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University Daily Kansan, October 25, 1984
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Senate candidate withdraws
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
The chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee last night withdrew from a race for a seat in three days after he filed as a candidate.
The Elections Committee will run the Senate's Nov. 14-15 elections.
Thom Davidson, the chairman,
announced his decision after last
night's Senate meeting. During the
meeting, senators voted after
about 90 minutes of discussion to
recommend that he not run.
"It's not what I wanted to do, but I think the Student Senate is a group that deserves that amount of respect," he said.
Davidson filed on Monday as an independent candidate for a seat representing the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. During his committee chairman's report to the Senate, Davidson asked the body for advice concerning his candidacy.
DURING THE MEETING, Davidson defended his original decision to run and said as Elections Committee chairman, he would
not be able to influence his race.
"Either we believe in our procedures or we don't. Either we believe we'll have an honest election or we don't," he said. "Either we trust one another or we don't."
"I think you can separate the processes that are right and wrong that you follow, from the politics involved," he said. Michael Foubert, graduate senator, also defended Davidson's decision.
But Reza Zoughi, graduate senator, said that although he did not question Davidson's integrity, he didn't think he should run.
And Staci Feldman, School of Allied Health sensor, said, "The lady in charge of a bingo game that pulls the pingpong balls out doesn't play a card. She mediates the game and the players."
"All I want to see is a clean election," he said. "I don't want to see us set a precedent."
IN OTHER ACTION, the Senate voted to table a bill that would allocate about $2,600 for the University Dance Company, the University's semiprofessional dance troupe.
company needed the money for costumes, advertising, audiovisual equipment and technical winter and spring performances.
But several senators questioned whether the Senate could give the group money because of an apparent relationship between the company and a two-hour dance class.
Dana Torchia, business manager for the company, said the
Under Senate rules, "no funds shall be 'allocated to an organization whose primary purpose is for the fulfillment of academic requirements or to any student organization whose members receive academic credit for being a member of the organization."
Torchia said that members of the company were encouraged to take a two-hour dance class and that those who took the class had been given the keys. But, she said, the class technically was not connected to the company.
Zoughi said he wanted to table the bill until he received more information.
The Senate also voted to allocate $ 600 to the Commission on the Status of Women for its annual spring Women's Recognition Program.
The United States and the Soviet Union should use the United Nations to solve problems and not merely to air political differences, a visiting U.S. official said in science and a former ambassador to the Soviet Union said last night.
Prof says powers use U.N. poorly
Andrew Conteh, who was an ambassador for the Republic of Sierra Leone, West Africa, told an audience of about 80 students and faculty members that the United Nations was not a forum for the superpowers to impose their political tensions on other nations.
United Nations Association-USA, the KU Model United Nations and the department of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences of the forming of the United Nations.
Conteh's talk in the Jayhawk Room of the Kansas Union was jointly sponsored by the Douglas County
Conthe said the idea for a group like the United Nations was seriously discussed in 1942 when 26 states joined in the Declaration of the United Nations, pledging to continue the war effort against Germany and the Axis powers and not to make peace separately.
The governing treaty of the United Nations, the U.N. Charter, later was drawn up during a conference in San Francisco in 1945.
The document established a procedure for the organization to maintain international peace and security and to help foster cooperation to rectify international economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems, Conteh said.
He said the threat of nuclear war, an arms race in space and the increased concern over problems in the Third World has made it necessary for the United Nations to serve as a way 16 resolve conflict for all nations.
He said cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union was the most important factor for the United Nations's success in solving the world's problems.
Democratic registration up 16%
the largest classification in the county, recorded an increase of 781, or 5 percent.
The number of registered Democrats in Douglas County has increased 14 percent since 1980, including the release by the county clerk Monday.
With a record number of voters — 40,083 — registered in Douglas County, the biggest increase, 1,358, came in the number of registered Democrats. The Republican party, still larger than the Democratic party, recorded an increase of 33, or 24 percent. Unaffiliated registrants,
Patty Jaimes, county clerk, said yesterday that the increase in the total number of registrants was a result of several factors.
registration locations than ever."
"First you have to consider that Douglas County has grown in population," she said. "There is also a lot of work during presidential campaign years.
"We also had more satellite voting
Jaimes said 47 locations had been set up at different times to register* voters.
The total number of registere
voters breaks down into the following
numbers: unaffiliated. 16,168. Re-
served. 1028. Democrat. 9,864.
and other, 25.
In 1980, 37,916 voters were registered; 15,385 were unaffiliated, 13,995 Republican, 8,506 Democrat and 30 in other parties.
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