Campus Politicos Believe in Sophistication
By Jim Sullinger
With the announcement of Vox and UP platforms this week,political campaigning at KU is in full tilt as the top candidates for each party practice sophisticated politics.
Hand-shaking and extra-vigorous campaign speeches are passe. Projecting the image of an intelligent, earnest, hard-working politician whose only interest is better student government is the concern of the political candidates.
The candidates, announced last week, are Russ Cummings, Topeka graduate student, who heads the University Party (UP) ticket, and Leo Schrey, Leavenworth junior, who will top the Vox ballot.
The vice-presidential candidates are Bill Robinson, Great Bend
sophomore (Vox), and Larry Bast,
Topeka junior (UP).
ONE OBSERVATION expressed by all of these candidates is that running for their offices will be a lot of hard work.
Scheyre said he would probably spend from 50 to 60 hours a week campaigning. Concerning his schoolwork, Scheyre said, "It's hard to keep up from day to day. Spring break is really going to be nice."
He thought that campaigning was enjoyable and said meeting people was the most exciting part.
As to his reason for getting into politics, Schrey said. "Basically, I felt student government could do a lot and I wanted to do it."
SCHREY IS studying business administration and plans to go into government work after graduation.
Cummings said that most of his time on the campaign trail would be spent meeting students, holding discussions, going to UP meetings, going to dinners and keeping up with campus problems.
"I would actively spend from six to eight hours a day on campaigning," he said. "However, every waking moment is involved."
Cummings is studying for his M.S. in civil engineering,
"EACH PERSON HOPES in his career to have an opportunity to contribute to something he believes in," he said. "I think a lot of KU, the students, and its potential."
Cummings' running-mate, Larry Bast, said the most challenging part of campaigning would be trying to get solid Vox members to
realize the UP ticket offers them more.
Bast graduated from Topeka West high school in 1962 and he is presently the editor of the Jayhawker book.
At the height of the election,
Bast said he would be at a lunch
or dinner for a speech every day
and at meetings every evening.
His future plans include going through the graduate business administration program and finally ending up in advertising or public relations.
so. Things have been going smoothly so far."
BAST'S OPPONENT, on the other hand, Bill Robinson, plans to go to law school. He is presently in personnel administration.
"It's a lot of work meeting people and listening to them," he said. "It can be enjoyable if you make it
Robinson said that in talking to students he found a greater interest than he expected for the short time the campaign has been running.
EXPLAINING HIS KIND of campaigning, Robinson said, "First, I keep a large supply of clean shirts. Secondly, I try to maintain a conscious effort to stay on my toes when answering questions. I go from room to room in dormitories but try not to bring politics up on campus."
He said the most frequently asked question has been, "Why should we vote for you and Leo." The question, "Why are you running," has also been asked frequently, according to Robinson.
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Rights Stressed In Party Stands
KU's two political parties added momentum last night to the spring all-school elections with announcements of platforms and candidates.
Vox Populi party revealed its 1965 platform and candidates for eight of the ten school seats. University Party, which announced its full slate last week, unveiled its platform last night.
Vox candidates, and the schools they will run from, are: Ron Peden, Danville senior, engineering; Jon Hope, Kansas City junior, business; Don Gutteridge, Pittsburg first-year law student, law; John Pepper, Lenexa junior, journalism; Spring Stidham, Parkridge, Ill., sophomore, college women; Mike Vineyard, Wymore, Nebr., junior, college men; Jeanette Helfrich, Spearville junior, fine arts; Dan Vossman, Beloit senior, pharmacy.
Texts of Platforms on Pages 5 and 8
THE CANDIDATES FROM the education and graduate schools will be announced later as interviews on these candidates have not been completed.
Student rights and student opinions were the major issues stressed in the platforms of both parties.
Vox advocated the formation of a state and community affairs committee to inform students of civic issues concerning them, and to make state legislators aware of student opinion on the issues. The committee would work through personal correspondence and interviews.
THE UP PLANK dealing with student rights proposes a student committee procedural act to be applied by All Student Council regulatory committees in determining policies and administering discipline.
The act would guarantee individuals and groups a notice and hearing before authorized bodies for alleged violation of University regulations. It would allow them the counsel of an authorized law student, and would permit appeal to the Student Court for violation of prescribed procedures.
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Wescoe to Ink Ad Policy Bill
Daily Hansan
Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe was to sign an amendment to All Student Council Bill 7, prohibiting discrimination in the advertising in student publications, later this afternoon.
The legislation prohibits the use of advertising in student publications of employment, goods, accommodations, or services that are not available to all students, regardless of race, religion or national origin.
The amendment passed at an ASC meeting last Tuesday, also states that any advertising which discriminates in any way against a student due to race, creed, or color, will not be published in student publications.
Chancellor Wescoe reported that he was pleased to sign the bill. It will be mailed to Mike Miner later this evening.
The University Committee on Human Relations, meanwhile, was to meet this afternoon, and may vote on a recommendation to Dr. Wescoe on university housing list policy.
Weather
Snow is forecast through tonight with an accumulation of not more than four inches. Friday will be cloudy and continued cold.
Stolen Ducks, Intrigue Mark Wild Spring Fling Exuberance
Brunt of the eastern campus attack was shared by Miller and Watkins scholarship halls. Between 20 and 40 raiders from men's dorms made their first try for Miller's duck about 8:45.
Spring Fling ducks were temporarily retrieved by the Association of University Residence Halls (AURH) last late night after duck raiders caused havoc and damage on both sides of Mt. Oread.
"WE WERE WARNED about three or four minutes before the attack came," Cathy Waldron, Mankato junior, said. "We rushed outside to protect the duck. The boys started squirting shaving cream and throwing water bombs."
The marauders also tried to
The warning came from Battenfeld Hall social chairman, Jerry Cochran, Harper sophomore. "The people were down here trying to get our duck, then someone in the group suggested they go to Miller." Cochran said. He then called a warning to Miller Hall.
"The first time they came up, I was sitting on the duck's cage, but they took it anyway. Since this was illegal, they brought it back later." Barbara Phillips, Harrisonville. Mo. soophomore, said.
steal Watkins' duck during the first round.
The duck was saved, but not without "casualties." One raider sprayed Miller's housemother, Mrs. Carl Carter, with shaving cream. Two girls, Paula Tangeman, Newton freshman, and Janet Torkelson, Horton freshman, received minor injuries in the melee. Minor injuries were sustained by several other girls.
THE RAIDERS returned about a half hour later for another try at the two ducks, according to Miller and Watkins girls.
"The second time we were prepared for them," Miss Waldron said. "We had a fire extinguisher and we used it."
"I couldn't believe they were beating and stomping on us like
Meanwhile, Ellsworth Hall started the festivities early on Daisy Hill. They lured the Templin Hall guard away from his cage by having him paged. Two Ellsworth residents were ready and volunteered to take over the duck guard. While the regular guard answered his page, the two aliens safely absconded with the fowl.
WATKINS' DUCK, Sniktaw, was saved in the fray, along with Miller's Marmaduke.
that," Melodie Jones, Kansas City freshman, said.
Late in the afternoon Lewis Hall residents got into the spirit and safely guided the Hashinger Hall duck into their cage.
AFTER SEVERAL illegal seizures (because force was used), Templin residents were able to capture the Lewis duck. After a heavy bombardment of the area with water balloons, the guard was drenched. Another girl appeared
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LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, March 25,1965
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World Spotlight
Marchers Finish 50-Mile Walk
MONTGOMERY, Ala.—(UPI)—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. climaxed one of the most unique racial pilgrimages in American history today, leading thousands of followers toward a grievance demonstration at the spot where Jefferson Davis was inaugurated president of the Confederacy.
Dramatizing voter registration procedures and other "injustices" to Negroes in Alabama, King and his group began marching the final three miles of a 50-mile hike from Selma to Montgomery at mid-morning.
The marchers left the St. Jude Catholic school and hospital complex, where they camped Wednesday night, under tight guard by National Guardsmen and Army military policemen. City police cordoned off 104 streets along the route through residential and business districts to the Capitol.
U.S. Says China Makes Threats
SAIGON—(UPI)American authorities said today Communist China's announced willingness to send military forces to South Viet Nam was more of a threat than a promise.
Officially, neither the U.S. Embassy here nor the South Vietnamese government was prepared to make an immediate comment on the Peking statement.
But U.S. analysts said China's position and Wednesday's threat by the Viet Cong to bring in "millions" of Asians to fight American troops both had an "iffy quality."
The Viet Cong call for help was regarded as an attempt to legitimize infiltration and arms smuggling and help rally international support for the Communist cause.
Astronauts Cheered at Site
CAPE KENNEDY—(UPI)—Space twins Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom and John W. Young returned today to the site of their spectacular vault into orbit to receive the accolades of a grateful nation.
The beaming astronauts, greeted with kisses from their wives, landed in separate planes on the Cape's VIP landing strip exactly 48 hours and four minutes after their near-perfect three-orbit space flight began just a short distance away at launch pad 19.
As the astronauts climbed from their planes, an Air Force band struck up the theme song of the musical show "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" in honor of their Gemini-3 spaceship, affectionately nicknamed "Molly Brown."
Scientists Study Moon Shots
PASADENA, Calif.—(UPI)—Scientists today began a hard-nosed study of lunar terrain photos obtained by three Ranger spacecraft to decide whether the moon's highlands or lowlands provide the best manned landing site.
Rangers 7 and 8 photographed the lunar lowlands—the Sea of Tranquility and Mare Cognitum or Known Sea. Wednesday's Ranger 9 snapped pictures of the highlands—the crater Alphonsus.
The ninth and last of the Rangers was the most successful in the $270 million program.
The pile of 17,500 photographs returned by the three Rangers is providing earth-bound scientists with more moon information in the past year than astronomers—starting with Copernicus, Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton—have in all recorded history.
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