Vox Populi Sweeps Election
Jerry Dickson, Newton junior, led Vox Populi to an overwhelming victory in the student government elections yesterday as he won the student body presidency by a 350-vote margin.
Vox continued to control the All Student Council by winning eight of the 10 contested seats.
THE STOCKY, HARD-CAMPAigning Dickson polled 1810 votes to defeat University Party candidate Gerald (Kep) Kepner, who received 1460 votes.
Dickson's victory put Vox candidate George Hahm, Scotch Plains, N. J., junior, into the vice presidency. Tom Hardy, Hoisington junior, was defeated with Keppner.
A highlight in the vote-counting in Bailey Hall was the announcement of the winner of the senior class presidency in the closest race of the election.
IN THIS CONTEST. Mike Mead,
Kansas City, Mo., junior, defeated
Chuck Patterson, Rockford, Ill., juni-
ner, 359-358.
UP members of the ASC elections committee questioned the count of the senior class ballots, but a recount confirmed the slim margin in favor of Mead.
The only ASC seats captured by UP were those of the School of Pharmacy and College Women.
UP candidate Kay Cash, Fairview Park, Ohio, sophomore, won an easy
victory in the College women division, defeating Janice Huffman (Vox). Junction City sophomore, 529-349.
IN A TOUGHER CONTEST. Phyllis Wertzberger, Lawrence senior,
defeated Larry Milne (Vox), Lawrence senior, for the School of Pharmacy seat with a 37-23 vote.
See page 12 for tabulated results of yesterday's election.
The only serious opposition from Action-sponsored candidates were in the contests for the School of Education, School of Law, and Graduate School.
In the Graduate School, Hans Krause of Caracas Venezuela, received 43 votes to 63 for Vox candidate Rab Malik. Karachi, Pakistan Larry Jones of St. John (UP), received nine votes.
IN THE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION race, Nolen Ellison, Kansas City junior, was a fairly close second to Vox candidate Judy Fitts, Topeka junior. The final count gave Miss Fitts a 156-128 victory.
In the Law School race, Leo Kelly (Vox). Lawrence law student, polled 35 votes to 24 votes for Bob Serra (independent), Frontenac law student.
The other two independent candidates posed no real challenge in their divisions. Don Warner, Topeka junior, was in third place in the balloting for College men with 234 votes. Zeke Wigglesworth, Lawrence junior, who was not an Action-supported candidate, took second place in School of Journalism voting.
GREG TURNER (VOX), Seattle. Wash., junior, won the College men seat, defeating Blaine King (UP). Emporia junior, 591-450.
Dennis Branstiter (Vox), Independence, Mo., junior, won the School of Journalism seat with 26 votes. Ben Marshall (UP), Lincoln junior, received 10 votes.
The winners of other ASC seats were Larry Borcherding, Kansas City, Mo., junior, Business; Anne Peddie, Wichita junior, Fine Arts; and Dick Jones, Lenexa freshman. Engineering.
THE RESULTS OF THE CLASS elections were:
Senior class officers, to serve with Mead — Phil McKnight, Wichita vice president; Judy Geisendorf, Salina, secretary, and Wallye Heyde, Shawnee Mission, treasurer.
Junior class — Dave Brollier, Hugoton, president; John Linden, Salina, vice president; Sue Runnells, Greeley, Colo., secretary and Bruce Null, Grand Island, Neb. treasurer.
Sophomore class — Gary Bell, McLouth, president; Charles Blaas.
Daily hansan
59th Year, No. 126
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Thursday, April 26, 1962
Shaffer Poses World State to Halt Conflict
Prof. Shaffer was one of five KU faculty members on a panel which discussed nuclear testing and disarmament. The discussion was sponsored by the Student Peace Union.
Harry Shaffer, assistant professor of economics, yesterday said a world state is the only permanent way to prevent a nuclear war, but he said formation of such an organization is very unlikely.
ALL FIVE ATTACKED THE resumption of nuclear testing by the United States.
The other panel members were Charles Landesman, assistant professor of philosophy; Richard Burke,
Harry Shaffer
assistant professor of human relations; John Ise, professor emeritus of economics; and Arnold Strassenburg, assistant professor of physics and moderator of the discussion.
Prof. Shaffer said, "Short of unconditional surrender, there is only one way in which war, and therefore nuclear war, could be forever banned from this earth—voluntary submission of all nations to a world government with exclusive power, both constitutional and physical, to
settle any dispute among the Federated States of the World.
"I HOPE THAT WE CAN accomplish it," he continued. "I doubt that we shall, because it is hardly necessary. I believe, to spell out the probability of . . . leaders of nations, east and west, sitting down together and agreeing to surrender voluntarily their country's sovereignty to a world government."
"And yet towards this goal, I firmly believe, we must work incessantly. For if we fail, we shall not have a second chance.
"I firmly believe," Prof. Shaffer added, "that neither President Kennedy nor Khrushchev would consciously and on purpose start a thermonuclear war but there are countless possibilities that could bring on such a war," he said. "First of all, accidents are possible and some have already occurred though no accidental nuclear explosion has yet taken place.
- The nuclear deterrent power of the United States is already sufficient.
- New tests will not provide significant new information.
"A NUCLEAR WAR MIGHT come in a step by step development, the spreading of a local war, one side using the first small, tactical, nuclear weapon, the other retaliating, and so on," he said.
"I have the feeling that the President believes the walls are beginning to tumble down. Perhaps he decided to test in order to prove to the Russians that we are not growing soft."
- The U.S. Department of Health says fallout presents a danger to genetics and health. At least a few will be adversely affected.
His six points against testing were:
Prof. Landesman gave six reasons why testing should not have been resumed.
- "Any series of tests . . . can only stimulate new tests . . . in order to maintain the balance of terror. We have provided Khrushchev with a
justification ahead of time for his series of tests."
- Testing is a "crime against humanity." Since the victims of fallout are selected at random, the false illusion that nothing is morally wrong with testing is created.
- The new series of tests will alienate world opinion, especially among the uncommitted nations. "On an issue the voice of innocent people ought to be heard."
"It SEEMS THE BETTER PART of cowardice to say that there is some fire where there is so much smoke and so much controversy," he said. "We can no longer afford to just hold hands while the world goes on around us."
Prof. Burke said there is much controversy among U.S. scientists about how much we have to fear from testing.
"If we and the Russians go on test-
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Lawrence, vice president; Carolyn Power, Kansas City, Mo., secretary, and Nancy Patterson, Wichita, treasurer.
AN AMENDMENT CLARIFYING the term of office of the ASC chairman passed by a 1,521-vote margin, 2,180-659. The acceptance of the amendment guarantees that the ASC chairman can hold office even if his council membership expires.
The question leading to the referendum was raised this year when Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior and acting chairman of ASC, was scheduled to lose his membership on the ASC at the end of the fall semester. He had, at that time, served on ASC for one year, the maximum allowed in the ASC constitution.
Palmer was elected to the ASC in tenure.
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the fall of 1960 and was elected chairman in the spring of 1961. For the current semester, he has been serving as ASC chairman without technically being a member.
As the evening wore on, some of the girls were embracing the winners, other students sifted around shaking hands with new ASC members and congratulating each other, but some of the elder statesmen leaned back in their chairs, completely worn out and just watched the festivities.
Worries Sent to Winds As Vox Celebrates Wins
The students went into hysteresis as many Vox members looked expectantly down the steps and saw the smiling face of Holly Thompson, Ottawa freshman, as she rushed up to post the student body president results.
Outside the counting room in Bailey Hall earlier in the evening, some 100 students nervously gathered around the window which separates the elections officials from the on-lookers. As the results were brought up from the counting room and posted on the window the predominately Vox audience began yelling and grabbing the hands of the winning candidates.
Worries of hour examinations, term papers, and women's closing hours were thrown to the winds last night as members of Vox Populi celebrated at a local restaurant their near sweep of the All Student Council seats.
Politicians, candidates, and well-wishers gathered to recover from the long weeks of campaigning by dancing with the girls, who received extended closing hours.
THE AMENDMENT ACCEPTED in the referendum reads;
Jerry Dickson, newly elected president of the student body, arrived on the shoulders of a bevy of his fraternity brothers. After several toasts and chants, Dickson was lifted to a table where he said, "My speech is short and to the point. Thank you very much."
Both Vox and UP members were present early in the evening, but as the night wore on most of the UP members left and only came in to check the posted results.
The reactions of the candidates differed from quiet, but sincere handshakes for the new School of Engineering representative Dick Jones, to the frantic screams when Dickson's victory was posted.
"The All Student Council shall elect from its membership one person to serve during an entire session (a session shall be defined to be from spring election to spring election) as chairman of the All Student Council. If his regular term should expire during a session he shall retain his position as chairman as a member at large. A vice chairman, secretary, and treasurer shall also be elected from the membership of the council. They shall serve only during their tenure as members of the council."
One candidate for a class office came running into Bailey in bermuda shorts, her hair wet from swimming with the Quack Club. When she saw the star beside her name, signifying that she had won, she hugged her similarly clad girl friend.
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Gloom Marks UP Gathering
University Party candidates and supporters wandered from table to table sipping cans of beer, mumbling dejectedly, and shaking their heads in disbelief.
The Wagon Wheel was quiet, much more quiet than it usually is on Wednesday evenings.
Vox Populi had just won eight of the 10 vacant seats on the All Student Council.
Wisps of cigarette smoke curled lazily into a blue fog that dimmed the overhead lights.
Earlier in the evening, UP candidates had been happier. A rousing chorus of cheers greeted the announcement that Kay Cash, Cleveland, Ohio, sophomore and UP candidate for the college women's seat, had won.
But these announcements were few and far between.
Jim Anderson, UP co-chairman, scratched his head as he announced that the Vox candidate, Greg Turner, Seattle, Wash., sophomore, had won the college men's seat.
Anderson said, "I expected that Warner (Don Warner, Topeka junior and independent candidate for the college men's seat on the ASC) would split the vote."
Someone opened the back door of the "Wheel," and the smoke began to clear.
Anderson sat quietly in a large, semi-circular booth in the southwest corner of the room.
He could only say, "We'll be back next fall."
Ranger-4 Reaches Moon
By Douglas Diltz
GOLDSTONE TRACKING STATION, Calif. — (UPI) — America scored space triumph today when its Ranger-4 spacecraft boomeranged into the far side of the moon, marking the free world's first hit on the lunar surface.
The wayward spacecraft plunged to destruction on the moon's hidden side at 6:49 a.m. to achieve what scientists hailed as a "tremendous guidance success" toward future space exploration by man.
"It is the first step toward man eventually walking on the moon," exclaimed Cummings.
The historic space feat was the first hit on the moon in nearly four years and 11 tries for JPL scientists who built the moon probe vehicle.
BUT THEY CONCEDED it was a
It covered the 258,857 mile journey to the moon in the 63 hours 59 minutes 45 seconds. Because the spacecraft's electronic brain failed early in its voyage, JPL's Goldstone tracking station, secluded in the desert here, was forced to follow its path with the tiny, weak 50-millowatt radio in the space capsule. The tracking station did
"lucky accident" on the part of the Ranger which failed in its prime mission of taking lunar pictures and landing a 300-pound space capsule on the face of the moon.
The Ranger crashed in unknown lunar terrain after grazing past the outside edge of the illuminated half of the moon by some 900 miles and then looping back into the far side at 6,000 miles an hour under gravitation pull.
the job with its huge antenna, weighing 270,000 pounds and with 85-foot reflecting dishes.
HOWEVER, SCIENTISTS felt the errant Ranger-4 vindicated itself by hitting the moon.
The moon probe vehicle was launched from Cape Caneral Monday aboard an Atlas Agena B rocket in what was described as "a perfect liftoff." But the trouble in the Ranger's complex communication system developed only two hours later.
After being given a terrific boost to build up speed to 25,000 miles an hour in order to escape the earth's gravity field, the vehicle gradually decreased in speed. It traveled most of the distance between 3,000 and 4,000 miles an hour.