the late Sharon Tate and was directed by her husband Roman Polanski. It is a spoof of the old vampire films.
Slash in military spending urged
By BARBARAJONES
To cut the military budget and channel the leftover funds toward solving America's internal problems was the major point of businessman Harold Willens' speech on the Military-Industrial Complex.
Willens spoke Monday in the Allan Hancock Foundation Audi torium to a small but intensely concerned audience. He said the military-industrial complex has “misdirected our foreign policy, steered us into Vietnam, inflated the economy and consumed resources needed elsewhere.”
Last year Willens and some associates founded the Businessmen’s Educational Fund which seeks to convince businessmen that they can no longer rely on the military to direct an outdated foreign policy which is contrary to the national interest.
Military spending has increased $68 billion from the $12 billion figure in 1948. because a military man is trained to intensify the arms race.
Willens, the BEF chairman and millionaire president of Factory Equipment Supply Corp. in Los Angeles, admitted the difficulty in making a military budget cut, because many people earn their living from the military, and they have no alternative employment opportunities.
One problem that is holding back technological capabilities to solve environmental problems is the use of scare tactics to alarm Americans and push Congress to approve large appropriations for the Pentagon.
“While retaining adequate defense capability, it is time to abandon the archaic notion that Russia is about to roll over the Western Europe or gobble up large sections of the earth,” Willens said.
He called attention to another component of the complex that only education can do away with. Using the American Security Council, as an example, he pointed to their circulars that frighten people by telling them the United States is falling behind the Soviet Union in the production of nuclear weapons.
This creates a serious problem of equating national security with continuous escalation of the military.
“Sadly enough,” he said, “there seems to be support from the White House for the tactics of the ASC.”
How can we be worried about weakness when “our military arsenal contains explosive power equivalent to 15 tons of TNT for every man. woman and child on earth?
These questions must be investigated and common sense must be used to help us gain a sense of proportion in our national priorities.
If we would take the first step by cutting the military budget by 25 percent in the next year, Russia would undoubtedly feel a great deal of international pressure to follow suit. Besides, their domestic problems are on a scale with ours.
Even if they do not follow our lead, our arsenal is full enough to provide enough protection for a one year period in which we may experiment.