Final election results start coming in, and students gather around the pillars in the Hawklet in Summerfield Hall to see who won or lost. Results were brought in district by district and pasted on the pillars while both Vox and UP members looked on. The results were mirrored on the faces of the spectators—happiness, sorrow and sometimes astonishment were all present. The vote count was finished around 2 a.m. this morning.
Leo Schrey, Leavenworth senior and student body president, balances an umbrella as he joins in excitement as Vox takes the lead in his district.
Everybody is a friend when you win. Kay Orth, El Dorado junior and UP winner in sorority district, is congratulated by Bob Stewart, Vancouver, B.C., graduate student and last year's student body president. The scene was a familiar one last night as the ASC living group election results were announced in the Hawklet of Summerfield Hall.
Photos by Bill Stephens
We Won!
By Barbara Phillips
That was the thought in the minds of both parties as the All Student Council living group elections came to a halt early today.
Some of the lighter moments—at the polls:
"Vote-a-go-go" on the side of the ballot box in Strong Hall.
MIKE McNALLY. Bartlesville, Okla., junior and ASC chairman, falls out of his chair at the polis—probably from over-exertion.
A dignified Bill Robinson, Great Bend sophomore and Student Body vice-president, in suit, vest and tie, licking the tape that seals the deans' card boxes.
At the Hawklet in Summerfield waiting for election results;
In the beginning, only a few people were there; some trying to study. One guy tried to write poetry and ended up talking about KU's Athletic Department.
SOME MOMENTS of panic:
At 10 p.m. the lights go out in the Hawklet, it seems no one remembered to get permission to use the room.
At 8 p.m. ballots were all ready to count; one slight problem—the counting room door is locked; Bill Brier, Overland Park senior and co-chairman of the Elections Committee, appears with the key.
AND NOSTALGIA—
And in the Hawklet—a deserted dark room with spilled coffee and cigarette butts on the floor.
The polls deserted with only empty coke cans and one apple that someone did not have time to eat left.
Elections are over. . . .
16 Daily Kansas Friday, November 12, 1965
Tom Shumaker, Russell senior and UP president, counsels a candidate.