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Vol. 94, No. 65 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning, November 18, 1983
Priority candidates win race for top Senate seats
Staff Reporter
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
Scott Swenson last night was soaked with champagne and elated that he had been elected student body president. But at the same time he was also struck by a close margin by which he had won the election.
Swenson, the presidential candidate of the Priority Coalition, and his running mate, Dennis
See related stories pp. 7, 8
Strickland, narrowly defeated the Momentum Coalition candidates last night by 13 votes to become the executive officers of the 15th Student Senate.
Officially, Priority's presidential candidates garnered 1,049 votes. Momentum was second with 1,036, and the Costume Party had 1,044 votes. The Freedom Coalition finished last with
The election was the closest in Senate history. Momentum candidates Kevin Walker and Mark Lennon were contenders.
PRIORITY'S VICTORY was announced at 10:55 p.m. Results for Senate seats were
incomplete at 4 a.m. and ballot counters at the Kansas Union said they would wade through the votes throughout the night.
Walker and McKee have appealed a Senate Elect. plea to decision to invalidate 114 bills that were遭罪
Before the announcement was made, checks by Priority campaign staff members showed that Swenson and Strickland were in a tight race with Momentum and the Costume Party.
Swenson and Strickland were notified of the victory minutes before the announcement was made public. They ran from a second floor study to meet their supporters and Senate candidates in the chapter room of the Sigma Nu fraternity house 1501 Sigma Nu Place.
About 100 people greeted the candidates with screams, hugs and handshakes.
"TITS TIME WE represent the student body," Swenson shouted at his supporters. "With 13 votes, I realize there will probably be a recount. We need to decide." He is concerned. I think we will come up on top.
During the victory celebration, Jim Cramer, the out-jugging student body vice president, asked questions about the victory.
See PRIORITY, p. 5, col. 1
Momentum declares victory despite lack of official votes
By SUSAN WORTMAN
Although the official count placed them 13 votes behind the Priority Coalition, Momentum Coalition candidates Kevin Walker and Mark McKee declared last night that they had won the student body presidential and vice presidential elections.
Staff Reporter
Nephron Philippe KANSAN
head refers to the Momentum Coition, which is used to establish a McDonald's restaurant in the Kansas Union.
"As far as the students at the University of Kansas are concerned, I am president," Walker said after the closest election in Student Senate history. "I can just taste it."
Momentum's write-in campaign received 1,036 votes in the Senate elections, 13 short of Priority's 1,049. But a decision by the chairman of the Student Elections Review Board disallowed ballots that were marked only "Momentum," instead of having the candidates' names.
"We've got it," he told members of his coalition last night at the Peppertree Park Apartments clubhouse, 3100 W. 22nd. "We've won."
BECAUSE OF the decision, 114 ballots were invalidated last night. Jim Clark, chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee, said he did not know how many of those ballots were
Walker said that students who had marked their ballots. Momentum" clearly had voted for the Democrat.
Walker promised to take the ruling to court if the Elections Committee refused to validate the
"PEOPLE WILL be upset," he said. "They know who was running for Momentum, and there was no way, no way in hell, that they couldn't
walker and McKee were not allowed to have their names printed on the ballot because Walker could not verify his enrollment in the University by the Oct. 17 filing deadline.
"We'll never take it through the University appeals board. The appeals process is ridiculous, Mickey Mouse and inefficient." McKee all we need is 13 votes. Concerned, we have won. All we need is 13 votes.
know who they meant. The student body has elected us."
Also, McKee said, voters had asked ballot box workers whether they could write "Momentum" on the ballot. The workers told voters that they could.
McKee said he was confident that the Elections Committee would validate enough votes to declare Momentum the winner. He said his coalition had "done everything by the book."
"I'm proud that we have run everything legally and ethically," he said.
Walker and McKee appealed the decision and asked for a re-count. The Elections Review Board will meet at 1 p.m. today to discuss the invalid ballots.
MCKEE SAID that a percentage of the ballots were always invalid because people filled them out incorrectly. But he questioned whether the committee would make fair decision on the matter.
"The they are a biased committee." he said.
Scott Swenson of the Priority Coalition raises his hand in victory after narrowly winning the Student Senate presidential election. The McDonald's can hold above Swenson's champagne-soaked
In the midst of cheers, McKee shouted,
nineteen is a bad luck number for the Priority
Cause.
Walker, McKee and Momentum's 23 Senate candidates grinned, shook hands and slapped each other on the back as if they had the opportunity to win. The champagne and toasted each other as winners.
After Prince and two men named the winner, Walker grabbed a glass of champagne and said, "I'd like to propose a toast to the 114 invalid votes."
"He said he wouldn't touch it with a 10-foot pole," McKee said. "We have the exclusive right to the word 'Momentum' and the voter knew that. Right now those votes are not being counted. They are going into a shoebox somewhere."
The problem with the voting became apparent about Wednesday afternoon, McKee said, and he had talked to Jim Clark, Elections Committee chairman, about it.
"There are reasons for festivities," Walker said. "We've won. Don't worry about it."
MCKEE SAID. "We're so confident that it isn't even funny."
Mark McKeen. Momentum vice presidential candidate, and Kevin Walker. Momentum presidential candidate, react to the news that the Momentum Coalition finished close enough behind the Priority Coalition to force a recount. Momentum finished with 1,036 votes last night. 13 behind Scott Swenson and Dennis Strickland of Priority.
Early tally gives three of six seats to Priority group
By the Kansan Staff
the Priority Coalition won three of the six Student Senate seats that had been decided by 4 a.m. today.
Priority's Robert Walker won the *Social Welfare seat with eight votes*. Dema Molis, a law professor at Princeton University, said:
Brian Raleigh, also of Priority, won one of two special student seats with 17 votes. Five other write in candidates tied for second with one vote anice.
The Law School seat was won by Priority's Mike Booth with 33 votes. Stephen Robinson of Pittsburgh lost to Larry Gaynor.
The Costume Party Coition was the only other coalition to win one of the first six seats. Costume's Shirley A. Gilley garnered 642 votes to win the seat. Charles Lawhorn of the Momentum Coalition had 332 votes to the Coalition had 322 votes. A total of 44 students were named on write-in ballots.
An independent candidate, Mark Hoover, won the Pharmacy seat with 11 votes. Five write-in candidates with one vote each tied for the Allied Health seat
Chris Edmonds, secretary of the Elections Committee, said that the Senate might not decide the winners of the Allied Health and Medical Corps. He said that many students usually decline the seat.
The Elections Committee was still counting ballots at 4 a.m. Edmonds said that some of the candidates had lost their ballots.
'The Dav After' attracts worldwide media to Lawrence
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER
Staff Reporter
With autumn settling quietly on Lawrence, the television movie "The Day After" has brought more than a controversial film about nuclear holocaust to the city.
Spokesmen for the Young Americans for Freedom - a conservative youth group - and Let Lawrence Live - an anti-nuclear organization - both said yesterday that they had been
National and international journalists have swarmed the city, focusing much of their attention on two local groups that have taken opposing stands on the film.
The film has brought with it a media holocaust.
deluged with calls from journalists around the world.
See related story p. 3
Several local radio and TV stations also have interviewed group members, he said, and the CBS News story "60 Minutes" last week broadcast a story featuring three VAF members.
Allan Hanson, the director of Let Lawrence Live, said he had talked to the Denver and Philadelphia papers and to the Australian
BRYAN DANIEL, state chairman of YAF, said that he had talked with the New York Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Denver Post and a British Columbia newspaper. He also said an Australian news team had been in Lawrence talking with YAF members.
The movie, which was shot in and around Lawrence, will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Sunday
In "The Day After," Jason Robards portrays Russell Oakes, a heart surgeon who finds himself trapped in a hospital during a nuclear explosion. The movie, filmed in and around Lawrence, will be broadcast at 7 p.m. Sunday on ABC-TV.
Previously, Let Lawrence live was featured on the "CBS Sunday Morning News," and Hanson had been interviewed by several newspapers and magazines.
journalist. He also spoke with news teams from all three networks and with the New York Times.
BOTH GROUPS are urging people to watch
the film, but they have distinctly different opinions on the movie.
"The movie will force them to think about nuclear war. And people thinking about it for the first time can be encouraged to join the move for peace, and push for removal of nuclear
"We are taking part in a general consciousness raising event," Hanson said. "A lot of people have made up their minds, but a lot more haven't."
"Deterrence has worked for 40 years and will continue to work. Watching the movie spurs me on to work even harder for peace through strength."
Daniel said. "We feel the movie is being used. We're afraid that people won't think more about it."
THE END IS not in sight. Both groups have several activities planned for this weekend and
Hanson said that the ABC News show "Nightlife" be betw a Monday night to bed live from the Kansas City area.
Jos Hanbar, a national media publicist who is working with anti-nuclear groups around the country, said that gatherings were planned in thousands of communities around the country.
"Nightline" has scheduled debates about nuclear war for four nights next week.
"There's never been a larger, bigger TV show from a reedia standpoint." Baran said.
Let Lawrence Live has a poetry reading scheduled at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Union and plans to stage a candlelight vigil at the flagpole on Campanile Hill immediately after the movie is broadcast. Mayor David Longhurst will preside over a town meeting at noon Monday.
Organizations continue tradition of ending week with TGIF parties
Staff Reporter
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
The professor stands in front of the room, pointing to slides being shown on the movie screen and offering explanation. A group of about 15 students listen attentively as he talks about the research he did on insects several years ago in Germany.
mostly, the classroom eating is traditional except for the pitchers of beer on the steak.
THE GRADUATE business students meet once a month, each time at a different bar. Carey said it has become an event that most of the students look forward to.
Not to be concerned, though. It's Friday afternoon and the "classroom" is the Sunflower Room of the Kansas Union. The students, members of the KU Biology Club, are assembled for their weekly Friday meeting, a "thank God it's Friday" sort of.
"WE'VE BEEN doing this every Friday at 4 p.m. since 1977," said Brower Burchill, professor of physiology and cell biology and a professor of the club. "It's kind of become a tradition."
"We've been meeting for at least 10 years, so it's a pretty well-established event," said Sara Schwartz. "We are going to keep it."
And one needs only to make the rounds of the local bars between 2 and 7 p.m. on any Friday to see that the tradition still runs strong
Tradition is a good way to describe the ritual known as TGIF at the University of Kansas. As long as there have been Fridays, likely they have been TGIF parties at the University.
grantee Business Student Council, whose group had 16 in November TGIF part at the university.
"The graduate business school is a high-pressured school, and a lot of students don't get out very often. When they were undergrads, they had a more structured social life because they lived in dorms, fraternities, sororites, scholarship halls, etc."
"Grad students don't usually have that structure, so this is a little outlet, a time when they can really think.
Meeting people doesn't mean just meet other students. Most academic groups sponsoring TGIP's usually invite professors and teaching assistants to join the party as well.
"I's great when the professors show up," said Dodge Johnson, president of the Engineering Club, which meets every four weeks and batches at the Burge Union cafeteria.
"WE TRY NOT to talk shop too much, so it's more of a social affair. We encourage professors to come out and members of the club are free to bring friends if they want."
Because they are so popular, TGIF parties usually don't require too much publicity. Most of the groups use the standard handgear technique, but some go a little further.
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