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University Daily Kansan Monday. March 27.1961
Candidates for Student Body President
Alan Reed (UP)
Leavenworth junior; Templin Hall; International Relations major, GPA 1.8; secretary, Templin Hall; ASC representative from large men's dormitories; Deans Advisory Committee, French honors program; Men's Residence association, executive secretary.
Activities: KU-Y; Asian bloc adviser and member of the Steering committee in this year's Model UN; SUA, committee chairman.
REEDWOULD MOVE TO stimulate student thought on an international and national level. He says this can only come about through the election of a leader, not necessarily a coordinator, to the office. He believes that the predominance of Vox Populi in the last three years has led to a student government that is not well organized in committees, slow to react to needs and reluctant to provide leadership and comment on controversial issues.
Reed believes that his party is the most representative on campus and therefore provides a true cross-section of student thought. He also believes that the University Party's platform is the most original and progressive in the history of KU student government. He is confident that he and the other party leaders can carry out the platform's policies designed to give KU an effective liaison with the student leaders of the world.
HE PROMISES "STRONG and progressive leadership, a more effective committee system and to comment on those issues which merit comment."
Phyllis Wertzberger
Lawrence junior; Pi Beta Phi social sorority; GPA 1.5; ASC representative from sorority district.
Activities: Rock Chalk Revue, director; Froshawks, president; member of the constitutional revisions and nominations committees of the student branch of the American Pharmaceutical Association. ASC: Committee on Committees.
She feels that the office of vice president has been only a position with a title in recent years. She would work to make the office one of responsibility and leadership. Believes that close scrutiny of rejuvenated ASC committees would eliminate any inefficiencies of office.
UDK Recommends
ALAN REED is seeking the position of student body president because he believes its role has to be expanded concomitantly with that of the University's. If elected, he plans to devote his energies to carrying out "the most progressive platform in the history of KU student government," to integrating the interests of the many campus organizations, and to stimulating student thought on questions of national and international importance.
Reed has shown a wide range of interests (as evidenced by his activity in the ASC). He is eager to have the position and to exercise its authority in student affairs. He does not want to be merely a coordinator and will subordinate much of the responsibilities to a cabinet composed of three secretaries.
MAX EBERHART sees the position as one that centralizes the activities of the ASC and student committees. In this capacity, he would work, primarily as a coordinator to see that the machinery of student government functioned smoothly and effectively. His main area of concern would be the ASC and the expansion of its responsibility and its activity in providing services for the student. He would attempt to make the student body aware of the various problems of and the work being done by the ASC.
Eberhart has shown initiative and worked diligently in his term with the ASC by himself and with committees. His many activities on committees and organizations have given him experience and contact with students, faculty and the administration.
Both men hold nearly the same views concerning civil rights, the structure of the ASC, and spheres of student interest.
THE DAILY KANSAN believes that the next president should bring a high degree of experience, knowledge of the many sides to KU student government, and a realistic attitude toward the office of student body president.
Both men have these qualities to a degree, but, in the Daily Kansan's opinion, Max Eberhart has displayed a more practical sense of the role, its limits, and its power. The Daily Kansan feels that Alan Reed has exhibited leadership and ability, but that his aims and ideals, if carried out, would overtax the essential duties of the office. Reed is sincere and his aims are admirable but Eberhart has more concrete plans and a more realistic conception of the role of president.
For these reasons, the Daily Kansas recommends that Max Eberhart be elected student body president.
Max Eberhart (Vox)
Great Bend junior; Sigma Alpha Epsilon social fraternity; business and accounting major, GPA 2.14; General American Legion (2), and Holme scholarships; Owl Society; ASC fraternity representative (current).
Activities: Statewide Activities, vice president; Homecoming committee; Young Democrats, Young Republicans. ASC: Committee on Committees; Committee of one to revise 1953 ASC Constitution.
EBERHART BELIEVES STUDENT government has two simultaneous functions: as a teacher, in that it can provide experience and information, and as a creative body.
His major concern is for increasing the channel of communications between student government and the student body and to make the student aware of national, international, state and local affairs. He feels he can best serve the office as a coordinator of these affairs through vigorous leadership.
HE FEELS THAT these will be the issues of major importance in the next year: civil rights, NSA, foreign students, discipline and improvements of the mechanics of ASC. He feels that his experience in all these areas through his activity on ASC and various committees will give him a decided advantage if he is elected. He feels student government is an all-encompassing organization that can control a great deal of student life but that it does have its limits.
Larry Moore
Topeka junior; Foster Hall; Engineering major. GPA 2.79; Dean's Honor Roll (five times); Summerfield Scholar; Owl Society; ASC representative for men's dormitories (Fall '59-'60).
Activities: Campus Chest, KU Engineering Association; Intramural sports. ASC: Committee on Committees.
Moore sees the role of vice president as one of a coordinator of various student and ASC committees. Feels the vice president should be more active than in the past, attending all ASC meetings, actively participating in committee meetings, and sharing some of the responsibility now carried by the president.
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