CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 18, 1983 Page 1
Gary Smith/KANSAN
Dennis "Boog" Highberger and Carla Vogel, presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Costume Party Coalition, react favorably to news that their coalition finished a strong third in this year's Student Senate elections. The elections were the closest in Senate history.
Costume Party considers third place a victory
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Despite finishing third in the student body elections, Dennis "Boog" Highberger and Carla Vogel were convinced right that they had achieved a victory.
Higherberger and Vogel, the presidential and vice presidential candidates from the Costume Party Coalition, garnered 1,004 votes, 45 behind the Priority Coalition. The election was the closest in Student Senate history.
"Winning to me has nothing to do with the number of votes we get." Highberger said as votes were being tabulated at the Kansas Union.
The victory, he said, was achieved by stirring interest among students to talk about it.
COSTUME HAD advocated improved communication within the Senate and had said that all offices in the Senate should have equal rank, a stance they said would have created respect among senators.
About 10 people, informally dressed in denim and flannel, gathered at the
They were sipping wine while talking about various topics, not necessarily political. Scraps of newspapers, a pair of scissors and a roll of tape were used to lay down the living room carpet — the tools they had used to make political posters.
campaign party that Costume had at Vogel's two-story house on Tennessee Street.
"When I went into this I wasn't thinking of winning at all," Vogel said. "I was just thinking of talking to people and telling people know there is an alternative."
AS VOTES were being counted, the candidates and supporters listened to radio reports about the election and tapped their teeth to vintage Monkees' tunes. One Costume supporter took home movies of the evening's events.
Costume supporters said they would celebrate, win or lose.
"We'll have a party. No doubt about that," Highberger said.
A burst of hisses and laughter rang the radio station reported that Priority had
group broke out in applause when they heard that Costume had received over 10,000 calls.
"I expected a lot." Highgierer said
aloud. Costume's ballot total "I'm
happy."
After hearing the preliminary election results, the candidates said they would go to the Priority Coalition's at the request of Priority candidates.
TOMMORROW. Highberger said, they will begin taking down campaign posters.
The reason for Costume's high spirits was that the coalition thought students were receptive to their ideas, which they said, showed in the vote total.
One of Costume's campaign gums is to hand out free bug cards this week.
"Win or lose, there's still 900 hugs fishing around campus. Biggered up
Vogel said the whole campaign and election process was enlightening; especially considering the controversy over centrism votes that were declared invalid.
Don't wait till the day after. Join us.Sunday night.
Nuclear holocaust comes home to KU and Lawrence in Sunday's gripping TV movie, The Day After. Right after, at 9:30 p.m., come to the candlelight gathering on Campanile Hill above Memorial Stadium. * (In case of heavy rain, we'll gather at the Ecumenical Ministries Building, 12th and Oread.)
America will be watching Lawrence Sunday night. Let the nation know that Lawrence wants to live.
- Several TV stations will carry portions of the gathering live.
Also, at 2 p.m. Sunday:
Poetry reading and photo exhibit. Big Eight Room, Kansas Union.
Town meeting chaired by Mayor David Longhurst. U.S. Rep. Slattery will attend. Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont.
Monday noon:
Monday night at 8:
Forum on "The Consequences of Nuclear War". Paul Ehrlich, Stanford biologist, on the ecological consequences. Robert J. Lifton, Yale professor of psychiatry, on the psychological implications. Kansas Union Ballroom.
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