University Daily Kansan, November 22, 1983
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Election
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mentum, 1.038 votes; and Freedom, 245 votes. There were also 22 write-in votes for others.
Walker to appeal
Walker plans first to obtain an injunction to keep Swenson out of office, and has asked the Judicial Review Board to convene by the end of this week or the beginning of next week to look at the Electoral Committee. He also said he would call on state and University officials to support his protest.
Walker said he still had no reassurance that the ballot-counting was accurate.
1. believe a number of ballots were tampered with. I think Costume got screwed." Walker said. "Thursday night, my people told me that Costume was ahead. It would be very, very easy for someone to scuttle a few votes from them.
Student Senate and the administration are prejudiced. They don't like Costume."
McKee said, "It is unbelievable. First Costume came up with 40 more votes and now Costume is behind two. That's weird."
Clark, however, denied that the ballots had been tampered with.
"There is no way, absolutely no way that those votes have been tampered with. They have been locked up in the vault. We had everything short of an armed guard outside the door," he said.
Election officials said Friday that they had lost a tally sheet and that this was why the ballots had to be counted again.
"They lost a tally sheet?" McKee said. "Come on. Who is to say that they didn't lose more than that?"
But Clark insisted that no tally
sheets had been lost. The error came when people added up the sheets, he said
"People who were not involved in the tallying added up the sheets. They misread a tally sheet," he said.
Attorney is critical
The Momentum Coalition hired an attorney to represent it at the Elections Review Board. Walker said he wanted an outside person to observe the decision made by the board.
Lance Burr, the attorney, said that the elections board was trying to follow state law and that the law did not apply in this case.
"These laws have no applicability. You haven't adopted state law and you have no procedure for that. You are required to follow your state law, and you're told that." Burr told the Elections Review Board at a meeting yesterday. "If
you are toying with the state statutes, you have to follow all of them. That means the person with the highest number of votes is to receive the certificate of office so the will of the people will be done."
Burr said that he thought that students knew who they were voting for when they marked "Momentum" on their ballots. Because Momentum was an official coalition, the votes should be counted.
"There is no prohibition against counting the votes of an official party. You have to fulfill the will of people. That is due process," he said.
Clark said that the Senate was not bound to follow state law but that sometimes it was necessary.
"But if there is ambiguity or a situation that our own rules and regs don't cover, and we don't turn to law,"aws, what do we turn to?" he asked.
Swenson said yesterday that he
"But it sounds like they were thorough," he said. "I don't see how Momentum can challenge it.
had been expecting a re-count but had not expected to win the second time.
The board was correct in following state law. Swenson said.
"I think we are standing on firm ground by the Kansas Statutes. We're not asking for the rules to be bent in our favor. So if it goes to court, it would make me feel better."
"We are a state institution. When our rules and regulations don't apply, you go to the next highest level. We aren't a little island sitting out here."
"Kevin ran last year and he knew the rules. That is part of having a write-in campaign."
However, he did say that the problems with the Costume Party's votes were unusual.
"It looks weird. I just really can't
Swenson said he was convinced that the elections were over and added that he planned to take office by accepting applications for his staff.
explain it." Swenson said.
Board is attacked
"The board completely did not work. It was total confusion, they did not even know the rules." Bergstrom said.
Steve Bergstrom, presidential candidate of the Freedom Coalition, said that he was disappointed in the board's decision.
"A lot of elections laws are written in favor of incumbents. No party wants a write-in to win. We're not bound by state election laws. This is not political hardball. And if the people should have been counted, the people should get what they wanted. They shouldn't get the second-place
Student petition seeks new presidential election
Dougherty said that the petition would be circulated in classes on
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Two KU students yesterday began circulating a petition calling for a new vote in the presidential and vice presidential nominees, the recent student body elections.
Kim Dougherty, Stilwell senior, and Cathy Hittner, Salina junior, said that they circulated the petition around 100 health and collected about 100 signatures.
The Elections Review Board also
campus and in residence halls today.
AFTER BALLOTS were again recounted yesterday, Scott Swenson and Dennis Strickland of the Priority Coalition were declared the winners by two votes. Priority received 1,064 votes and the Costume Party Coalition received 1,052. The Momentum Coalition placed third with 1,083 votes, and the Freedom Coalition finished fourth with 245 votes.
"We hope that people will become more aware about what's going on, so that the next election will be more fair," she said.
upheld a decision by its chairman,
Julie Menze, to discount ballots
marked only "Momentum."
candidate."
Both Doughery and Hittner said that they were not affiliated with any coalition that was involved in the election.
"It seemed that the elections were not really fair." Dougherty said. "We didn't like the way things were being handled."
After the petition has been circulated, she said, it will be presented to the Student Senate's Judicial Review Committee. The student opinion will force a new vote.
After the Elections Review Board had decided not to count ballots marked "Momentum," Highberger said that the meeting was ridiculed.
"The meeting was by the book, but the rules got in the way of justice and freedom."
Several students had mixed reactions to recent election events.
MARY KENNEY, Overland Park sophomore, said that the election was "a rip-off," because the votes marked "Momentum" were not counted.
"I think they should count all the votes because Momentum won," she said. "They'd win by a clear majority if there was another election."
"When the whole thing started, people thought that we were making this into a circus. Now it is obvious where the real circus is," he said. "I'm really sick and really tired of this. I would have been really uncomfortable being president of the student body by one vote.
BUT STEVEN ALBRIGHT, Ottawa junior, said that if more people had voted, the election would not have been close and Priority would have won by a big margin. He said that Priority would win a new election.
Highberger said he thought that the election rules needed to be changed and suggested formation of an executive council that would be made up of the three top presidential candidates and their vice presidents, instead of having one student body president.
"Then no one would get stepped on. If our real interest is in serving the students, this seems like the only fair way to do it," he said. "It would look better as well, but it would look as good on a resume, but it is the only fair thing to do."
The Costume Party is circulating a petition for a coalition government. Highbierger said the Costume Party was going to ignore the official channels and go ahead with the petition.
Still, he said, he might file for a re-count.
"I'm disappointed that they didn't count Momentum's ballots, but I never really thought that they would," he said.
"I'm just pretty disgusted with the way it was run. Students won't ever trust the Senate elections again."
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"It would be like living in a toilet seat, under an ultra-violet light," he said. "People would be starving to death in the smoggy darkness."
NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS would destroy the atmosphere's ozone layer, he said, leaving plants and animals exposed to deadly levels of ultra-violet
And people, unable to believe that the damage was equally serious in most parts of the world, would try to move, creating even more panic and chaos, he said. Rivers would be frozen and ocean life non-existent.
"If a nuclear war occurred during winter, it would still be too dark in the snow."
the Northern Hemisphere goodbye."
THE SPEAKERS, addressing a supportive and enthusiastic audience, often drew applause with humorous remarks and calls for a nuclear freeze.
The effects on the Southern Hemisphere of a nuclear explosion in the earth would be no place there said. But there would be no place on Earth where life would be pleasant.
Ehrlich's statement that he agreed with the motto, "Freeze now or freeze later," drew widespread applause and laughter.
Lifton, addressing the question of the psychological effects of a nuclear war, spoke in a more somber tone and said, "We don't have any jokes in this area, it
is too grim."
Lifton has done extensive research on how the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, affected the citizens of the city. The emotional numbing that many Hiroshima survivors felt in the wake of widespread destruction is similar to what some Lawrence residents might have felt after watching "The Day After," he said.
He said that the first step to prevent nuclear war was for people to avoid psychological numbing and to pool their emotional and intellectual re
"THE HEART AND mind each atrophy in the absence of each other."
be said. "Rebellion of the human mind is a step toward rationality."
"When I arrived in Hiroshima 20 years ago, I learned something that shocked me. No one had studied theological and social effects," he said.
And the psychological and socia-
effects of nuclear warfare have not be-
tht changed since the end of World War II.
If there are tiny bands of survivors, their behavior would be primitive and they would probably be victims of psychological immobilization that would make them unable to act, he said.
A sort of "Nuclearism," which makes nuclear weapons into deities,
has taken over society and has in turn led to inaction and psychological numbing, he said.
"Nuclearism is a sort of fundamentalism focused on the weapons," he said.
AND CITIZENS SHOULD not "leave it to the experts." when it comes to deciding the future of a nuclear arms buildup, Lifton said, because experts don't always know better than other people.
"We need to worry less about the children's nightmares and more about the weapons that cause these nightmares," he said. "I hope every one of you will devote some aspect of your life to combat that danger."
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Town
Longhurst also sent letters April 23 involving the two leaders to a summit in
seen the television movie "The Day After," he had written the letters inviting Reagan and Andropov to Lawrence.
"I SAW LAST night at the candlelight vigil after 'The Day After' 1,000 people holding up candles to express hope for the future of the world," Longhurst told an audience of about 150 people in the church's sanctuary. "If I did not write the letter and try to initiate a move for the church, I would letting down those people as prayer."
in "The Day After" really happened in Lawrence.
He said that he had been considering sending another invitation, but finally did so when a reporter from a local news outlet wrote to him how he would feel if the events depicted
However, he said that he was not making a public play for himself or making a public statement.
"It is hard to convince people that I'm not grandstanding," he said.
"He asked me how it would feel if this would ever come to pass," Longhurst said. "I felt that if it were to happen, I would have let down my home as a citizen and as a parent. You might say that it pushed me over the edge."
LONGHURST'S LETTER states that relations between the United States and the Soviet Union have deteriorated since last spring.
"In the seven months since the Lawrence Meeting for Peace invitation to attend, I am very grateful."
United States and the Soviet Union have continued their dangerous deterioration," the letter said. "Recent scientific studies show beyond any doubt the fate that awaits the human family if we fail to eliminate the possibility that nuclear weapons would ever be used."
Longhurst's announcement came at the end of the meeting, at which Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan., spoke briefly and commented on statements made by citizens in the audience. After Slattery said that he would give minutes to express his views on the nuclear arms race. About 20 spectators spoke.
SLATTERY ADVOCATED "peace through strength" in his remarks, saving that the Soviet Union was trying
to split the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
"Anyone who says that the United States is a second-rate power is pushing so much bunk," he said. "The United States is the premiere military force in the world, and none of us has any desire or intent to use those god-awful nuclear weapons."
"But the Soviet Union has the nuclear capability to destroy the United States, and there's nothing to stop them either a mutually assured destructive deterrent."
Slattery made his remarks despite the fact that he voted in favor of the nuclear freeze resolution that came before the U.S. House of Representatives last year.
Kennedy, he said yesterday that the United States could not afford to bargain out of fear but could succeed in reducing the stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
"President Kennedy said: 'Let us never fear the negative. Let us never negotiate out of fear,'" Slattery said. "But one thing is sacred, and that is
Most of the spectators in the audience who spoke supported a nuclear freeze.
who spoke supported a nuclear freeze. Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, praised Slattery for voting for the nuclear freeze resolution.
"THERE HAS BEEN much more emphasis on 'build' than 'down' lately, he said. "The way to get rid of weapons is to get rid of nuclear weapons."
Man flees house, refinishing work as fire breaks out
QUOTING PRESIDENT John F
By the Kansan Staff
Leroy Walburn, 41, 538 Lindley Drive, was treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and released
A man doing some refinishing inside a home in the 1300 block of West Fifth Street escaped serious injuries when a fire broke out in the house.
Capt, Larry Woydziak of the Lawrence Fire Department said that the man was doing some refinishing work in the rear of the house when a fire broke out about 9:52 p.m.
Woydiak said that the owner of the house, Shirley Russell, was uncertain of the address of the house and that fire officials could not determine the address from the home.
No one else was in the house at the time of the fire. Woydziak said that the fire sored through the house.
Woydiiak said that after the fire broke out, the man ran through the house and escaped through the front door. A spokesman at Lawrence Memorial said the man suffered minor burns to his leg.
Capt William Brubaker said the firefighters spent 15 to 20 minutes fighting the fire and stayed on the house where the fire was putted by the fire, he said.
Woydiak said that firefighters thought the fire was accidental, but the cause is under investigation.
Damage was estimated at $8,000
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