Daily hansan
62nd Year, No.39
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1964
Bills Left 'Dead As ASC Halts
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
The All Student Council ground to a halt last night—with its "dead legislation" still dead.
The Council adjourned at 9 p.m. when it was unable to obtain a quorum following a recess. The adjournment left undefined the status of 27 bills and amendments which were to have been reviewed at the meeting.
The 27 items of legislation had been passed by the Council from October 6, 1963, to May 12, 1964. They had not been submitted to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for approval or veto as required by the ASC Constitution.
MIKE MINER, LAWRENCE senior and ASC chairman, had planned to have the legislation re-submitted and voted on at the meeting. Miner had asked Gary Walker, Wichita junior and ASC vice-chairman, to read the legislation.
Before Walker could begin, Council members questioned the legality of the procedure.
Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika senior, asked if Walker could be considered the sponsor of the items as new legislation.
IF WALKER WAS submitting them as new legislation, Bgoya said, then the bills would have to follow the normal route of new legislation. This would include being referred to the Committee on Committees and Legislation, reported by the Committee to the Council, and then final action by the Council.
Bgoya called the procedure Miner had proposed "unparliamentary."
Miner then said this was not a normal situation in that the bills had already been presented to and passed by the Council, but had not been presented to the Chancellor. Miner said he had asked for the reading of the bills so the Council, the Chancellor and the administration would know what was being passed.
ROY Miller, Topeka senior, moved to declare all the legislation Walker was about to read to be reaffirmed by a single vote by the Council. This would have eliminated the reading of each of the 27 bills.
Miner advised the Council against this procedure. "There is a problem here in that you do not know what you are voting on," he said. "Not all the members of this body were here when some of this legislation was passed."
Gary Gilstrap, Galena fifth-year pharmacy student, said he favored the motion by Miller to affirm all the bills at once.
"If we have faith in the past members of the Council, and as they were duly sworn members, I think we have to accept what they passed," Gilstrap said.
Bob Hicks, Kansas City, Mo., junior, voiced support of Miner's plan, asking that each piece of legislation be read.
"I like to know what I'm voting for before I vote for it," Hicks said.
Miner then agreed to change his original plans and said all legislation would be introduced and then submitted to the Committee on Committees. Miner said that any Council member who had originally submitted any of the 27 bills or amendments could resubmit them. Walker would introduce the rest, he said.
A recess was called. The Council attempted to reconvene following the recess, but the 15 members who answered a roll call did not constitute a quorum necessary to conduct business. Originally 26 of 39 ASC members had been present. Eleven did not return after the recess.
Miner then adjourned the meeting after calling a special meeting next Tuesday to discuss the legislation.
Though membership of the Council will change following the election today and tomorrow of living district representatives, Miner asked that all members of the old Council be present at the special meeting.
THE COUNCIL also heard a representative from Student Union Activities speak on the bloc seating plan at SUA-sponsored events.
New members will not be sworn in until the next regular ASC meeting.
Mike Rogers, Hutchinson senior and SUA special events chairman, told the Council how seats were apportioned to students living in the unmarried-unorganized district.
Hugh Taylor, Stoke-on-Trent, England, graduate student, had requested an explanation from SUA because members of his constituency had been unable to obtain good seats for the Harry Belafonte concert Saturday.
Rogers said 1,727 seats at $2.50 a seat had been reserved for on-campus sales. The on-campus sales are planned for students in this district, Rogers said, rather than allocating them at the same time the blocs given to Greek houses and residence halls.
Rogers said the seats reserved for on-campus sales were of the same quality—if not better—than the seats allocated to organized groups.
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POLLS OPEN-KU students began voting today for ASC representatives and freshman officers.
Photos by Tom Hahler
Balloting Begins
Organization Lack Charged
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Voting began this morning in the All Student Council living district elections, but a lack of organization and spirit in KU's two political parties will keep the total vote low, the ASC elections chairman said.
Brian Grace, Lawrence first-year law student and ASC election chairman, said about 4,000 to 4,500 students could be expected to vote for representatives from the ten campus living districts.
"This is about 1,000 below the number that should be," Grace said.
LACK OF ORGANIZATION, spirit and publicity by both parties—University Party and Vox Populi—are factors which will limit voter turnout, he said.
Students may vote in the Kansas Union, Murphy Hall and the rotunda of Strong Hall. Poll workers representing both parties distribute ballots and members of the ASC are present to clear up any problems voters may have.
Polls will be open until 6 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. tomorrow.
The polls were 15 minutes to a half hour late opening at Strong this morning.
Art Ogilvie, North Kansas City senior and UP poll superviser, said poll workers from both parties failed to appear for the 8 a.m. scheduled opening.
Tonight members of the ASC elections committee will guard the ballots. Sorting and counting of the ballots will begin at about 7 p.m. tomorrow in Summerfield Hall. Results will be posted throughout the evening in the Hawklet in the basement of Summerfield. Tabulating is done by an IBM machine.
In the past the counting took place in Bailey Hall, but the Statistical Service has moved to 112 Summerfield. This is the first year politicians will gather there for the late-night waiting and watching session that accompanies campus elections.
Vote totals and the districts at 1 p.m. were fraternity, 256; sorority, 91; men's large residence halls, 206; women's large residence halls, 98; men's small residence halls, 61; women's residence halls, 19; freshman women's residence halls, 159; unmarried-unorganized, 124; married, 36; and professional fraternities and co-op. 8.
Freshmen voting in the three polling places totaled 433.
The Strong Hall poll was drawing the most voters with 591 having cast their ballots by 1 p.m. Murphy had drawn 158 and the Union had drawn 308 by that time.
Japanese Left Wing Agitators Protesting U.S. Nuclear Subs
TOKYO —(UPI)— More than 12,000 left wing demonstrators protesting the impending arrival of an American nuclear-powered submarine in southern Japan clashed in riots with police in Tokyo tonight.
Another anti-sub demonstration erupted in the southern part of Sasebo, where the U.S. submarine Sea Dragon is due to dock tomorrow morning (5 p.m. CST Wednesday).
In advance of the Sea Dragon's arrival, the government dispatched 2,500 policemen to Sasebo. Authorities feared similar demonstrations at Yokosuka City, site of another U.S. navy base.
LEFT-WINGERS staged an anti-nuclear demonstration in Tokyo tonight, but there were no reports of violence.
The Japanese Socialist and Communist parties rushed thousands of
their followers to Sasebo to stir up more violence and try to prevent members of the submarine's crew from coming ashore.
The Socialist party, second largest in the country, urged its followers to use "all means" to get the government to reverse its newly announced policy of allowing American nuclear-powered submarines to call in Japan.
Related story on page 5.
Weather
SOCIALIST LEADERS predicted the protests over the nuclear
The weather bureau predicts partly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thundershowers tonight and a low near 50. Cooler weather and partly cloudy skies are predicted for tomorrow.
The rioting was seen as only a foretaste of more to come.
submarines would bring down the new government of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, who took office Monday.
The Tokyo riot was the worst, with some 12,000 left wingers gathering at Hibiya Park near the imperial palace in downtown Tokyo. The crowd included students and workmen rounded up by the left-leaning Sohyo Labor Federation.
After a mass meeting in the park, the demonstrators marched on the Japanese parliament building, with Zengakuren students spearheading the move.
WHEN THEY REACHED the parliament building's parking lot, an estimated 1,800 demonstrators staged a sit-down strike. But the police moved in swiftly and carted them away unceremoniously.