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University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1963
Platforms, Records Debated by UP,Vox
Vox Populi and University Party leaders had something to say about each other last night.
The occasion was a debate at Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. It was the first of what the debaters hope will be discussions in all three freshmen women's residence halls.
Larry Bast, Topeka sophomore and UP Greek co-chairman, said a merit commission to choose members for ASC committees is necessary "to get better qualified persons on the committees."
"THE MERIT COMMISSION consist of members from both parties who would interview applicants, judge the merits of the applicants and go over all appointments with the student body president before he brings their names before the ASC for ratification," he said.
Bast also advocated a five-member "cabinet" for the student body president, which would be responsible for seeing committees discharge their duties.
charge up users. He said UP has been criticized for not attemting to enact much of its campaign platforms.
"This is justified because we let our ASC members think for themselves," Bast said. "There is no party machinery at work on the ASC. We do not treat our ASC representatives like puppets."
THE SECOND SPEAKER, Tom Bornholdt, Topeka senior and Vox president, said his party has been responsible for almost all legislation passed by the ASC in the past seven years.
"Each Vox candidate who runs for the ASC promises to carry through the platform of the party," Bornholdt said. "Our candidates feel this responsibility, and it is a reason for the growth of student government."
Bornholdt contrasted Vox activities on the ASC with those of UP. "UP's legislative record is easy to relate, because it hardly has one," he said.
CHUCK MARVIN. Lawrence senior and independent co-chairman of UP, said lack of a majority of seats on the ASC has kept his party from proposing more legislation.
He answer a criticism by Bornholdt that two UP planks-one stressing cooperation between Greeks and independents and the other concerning civil rights-were unnecessary.
"UP is not in favor of discrimination and have a plank to this affect." Marvin said. "There is no Vox plank, so what does Vox plan to do in the field of civil rights? UP plans to combat any discrimination that remains on this campus."
MARVIN CHARGED thatt through the student body president, who was elected on the Vox ticket, Vox has access to University administration plans and can fashion parts of its platform around this information.
He said the Vox plank calling for the Kansas Union Bookstore to sell supplies in other locations was included on the platform after it was learned that the bookstore was planning such a move.
The final speaker was Brian Grace, Lawrence senior and former Vox vice president. Grace said it was "a little bit ridiculous" for Marvin to say that UP did not introduce more legislation for fear of it being defeated by the Vox majority.
Death Hits Zoo
GRACE DISMISSED Marvin's statement that Vox deliberately includes planks in its platform that are already being acted on or that are impossible.
ERIE, Pa. — (UPI) — Zoo officials today investigated the deaths of six animals in the past two weeks.
Three Rhesus monkeys were shot and killed during the weekend. Earlier, an elk and two coimundis were discovered poisoned.
"It is the policy of Vox Populi when proposing a plank to talk with people who can advise us on the probability of putting it into effect," he said. Grace said members of the platform committees discussed the bookstore extension idea with a bookstore official, "who said the request was possible."
Grace added that the ASC committee members are already picked by a bipartisan commission.
"In the end, the student body president is the one who must make the appointments," he said. "I suspect they're mad because the student body president isn't a UP member."
Six KU men were named finalists in the Campus Problems Speaking Contest last night and will compete tonight for the championship.
Speech Finals Tonight; Six Men To Compete
The finals will be at 8 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union. Allen Crafton, professor emeritus of speech and drama, will be chairman of the contest tonight.
They are: Lacy Banks, Kansas City junior, whose topic was "Shaking From the Teeth of Rejection"; Jim Thompson, Hugleton senior, "At the Grave of the Student Liaison Committee"; Robert E. Sears, Kansas City freshman, "Our Image"; Bill Robertson, Ladue, Mo., junior, "We've Won the Race"; Alvan Robert Teragawachi, Honolulu, Hawaii, senior, "English Proficiency," and Wayne Macura, Bridgeport, Conn., junior, "The Kansas Monroe Doctrine."
JACKSON, Miss.—(UPI)—Democrat Paul B. Johnson was elected governor yesterday over a young Republican candidate who made an unprecedented challenge to Mississippi's one-party politics.
Republicans Make a Race Of Mississippi Election
Johnson, 47, who had the approval of Gov. Ross Barnett, defeated Rubel Phillips by a better than 5 to 3 margin and will be inaugurated in January.
BUT PHILLIPS claimed his showing illustrated that Mississippi had adopted a two-party system for the first time in this century.
"We've lost the battle but not the war," he told a group of sorrowing supporters in conceding defeat.
Phillips, 30, an attorney and a former Democrat, made a race out
of it despite active opposition from the biggest political names in Mississippi including Sens. James Eastland and John Stennis and the states entire congressional delegation.
MOST OF THE 21 Republicans who ran for the legislature were handily defeated. But unofficial returns from Lauderdale county showed State Rep. L. L. McAllister, the only Republican in the present legislature, was re-elected by a narrow margin.
Phillips was known to have carried only three of the state's 82 counties; Washington and Coahoma, in traditional anti-Johnson territory, and Choctawt, the home of former Gov. J. P. Coleman, a longtime political foe of Johnson.
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