Sill K- 000, date 140 the us a at Rain RAIN THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Field House Floor Still Uncertain The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas 82nd Year, No.108 Friday, March 17, 1972 See Page 3 Kansan Staff Photo by KIT NETZER University Commitment Wins Landslide Election . Allen and Dillon lead party to victory . . Experience, Numbers Key Factors In Commitment's Strong Showing By JIM KENDELL Kansan Staff Writer Dave Dillon's solid presidential victory came as no surprise to close watchers of the election. The Hutchinson junior had a number of factors working in his favor. The strength had experience of Dillon's ticket were two of these factors. Dillon's University Commitment won 44 Student Union election in this election, and lost only eight. The rival KU Student Party, headed by Mohammed Ammed Rauf, Rafsenjan, Iran, senior running for president won only 13 seats, losing 32. Eleven senators and the former president, vice-president and treasurer of the student body ran with the University commitment. Only two of these senators left. The traditionally strong fraternity and sorority vote could have been another significant factor in Dillon's election. Its members had a significant small turnout, 22 per cent of the student body. Dillon is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. Dillon claimed that the fraternity and sorority vote was not a factor in the election. The strength of this vote will not be known until a breakdown of the number of students who voted at each poll is released. Dillon's organization was further strengthened by his campaign manager, Braydon Feldman. Analysis junior. Duncan's experience in KU elections was an obvious asset. Duncan has been advisor to the elections committee for two years. Amin was hampered by a presumably low independent turnout. None of the KUNP candidates had previous experience before Senate and most are not well known. Dillon said the size of the presidential Hackney Named Winner In Senior Class Contest By STEVE REIL Kansan Staff Writer Voting for senior class officers produced a rift in party solidarity. Two offices were won by members of the "Action Alliance" (A. A.琢) and two were won by the "Unification For Higher Education" (U. H. E.) party. John Hackney, Wichita, was elected senior class president by a margin of 17 votes over his closest opponent. Stowe was also affiliated with U. H., E. H., HxA with A. The results show Hackney with 379 Vice-president is Susie Cowden, Kansas City, Mo., who received 618 votes to defeat John Wulf, Morton Grove, ill., with 380 votes also with U. H. E., Wulf with A. A. The secretary and the treasurer of the senior class are both affiliated with A. A. Pum Henderson, Mission, was elected president of Nancy Anchura, Anamasa, Iowa, of U. H. E. votes, his 362 and the independent hawk, Kevin Harris, Roeland Park, with 169. See CLASS CONTEST, Page 8 vote shows student confidence in student government. Actually 800 fewer students participate. This represents a decrease of 21 per cent from last year, even though there were 19 new entrants. Dillon's 1,854 votes, 48 per cent of the total number of votes, do show that Dillon was a heavy favorite among those who did vote. Dillon has promised to continue essentially the same policies as his predecessor, David Miller, Eudora senior, who received only 22 per cent of the total vote in 1971. The passage of the field house referendum came as a surprise, even to David Miller. The fact that about 600 less people voted in the referendum than voted for president indicates the voter's lack of knowledge of the proposal. Though Chancellor E. Laurence Chambers Jr, said the $32 per cent "Yes" commitment, it is less than commitment to athletes, the margin is less than overwhelming. It might possibly represent no more than the effort to vote on yes on a question rather than no. Most of the 18 senators who ran for re-election won. Only four lost. Neither the Birthday Party nor the Oliver Coalition Independents won any part. The Independent Oliver Party did surprisingly well, winning all three seats it filed for. This minority party was led by president of Oliver Hall and a student servant of Oliver Hall and a student servant. Independents did not fare well in the senate races. Nine independents won in the runoff, including two Republican Fraternity and sorority affiliation seems to have played a large role in the decision-making process. The four candidates who won all reside in fraternity or sorority houses. Even though two separate coilations each had a woman with two opponents敌resided in "greek" houses. Dillon, Referendum Post Top Victories Rv STEVE RIEI ROBIN GROOM Kansan Staff Writers Dave Dillon, Hutchinson junior, was elected student body president with 1,854 votes of the 3,969 cast for the office in the two-day campus election that culminated with the announcement of winners early this morning. Also successful was a referendum to ask the Endowment Association to lend the Athletic Association $80,000 for the installation of an artificial surface on the floor of Allen Field House. The referendum passed by a vote of 2020 to 1243 Despite the use of 19 polling places this year as compared with the six used last year, voter turnout dropped more than 20 per cent. Dillon and Kathy Allen, Topeka sophomore, his running mate, received 48 votes to Dillon and Kathy Allen, commitment party in a sweep of Senate seats, winning both seats. Only 8 members cast ballots. ALLEN AND DILLON attributed their victory to a positive campaign and Allen, before the vote court was known, said she had been told the apparently large turnout at the polls. "I hope this election shows something about apathy at KU," she said. Last year 4,704 students or 28 per cent of the student body voted for president. This compares with 3,835 or 22 per cent of the student body during a 21 per cent drop in voter input. One losing candidate, Mike Schoenleer, vice-presidential candidate for the Birthday Party, said "We weren't surprised by the way the elections turned out," he added. "I can utilize means of communication and I more to communicate with the students." Election Turnout Low Other candidates were not so pleased. Ricky Dwyer, Joplin, Moe, senior, said "I'm going to give him a chance to go着 to have another year to operate. I'm glad that the person who spent most money got the election - it's only right. I felt like it was just a day off for picking up the literature." JOEL GREEN, Rapid City, S. D., sophomore, was sure of his defeat. He left for Rapid City earlier this week but left in September to commence the defeat of his Aardvark party: 1 'acknowledge the tacit support of the overwelling majority of students who Mohammed Amin, Rafsanjen, Iran, senior, said he was dissatisfied with the job. He said he had expected stronger support from the residence halls where much of his campaign effort had been spent. The results of the election, he said, were questionable. He indicated he would check into election procedure. Amin said he was ready for further comment until this had been done. "The one thing we tried to emphasize in this campaign is that the Senate is not worthless and this vote shows it," Dillon said. HE SAID the students turned out much better than he had expected and that the results were satisfactory. Nixon Outlines Anti-Busing Plan Nixon told a nationwide TV-radio audience Thursday night his program would "focus our efforts where they really belong—on better education for all of our children rather than on more busing for some of our children." WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon today sends Congress details of a plan to block further court-render busing of pupils from public schools for $2.5 billion into subpar schools Nixon ordered the Justice Department to "intervene in selected cases where the lower courts have gone beyond the Court's requirements in ordering busing." He said a constitutional amendment to ban bans deserved consideration but was not the immediate solution because of the need it required to enact such an amendment. THE PRESIDENT called Democratic and Republican leaders of Congress to an early morning White House conference to review his recommendations. White House officials will discuss the authoritions talk about the constitutionality of Nixon's proposals with newsmen who "What we need now is not just speaking out against more buing but action to stop it. Above all, we need to stop it in the right way—in a way that will provide better education for every child in America in a desegregated school system." regularly cover the Supreme Court NIXON SAID action was urgently needed because of some recent decisions by lower federal courts that, he said, "have gone too far, in some cases beyond the requirements laid down by the Supreme Court." Declaring that he spoke for "the great majority of Americans, black and white," Nixon reaffirmed his off-task opposition to segregation by declaring racial balance in schools. He added: Nixon acted two days after Floridians, in a straw vote with no legal effect, voted by a 3-1 margin against busing and after George C. Wallace, campaigning against busing, won the Florida Democratic primary with 43 per cent of the vote. The President unveiled his key proposal in these words: "First, I shall propose legislation that HE LEFT ALL details for today's special message. White House sources said it would be wrong to assume that the Senate approved a bill already approved by the House—that would stay court busing orders until all appeals are exhausted. The Senate approved, then rejected, a proposal to move the Senate to order to order busing to end segregation. would call an immediate hait to all new basins ordering by federal courts—a In his live TV-radio message, Nixon omitted most details of his proposed Ideal Plan. He said the legislation would concentrate federal school-aid funds in education. "That means," he said, "directing over $2.5 billion in the next year mainly toward improving the education of children from poor families." He also called for "an educational bill of rights for Mexican-Americans, Puerto Rican, Indians and others who start their work as teachers." He made it clear that he would make certain that they, too, will have equal opportunity." IN URGING LEGISLATION rather than a constitutional amendment to deal with the busing question, Nixon argued in approach" he has a fatal flaw - it takes too long. Nixon said the question of constitutional amendment 'deserves a thorough consideration by the Congress on its merits.' Declaring "basing is a bad means to a good end," *Nixon* argued it was dangerous nonsense" to contend that oppression to busing meant one is antlack. Although he acknowledged that race prejudice underlies some opposition to busing, he said "millions of concerned parents . . . oppose busing not because they are desegregation but because they are for better education for their children." Nixon said he probably would not satisfy those on either extreme of the national debate on busing but said: "I believe that the majority of Americans of all races want more busing stopped and better education started." "We are the types of candidates that can deal with the problems coming up," Delia told CNN. Kathy Allen said the sweep of the Commitment party candidates in the He said he was surprised the referendum passed, because he didn't think students would want to fund such a long-plan. Presidential Finals Dillon - Allen 1854 Amiti - McGowan 1072 Landoll - Schoenleber 480 Dyer - Arloby 180 Green - Payne 134 election came as a surprise. She attribuited to the Committee candidates to hard work in campaigning. Alen said she would do everything in her power to implement her party's platform SCHOENLEBER, vice-presidential candidate of the Birthday Party, said that Dillon had 50 people on his ticket, compared to the seven candidates on the Birthday Party State, that Dillon had people in every living group and help from a lot of influential people like Tuck Duncan. (Duncan is Dillon's campaign chairman and also adviser to the Student Senate Elections Committee.) Schoenleber said Dillon and Commitment has paid $1,000. "There were probably quite a few Dillon supporters on the election committee, said Schoenleber "That's the way politics pre." David G. Miller, outgoing student body president, said last night that he thought the referendum passed because it was true that there were very limited facilities for recreation and that a lot of students would appreciate having more. He said he thought the funding proposal was designed so that a great number of students over a long period of time would be footing the bill and at the same time there would be no extensions of the East Memorial Stadium construction of the East Memorial Stadium. I love it. The proposal is conditioned on the athletic departments raising the necessary $160,000 for the artificial surface on the floor. ★ ★ ★ Senate Election Results Following is the list of candidates who competed in elections Wednesday and Thursday for the Student Senate. The numeral after each school designation indicates how many senate seats to be occupied in each area; the member's names are printed in bold face type. Betty Adams Comm. 772 Betsy Brown Comm. 813 David Miller Comm. 809 David Dilmer Comm. 811 Cameron James Comm. 811 Jamie Hawkins Comm. 811 Lee Schwartz Comm. 811 Lewis Kidd Comm. 811 Bett Williams Ind. 130 Bill McDermott Ind. 130 Billy Reed Ind. 130 Bonnie Jo Beck R.U.S.P. 157 Benjamin P. Clement R.U.S.P. 164 Frank L. Chaucer R.U.S.P. 163 Frank S. Hancock R.U.S.P. 163 Jamie Blockmum R.U.S.P. 164 Neil Jackson R.U.S.P. 164 Neil Burdidge Comm. 150 Danny Rife 150 Jim McDowell K.I.S.P. 150 James E. Duckett 150 Lymnae A. Freedewald Ind. 150 Gary A. Freedewald Birth. 150 Gary Weber Birth. 150 Michael H. Neill 150 CENTENNIAL—4 Rick McLaughlin Comm. 87 Ken Rubickshaw Comm. 79 Revin J White K.U.S.P. 64 Terrence J White K.U.S.P. 54 Mike Failor K.U.S.P. 54 Annie Failor K.U.S.P. 54 Robert Green K.U.S.P. 49 Stephen Bryant K.U.S.P. 48 Eliza Hamm K.U.S.P. 44 Honda Nutting Ind. 40 Evan Nutting Ind. 40 Robert Hume Ind. 26 Olivia Cady Ind. 26 Mike Eaumann Ind. 18 *VERMER* NORTH COLLEGE—3 Comm. 149 NORTH COLLEGE-3 Bankier Mert Comm. 189 Brad Dillon Comm. 188 William Foster Comm. 187 See SENATE RESULTS, Page 8 Kansas Photo by JAMES EATON Ballot Returns Require Patience . . . Schmitt, Scott, Dillon wait . . .