UP Gains Two-Vox Keeps Council Lead
By Stephen Russell
An even split between University Party and Vox Populi, in both the number of districts and council seats won, resulted from last nights tabulations of the All Student Council's fall living district elections.
In a close race throughout the returns, 32 seats were elected, both parties winning 16. Likewise, each party claimed the majority of seats in three districts and they tied in the other four. Last fall 30 seats were elected with Vox winning the majority, 16-14. UP won in more districts last year, claiming five to Vox's four and tying in one.
BEFORE THIS week's elections, Vox held ten more seats than UP. Although Vox still holds 28 seats, it is only eight seats ahead of UP since their
total was raised to 18 last night.
total was raised to 18 last night.
The tabulation spurred open with returns from six districts coming in one hour and 23 minutes. It sputtered to a close with returns from the other four districts and the freshman class officers taking three hours and 37 minutes.
slow ending count was evident in Election Committee Co-chairman Bill Brier's opening explanatory speech to the Election Committee member taillers.
The reason for the fast starting.
"WELL START by picking the district with the smallest number of ballots cast and then proceed through to the largest, leaving the districts to be hand-counted
(men's large halls and freshman women's halls) to the last," said Brier. Shawnee Mission senior.
At 8:30 p.m. the doors to the statistic center in the basement of Summerfield Hall were locked and the counting began. Two minutes later the returns from the first district, Professional-cooperative, were posted. Repeating last year's return, one representative. UP, was elected to the council from the district. At 8:36 p.m. the return from the second district was counted, women's small halls, showing that one representative had been elected as before. This year it was claimed by Vox, instead of UP.
Who Won . . .
(Editor's Note—Listed below are all of the candidates in all of the contests with the number of first place votes. With the ballot counting system used at KU, the persons winning the most first place votes is not necessarily elected to the office.)
PROFESSIONAL-
COOPERATIVES
Larry Heilund (UP) 37
Dennis Colombo (Vox) 23
SMALL WOMEN'S HALLS
Rachel Hall (Vox) 50
Llona Marshell (UP) 29
Terry Hill (write-in) 5
MARRIED
Vernon Voorhees (UP) 59
Rick Simpson (Vox) ... 36
John Seitz (Vox) ... 33
Mike Johnson (UP) ... 24
SMALL MEN'S HALLS
Jim Prager (Vox) ... 130
Jim Klumpp (Vox) ... 164
UNMARRIED-
UNORGANIZED
Zuhair "ZuZu" Duhaiby
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The married district's return came 13 minutes later, showing it had again elected two representatives, one from each party.
THE MEN'S SMALL hall returns at 8:58 p.m. elected, in another repeat from last year, two representatives to the council, both from Vox. Bill Robinson, Great Bend junior and student body vice-president, said, "This might be the biggest return ever for a district, on a percent-
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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Friday, November 12. 1965
Student Freedom Movement Gains Momentum at Meeting
By Lee Byrd
A push for greater student responsibility at KU was sparked last night at an open meeting of Students for a Democratic Society.
About 80 persons, some faculty members, declared their unanimous support of a program which would allow students to exercise greater control over their lives. Specific suggestions included equalization of rules as they apply to men and women—meaning an abolishment of closing hours—and greater freedom to operate private living quarters, including
the right to keep alcoholic beverages.
ALTHOUGH THE meeting was billed as an SDS function, many who attended were not SDS members. "This is not an SDS issue." Jim Masters, Kansas City graduate student, and editor of an SDS magazine, said. "This is an issue for all students who think they have the right to be treated as an adult, SDS can merely play a part in getting the ball rolling."
Peggy Smith, Garden City senior and not a SDS member, said "this is an issue that has the support especially of KU women. There is a myth that we have always been in favor of closing hours, and that officially is why we have them. That simply is not true. The Associated Women Students (AWS) has supposedly 'ratified' closing hours at a conclave every four years, but those who have voted in such instances are screened by the Dean of Women's Office first. I know that a majority of KU women don't feel they have to be treated like children. Most of them would like to see closing hours abolished."
Court Grants Injunction
A petition was filed, and a temporary restraining order was granted Thursday by the Student Court which could stop the sale of student season basketball tickets, slated to go on sale Monday.
The petition was filed by John Foulston, Wichita second-year law student, who is the plaintiffs' attorney. The plaintiffs are Barry A. Bennington, Cheney second-year law student, Gary D. Hanna, Wichita third-year law student, and Melvin A. Saferstein, St. Joseph, Mo., third-year law student. The petition is filed against the Student Athletic Seating Board, a committee of the ASC, and its chairman, T. J. Snyder, Independence first-year law student. (Continued on page 14)
MISS SMITH emphasized, however, that the closing hour is not an issue itself. "It's part of the overall question of whether men and women at a university have a right to govern their own lives. Are they going to be adults, or are they going to be cripples, plodding along on the crutches of the University? Are they going to be citizens now, or are they going to be thrust upon a complex world that sudden moment when the sheepskin is placed in their hands and told: 'Now--you're an adult.'"
Mrs. Donald Emmons, whose husband is a professor of philos-
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Ike Relaxes After Mild Chest Pains
AUGUSTA, Ga.—(UPI)—Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower relaxed with a supply of Western novels today while doctors watched closely for any return of chest pains that could herald a full-scale heart attack.
The 75-year-old statesman and five star-general "experienced no pain" Thursday in his five-room suite at the Ft. Gordon Army Hospital and doctors said he had "a good evening meal and enjoyed it."
EUT THE team of specialists attending Eisenhower warned there could be more of the chest pains which hospitalized the two-term president Tuesday and recurred more strongly Wednesday.
"It is not uncommon for patients with known coronary disease to experience repeated episodes of chest pain which may or may not progress to a full blown heart attack," the specialists said.
Capt. Wallace Hitchcock, an Army public information officer, said Eisenhower recalled that Thursday was the 10th anniversary of his "successful recovery" from a severe heart attack in 1955.
- Illustration by Richard Geary
Dwight Eisenhower ... ill at 75
Physician Says Alcoholism Not KU Problem
By Jerry Kern
Although student drinking is always a constant problem, KU has very few cases of true alcoholism, according to Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of Watkins Hospital.
THERE ARE SEVERAL reasons why students drink, Dr. Schwegler said. Many students find themselves suddenly removed from their home environment and their parents' watchful eye, and they begin to experiment with drinking. Some probably are not used to large quantities of alcohol and overdo their drinking, he said.
"Hardly a night goes by that we, at the hospital, do not experience some serious overtones from the students' use of alcohol," he said. "Alcohol slows a person's reactions. We can almost always expect at least one student each weekend who has been injured in some way because of his intoxicated condition."
Editor's Note—This is the first in a series by a Kansan staff member on drinking by KU students, its existence and effects. The series will probe medical opinions and the extent of drinking among students.
"Some students, trying to prove something to themselves, accept dares, and drink large quantities of beer or liquor.
We have had some of these students in the hospital with almost fatal results. But there are only one or two of these cases each year," Dr. Swegleger said.
"We get students in the hospital who are so drunk that we can not cope with them," he continued. "These we have to send to jail to sober up, because they insist on showing their violence."
DR. SCHWEGLER EXPLAINED why alcohol causes some people to react in this way. Alcohol is like an anesthetic. Most of us have angry tendencies hidden within us, he said. When the alcohol content of the blood reaches a certain point, many of our inhibitions are released. When this occurs, we find that there is quite a fire beneath the usually self-controllable person.
Many of the problems of alcohol exist
probably because many do not understand alcoholism, Dr. Schwegler explained.
"We have had some girls brought to us who were apparently the object of a little fun. Their dates probably tried to get them into this condition, and the girls did not realize how much or what they were drinking. This is done easily with a liquor, such as vodka," he said.
ALCOHOL IS BURNED as a carbohydrate within the body. Like either or other anesthesia, alcohol attaches itself to the nerve cellular structure, which deadens the nerves in varying degrees depending on the quantity used.
Essentially, alcohol is a food substance which, when used in certain quantities, can become an anesthesia, or when used to extremes, can be a doctor. Dr. Schlegler
pointed out that this process is not reversible.
Some student think that alcohol, when used in light doses, will allow them to function better. All this does, however, is to ease certain tensions, he says.
"THE USE OF ANY drug will hamper a person in some way. A student would be able to do his best without stimulants, but with just a good night's sleep. The use of alcohol or other stimulants gives only a false sense of security. It would not be sensible to use these materials prior to a time when a person wanted to think sharply," he said.
"To my knowledge there is no state law preventing the sale or drinking of 3.2 per cent beer anywhere in the state of Kansas. However, the campus policy probably dates back to the grassroots history of the campus when Kansas was essentially a dry state," he said.
"Social laws of this type should not be forced upon the student. We are interested in a working relationship with the students, whereby all on the Hill are able to meet with general approval of such policies," he said.