KU
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
WEATHER MILD
76th Year, No.109
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, March 29, 1966
Election battle will conclude with balloting
By Elizabeth Rhodes
The spring election campaign comes to a close tomorrow and Thursday as KU students choose a new student body president, 10 All Student Council members and officers of the three upper classes.
Polls will be open tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. in Strong Hall, Murphy Hall and the Kansas Union.
EACH VOTER will receive a ballot for student body officer, ASC representative from his school and two ballots for four class officers if he is a freshman, sophomore or junior.
Each party supplies approximately 280 workers at the polls. The ASC Elections Committee and various ASC members supervise voting procedures. Tabulation of the ballots begins at 7 p.m. Thursday in Summerfield Hall. The Hawket will remain open until the results are tabulated.
At stake in this week's election is Vox Populi party's eight-seat majority on the All Student Council. Vox won the lead in last
Slow start in election for AWS
By Kathy Vaughan
Voting this morning was slow in many areas on campus as KU women cast votes for Associated Women Students (AWS) officers.
In the rotunda of Strong Hall, seven girls had signed the poll register and the girl at the voting desk said sheepishly, "It's going kind of slow."
ALTHOUGH THE table in the rotunda was primarily for women living off-campus, many of those who had voted there live in organized houses.
Kappa Alpha Theta sorority members had cast five votes at their table set up in the main hall by 10 a.m. The few votes were explained by one member: "I guess not too many girls have early classes." Nancy Gallup, Lawrence sophomore and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, is a candidate for AWS president.
At the Pi Beta Phi house, 17 women had signed the AWS poll register this morning. Cindy Hardin, Lincoln, Neb., sophomore and Pi Beta Phi member, is also a candidate for AWS president.
Upperclass women's halls, Ellsworth and Hashinger, both opened their polls late. Taking votes at 9:30 a.m., seven had voted at each hall by 10 a.m.
Twenty freshman residents of Lewis Hall cast their votes this morning after the polls opened at 8:30 a.m. in their lobby. AWS voting was scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. in all living groups and at Strong Hall.
Spring's school election, but last fall's election produced an even 16-16 split between the two parties. Therefore, the party which can win at least six of the 10 seats this week will have control of the ASC.
THE SPRING 1965 election produced a 23-17 Atv majority in the ASC. At the same time, Leo Schrey, Leavenworth junior representing Vox, defeated Russ Cummings, Topeka graduate student from UP, 2,650 to 2,027, for student body president.
Bob Stewart, UP candidate,
won the position the year before.
He defeated Marshall Crowther,
Vox. 2,399 to 2,171.
Candidates for student body president and vice-president are UP's Al Martin, Shawnee Mission sophomore, and Janet Anderson, Prairie Village sophomore, Vox candidates are Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore, and Dick Daville, Shawnee Mission junior.
All Student Council candidates running from the schools are:
COLLEGE MAN—John Hill, Vox, Waverly junior; Danny Miller. UP, Omaha, Neb., sophomore.
College Woman—Pat Goering,
Vox, Moundridge junior; Joyce
Snapp, UP, Wichita freshman.
Education - Jo Ann Fairbrother,
UP, Great Bend junior; Jackie
Van Eman, Vox, Overland Park
junior.
Journalism — Lynn Eichmeyer,
Vox, Prairie Village junior; Jack
Harrington, UP, Summit, N.J.,
junior.
Fine Arts—Martie Mullins, Vox,
Kalamazoo, Mich., junior; Susan
Sandow, UP, Ottawa sophomore.
Graduate — Hans Brisch, Vox,
Kansas City, Mo., graduate student;
Nurettin (Nicky) Uzuno-
guol, UP, graduate student.
Engineering—Tom Edgar, UP,
Bartlesville, Okla., junior; Ken
Mathiasmeier, Vox, Arkansas
City senior.
Law — Doug Dusenbury, Vox,
Anthony freshman; Jack Ross,
UP Kansas City, Mo., sophomore.
Pharmacy — Winston Hodges, UP, Wichita sophomore; Wayne Schulte, Vox, Hugoton senior.
BUSINESS—Steve Adams, UP,
Leawood junior; Bob McAdoo,
Vox. Larned junior.
NEXT MOVE?
ASC board declines ruling on editorial
By Eric Morgenthaler
The Elections Committee of the All Student Council (ASC) last night decided not to make a judgment on petitions from Vox Populi and University Party concerning Jacke Thayer, Ellsworth senior and co-editorial editor of the University Daily Kansan.
A statement issued jointly by the Elections Committee co-chairmen, Kay Orth, El Dorado junior, and Jim Prager, Annandale, Va., junior, said "The parties which petitioned the Elections Committee have due recourse in the Student Court.
"THE ELECTIONS COMMITTEe will investigate the situation in order to present to the ASC proposals to discourage similar situations from reoccurring in the future."
and Monday. The Vox petition accused Miss Thayer of conspiring with UP to give editorial page support to UP in exchange for UP's influence in acquiring votes for Miss Thayer in an Associated Women Students election. It was accompanied by a notarized affidavit.
The petitions were filed with the Elections Committee Sunday and Monday.
THE UP PETITION denied the Vox charge and demanded an immediate investigation of them. It was accompanied by six notarized affidavits which labeled the Vox charges false.
Miss Orth said if either party wanted a guilty or not-guilty verdict on the charges in the petitions, they would have to go through the Student Court, as the Elections Committee cannot officially make such a decision.
Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., junior and chairman of the ASC, last night endorsed the committee's actions.
"I HAVE A GREAT DEAL of confidence in the judgment of both of the committee co-chairmen," he said. "As I have told them, I will stand behind whatever they decide, and I am sure they will handle it competently."
When informed of the Elections Committee decision, Miss Thayer said, "I think the Elections Committee made a wise decision, since I am considering filing a libel suit
against Mr. Stanion (Tom Stanion, Pratt junior and president of Vox) in civil court."
STANION, IN WHOSE NAME the Vox petition was filed, said last night that he thinks Miss Thayer "will be doing more harm than good" in filing a libel suit
"I don't think she has sufficient grounds to stand on," he said. "By suing, she will just be putting even more emphasis on the question of whether or not our accusations are really true."
Tom Rader, Greensburg sophomore and Vox candidate for student body president, said last night that any further Vox action will come after "further discussion of this with legal counsel and
further clarification of the matter."
BUT AL MARTIN, Shawnee Mission sophomore and UP candidate for student body president, said he doubts Vox will take their petition to court.
"I think it would be senseless for them to do so," he said. "They have no case at all."
The president of UP, Tom Shoemaker, Russell senior, said any further action in the cases should be taken by individuals.
"This has been a bad mark on student government," he said. "Students should just realize what the whole affair has been—a planned political gimmick."
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Candidates differ on editorial 'plot'
Charges and counter-charges concerning an alleged conspiracy between a UDK editorial editor and University Party officials formed the main debate topic last night at a meeting between the two major student body presidential slates.
The second topic of the Ellsworth Hall encounter was party platforms.
Behind the debate is a Vox Populi party petition accusing coeditorial editor Jacke Thayer, Ellsworth senior, of conspiring with four UP workers to throw UDK editorial support to their candidates in return for helping to further her political ambitions. Miss Thayer is a candidate for Associated Women Students Senate.
UP HAS COUNTERED with affidavits denying the charges. These were read last night by Janet Anderson, Prairie Village sophomore and UP candidate for student body vice-president. Other candidates participating were Al Martin, Shawnee Mission sophomore and UP choice for student body president, and
Vox candidates Tom Rader,
Greensburg sophomore, and Dick
Darville, Shawnee Mission junior.
Rader countered saying, "I will personally testify in court that the affidavit presented by Mr. Byrd is in error." He added that the charge against Miss Thayer and the UP workers was not made by Darville and himself, but by Tom Stanion, Pratt senior and Vox president. "He did it because he felt he could not conscientiously keep the issue under cover," Rader said.
IN DISCUSSING the opposition platform, Martin tagged the Vox candidates as insincere. "Vox put out three platforms," he said. "I find that indicative of the lack of sincerity upon the part of Tom and Dick."
Miss Anderson read two notarized statements signed by Martin and Lee Byrd, Lawrence junior and UDK reporter. Both strongly denied that a conspiracy had taken place.
Darville repudiated the argument, emphasizing that his party published two preliminary platforms, followed by the official one now in distribution.
Transfer of student tickets approved in council vote
Students will be able to transfer reserved seat tickets for athletic events to other students because of an amendment passed by the All Student Council (ASC) in a special meeting last night.
The amendment, sponsored by Al Martin, University Party candidate for student body president, and Tom Rader, Vox Populi candidate, was introduced after the ASC Committee on Committees reported as unacceptable two similar amendments introduced at the last ASC meeting, one sponsored by Vox and one by UP.
The amendment passed has been recommended by a 4-0 vote of the Athletic Seating Board and a 4-0 vote of the Committee on Committees.
The amendment reads, "... in the case of reserved seating, a student may transfer his ticket to another member of the student body that would normally be in the same or more favorable reserved section, and that in the case of general admission a student may transfer his ticket to another member of the student body. All transfers subject to validation by the Athletic Seating Board procedure."
Darville discussed the Thayer conspiracy issue, saying, "Tom and I were extremely hesitant to have this issue exposed because of the potential damage to student government. But when the editorial came out we had to raise ethical questions. I hope that no one who is innocent is harmed by the accusations that have been made."
FOLLOWING A SHORT, platform-oriented speech by Miss Anderson, Rader said, "If you disagree with our party's affidavit I hope you won't take it out on Dick and I—I mean at the polls." Two more debates will be held today. They are slated for 4:30 p.m. in the Forum Room of the Kansas Union, and 8 p.m. in McCollum Hall.