Daily hansan
58th Year, No.114
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, March 30, 1961
Eberhart, Moore Lead Vox Sweep
WE'RE IN-Larry Moore, Topeka junior, student body vice president, and Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior, student body president,
smile amid victory signs and congratulations from well-wishers after they were notified of the victory in the Spring elections.
Senate OK's KU Building Fund
Raymond Nichols, executive secretary of the University said today that the $10 million state college and university building plan passed unanimously by the Senate yesterday "is a good start on an accelerated building plan for KU."
The bill was advanced to third reading on an emergency basis and now goes to the House for action. The bill would appropriate expenditures of $4,649,985 for fiscal 1962 and $5,265,000 for fiscal 1963.
KU would receive $3,555,000 for fiscal 1962 and 1963, according to United Press International.
MR. NICHOLS said:
"We hope this is the beginning of an orderly, planned building program which will take care of KU's expected enrollment increases in the future. The plan is to replace inadequate obsolete buildings with adequate modern buildings for the future."
The EBF fund, for 1962, allows $750,000 for a unit of the engineering building; an addition to Watson Library, $450,000, and an addition to the Natural History Museum, $350,000. The University would be authorized $30,000 for planning and
KU, KSU, Washburn CRC Groups Form State Council
The Kansas Collegians for Civil Rights was organized last night by civil rights councils from KU. Kansas State University and Washburn University.
Weather
Steve Baratz, Lawrence graduate student and chairman of KU's Civil Rights Council, said the new group will not supersede the local CPC. "Rather, it will serve as a coordinating body for member councils," he commented.
IN FISCAL 1963 the engineering building appropriations would be $625,000 and for the library, $1,350,000.
"OUR MAIN purpose in setting up the state-wide organization is to impress upon the state as a whole, that the problem of racial discrimination is the problem of the state, and not merely a local problem." Baratz said.
"The state organization will pro-
architectural work on Blake Hall which has been vacant for the past nine years.
Becoming cloudy tonight and Friday with occasional rain or rain and snow. Little change in temperature. Low tonight in the 30s. High Friday 30s.
Mr. Nichols said that the bill, as it passed the Senate is identical to the requests that the Board of Regents made for KU. He said that the bill is a good start, but that it is a year later than the University would have liked.
Baratz said most of last night's meeting was devoted to a discussion of university housing. "We decided upon some common steps we might take in this direction, but we will have to discuss these ideas with the local councils before deciding upon any definite action," he added.
"In our discussion last night, we discovered that many of the problems we are trying to solve here at KU are similar to problems at Washburn and K-State," he said.
vide a means for the exchange of ideas among individual civil rights groups," he added, "and will coordinate common actions taken by member councils.
DELEGATES FROM each of the three universities met last night gt Washburn. "We plan to invite civil rights groups at Wichita University, Pittsburg and Emporia State Colleges to join the group before the next meeting, April 18, at Washburn," Baratz said.
Baratz said he was "heartened to see so much interest in racial problems at other universities."
"Operation Abolition" will be shown tonight at 7:30 in Fraser Theater.
Former Gov. George Docking veoed a similar bill last year and the legislature was unable to override his veto.
'Operation Abolition To Be Shown Tonight
After the film is shown, a discussion analyzing the film will be held. Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, and John Ise, professor emeritus of economics, will speak against the film, and Scott Stanley, 1st year law, Bethel, and Leonard Banowetz, corporate counsel for Coleman Corp., Wichita, will defend the film.
THE KU Medical Center would be appropriated $20,000 for fiscal 1962 for an addition to a building to provide for housing of the communication center, gymnasium for physical medicine and space for the IBM machines of the business office.
There will also be a showing at 4 p.m. today in Fraser Theater for those who are unable to attend the evening showing.
Vox Gets 8 of 10 Seats; Holds 14-12 ASC Edge
Max E. Eberhart, Great Bend junior, and Larry Moore, Topeka junior, have been elected president and vice president of the KU student body.
The announcement came last night after $2\frac{1}{2}$ hours of ballot- counting in the IBM rooms of Bailey Hall.
The polls closed at 5 p.m.yesterday.
The total number of votes cast in this spring's race was 3,117. Eberhart and Moore, Vox Populi candidates received 1,824 of these while Alan Reed, Leavenworth junior, and Phyllis Wertzberger Lawrence junior, University Party candidates got 1,252.
A total of 427 votes were declared void by the elections committee. There were 36 write-in votes.
VOX NOW controls the ASC by a margin of 14 seats to UP's 12, a drop from this year's 16-10 Vox majority. Vox took eight of ten seats in this election.
The total number of votes cast in the two-day student body elections exceeded official expectations. As 434 voters trickled through the lines at the Strong Hall polls yesterday morning, Dick Harper, Prairie Village junior and chairman of the ASC elections committee, said that he did not expect the total to go over 3,000.
Tuesday's 1,408 votes had given hopes of going over records of years past.
VOTING TOTALS exceeded last semester's by 293. There were 2,824 votes cast last fall.
The weather was given credit for
the afternoon surge of voters yes- day.
During last night's counting, redistribution was called for twice and one write-in candidate was declared ineligible with 15 votes.
Pharmacy ... Ezekiel Munoz
Law ... Verne Gauby
Education ... Loree Antenzen
Journalism ... Ron Gallagher
College, Women's ... Carol McMillon
Business ... Roy Deem
Fine Arts ... Rusty Masters
Graduate ... Tom Kurt
UP
THE ASC WINNERS
College, Men's Gene Gaines
Engineering Bill Rothenberger
Vox
THE REDISTRIBUTION process divided the ballots cast for the person receiving the fewest votes between the first two candidates. The ballots cast for second place are then counted.
The committee deemed both the race for sophomore and junior class secretary close enough for redistribution.
Eberhart, Vox Jubilant; UP Undaunted by Loss
(Complete Vote Totals on Page 8.)
Tension mounted outside the folding steel door that separated the ballot counting room from the bystanders in Bailey Hall last night.
The first ballots to be counted were those for the student body president and vice president.
Eberhart Says-
By 7:25 p.m. the results were out and a jubilant Max Eberhart, Great Bend junior, was informed of his election. He turned to Larry Moore, Topeka junior, his running-mate and congratulated him.
"WE'RE IN." said Eberhart.
Then he settled down to wait for the results of the election of school representatives.
The Vox men learned of their victory from an excited Ted Childers, Wamego junior, who rushed to the door with an elated "We're in! We took eight of the ten seats!"
They shook hands and pounded each other on the back.
THERE WERE a few groans of disappointment over the loss of their engineering representative by three votes.
"If I find an engineer in my house, I'll kill him," said one Vox man.
Vox also lost the men's college representative seat to UP.
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Defeated but undaunted, the University Party shall return.
Alan Reed, Leavenworth junior and UP student body presidential candidate, was pleased with parts of the results.
"We picked up two more seats on the All Student Council and the ones we lost were by small margins," he said. "UP will keep on trying. I think we can do a lot of good with the two extra seats on the ASC."
UP party members at the IBM tabulation center kept Reed posted on the ballot count via telephone. Reed and other UP members were at an election party.
Reed Says-
"I didn't think it would be appropriate to be waiting for the count," Reed said. "The president should be a little more dignified, but the excitement was great and Max was so excited he couldn't wait. I was excited myself. I waited until we heard the results, then I went up to check the results myself.
"It was a pretty hard campaign. We were happy about the campus interest, in fact we were gratified at the large turnout — 3,117 votes is a good turnout."
"We don't know why there was the big vote difference between the presidential candidates. I'm surprised at the 600 vote margin, but we can't analyze those things."