Daily hansan
Monday, April 23, 1962
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES—One of these men will be chosen student body president in the election tomorrow and Wednesday. At left is Jerry Dickson, Newton junior and Vox Populi candidate, and on the right is Gerald (Kep) Kepner, Wichita junior and University Party candidate.
Politicos Predict Big Vote Turnout
Amid the confusion of last minute speeches, dinners, buttonholing uncommitted students and political pow-wows, those concerned with All Student elections optimistically predict a large voting turnout.
In the elections to be held tomorrow and Wednesday, students will elect the president and vice president of the student body, All Student Council school district representatives and class officers as well as voting on a referendum for the ASC constitution.
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The All Student Council elections tomorrow and Wednesday will include a referendum to determine whether the office of ASC chairman can be held by a person whose council membership has expired.
Students to Vote In Referendum
Under the present provisions, the chairman is selected each spring from the membership of the council and serves until the following spring. If the chairman was elected to the council in the fall elections, that person will not be a member of the council during the latter portion of his term as chairman unless he runs again in the following fall elections.
To clear up the question of whether the chairman can keep his office after his regular term expires, the ASC decided to call for the following referendum:
"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."
The referendum question will not appear in its entirety on the ballots.
A problem arose this year when Jerry Palmer, El Dorado senior and acting chairman of the ASC, was supposed to be relieved of his membership on the ASC at semester break because he had served on the ASC for one year, all that is allowed in the Constitution.
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Palmer was elected to ASC membership in the fall of 1960 but not until the spring of 1961 was he elected the chairman. Therefore, for the last semester, he has been serving as chairman of the ASC but technically was not a member.
Max Eberhart, present Student body president, said he expects about 3,200 students to cast their ballots in the two-day election. He added that this is not a large voting turnout for a school with 10,000 students but it is large in comparison with past elections.
He said that he expected the student body president elections to be somewhat close.
"THE WINNER won't win by more than 350 votes," he said, "They've both campaigned hard."
Gerald (Kep) Kepner, the University Party candidate for student body president, said the election will probably be close; he predicted the total vote to be around 3.500.
His Vox Populi opponent, Jerry Dickson, was more optimistic about the voting turnout, predicting it to be approximately 4.000.
Mel Saferstein, St. Joseph, Mo., graduate student and ASC elections committee chairman, set his prediction at 3.000.
Kepner stressed that both he and Dickson wanted to campaign on their individual merits, but added that he thought most Greek houses would vote by their party and that the large dormitory vote might make the difference.
SENIOR CLASS — president,
Chuck Patterson, Rockford, Ill., and
Mike Mead, Kansas City, Mo.; vice
president, Phil McKnight, Wichita,
and Chuck Burin, Imperial, Pa.; secretary, Judy Geisendorf, Salina, and Ruth Ann James, Kansas City, Mo.; treasurer, Cleve Howard, Wichita, and LaWalta Heyde, Shawnee Mission.
JUNIOR CLASS — president, David Brollier, Hugoton, and Carl Logan, Holliday; vice president, Robert Bush, Webster Groves, Mo. and John Linden, Salina; secretary, Betty Carpenter, Kirkwood, Mo. Joyce Manville, Wathena, and Suzanne Runnels, Greeley, Colo.; treasurer, Bruce Null, Grand Island, Neb. and Judy Southard, Springfield, Mo.
Candidates for the class offices are:
SOPHOMORE — president, Gary Bell, McNeil, Lejouvenat, Columbus, Neb., and Doyle White, Arkansas City; vice president, Charles Blaas, Lawrence, and Barry Duwe, Lucas; secretary, Carolyn Power, Kansas City, Mo. and Mary Louise St. Clair, Independence; treasurer, Nancy Patterson, Wichita, and Allan Clark, Wichita.
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Candidates for Student body
59th Year, No.123
Power Balance Affects Geneva Test Ban Talks
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
In world armament such a balance exists that it is unlikely that any nation deliberately would touch off a war.
Yet that very balance is a negative force, the nature of which was described by United Nations Secretary General U Thant.
The United States and Russia, the world's two super-powers, he said, "may not be able to make the world behave as they wish, but they have the power to destroy it."
And with the prospect that this destructive power may be doubled by 1966, there has come the mounting fear of a war by accident and the pressing realization that a halt to the arms race no longer is a goal for the future but a necessity for the present.
AT THE 17-NATION disarmament conference in Geneva, the United States and the Soviet Union have presented their rival plans for world disarmament.
On the surface they bear many similarities.
Both call for a halt to production of fissionable materials for nuclear weapons.
Both call for arms and troop cuts under supervision.
Both would discard the means of delivery of such weapons.
And both call for an international peace-keeping force.
But there the similarity ends abruptly.
THE SOVIET UNION refused to permit verification of arms retained. It also refused to permit international inspection of suspected nuclear test sites and calls for an uncontrolled moratorium on underground nuclear tests.
At Geneva, the eight so-called uncommitted nations, generally have shown themselves more sympathetic to the Russian proposals than to those advanced by the United States and Britain.
U. S. ambassador Arthur H. Dean curtly told the Russians that the United States, having been deceived once, does "not have any confidence in a Soviet pledge."
One is that the Russians genuinely fear espionage.
SOVIET INSISTENCE on veto rights over inspection of suspected test sites and arms reduction has led to two lines of speculation.
The other is that Russia actually is not interested in calling off the arms race, and merely seeks propaganda advantage from renewed U.S. nuclear testing. If the Russians were sincere, it seems probable that a first step could be taken in troop reductions without great risk to either side.
For, as the United States already has told U Thant, "Nuclear weapons are a necessary deterrent to a potential aggressor who is armed with such weapons and openly threatens the free world."
Meanwhile, at Johnston and Christmas Islands in the Pacific, the air strips, the mess halls, the dugouts and the warehouses are ready for the next U.S. nuclear tests, now scheduled for this week.
Without inspection no nuclear agreement seems possible.
Fair this afternoon, tonight and
Tuesday. Warmer this afternoon
and Tuesday and over Northwest
portion tonight. Increasing southerly
winds Tuesday. Low tonight in
the 40s. High Tuesday near 80.
Weather
Northeast — Fair and warmer today, tonight and Tuesday. High around 70. Low tonight mid 40s. High Tuesdays 75 to 80.
Too Many Arrive For Corps Exam
Thirteen potential Peace Corps members were turned away from taking the Peace Corps examination, held at the Lawrence Post Office Saturday because of a shortage of test forms.
"We're doing everything in our power to get the test re-scheduled as soon as possible," Phillip Stiles, assistant civil service examiner, said.
HE SAID only ten tests had been sent from Washington instead of the expected 20. As it was, 23 students showed up to take the examination.
Stiles said a rise in interest in the Peace Corps in this area has tripled the number of applicants.
Asked how the tests are distributed to the various examination centers, Stiles said he did not know, but that the number of tests sent out probably was based on the number showing up for previous examinations.
At the last testing day in February, only seven persons appeared. At that session they had 20 tests mailed to them from the Peace Corps Department in Washington.
A PEACE CORPS official who was at KU last October was critical about the lack of interest displayed here for the Peace Corps. At the October meeting, only eight KU students inquired about the Peace Corps program while field representative Frank Kiehne was on campus holding interviews. That figure, Kiehne said, was "disappointing." He said 400 students at St. Louis University, and 90 percent of the graduating class at the University of Kansas City's dental school had attended speeches he made at those schools.
Since that time, interest in the Peace Corps has gradually increased at KU.
Clark Coan, secretary to the university committee on international affairs, and assistant dean of students, said recently that since March 1 he has had an average of five students a day inquire about the Peace Corps, and to pick up literature about the program.
Stiles said that based on the number showing up at the testing session Saturday, probably even more will show up next time. Part of the increase in interest he attributes to the establishment of a Peace Corps training center at KU.
THE KU TRAINING program will be an eight-week session directed by Thomas Gale, assistant professor of history. It will begin October 26.
and will emphasize training teachers for secondary education. The program will cover English and basic sciences, counseling and guidance, and five members will be trained to assist in university education at the University of Costa Rica in San Jose.
At least one of the Peace Corps applicants, fortunate enough to be able to take the test Saturday, plans to take part in the Costa Rican training program. Ruth Rogers, Kansas City, Mo., senior, hopes to go to Costa Rica if she is admitted to the Corps.
ASKED ABOUT THE test, she said. "It was more difficult than I had expected, but it wasn't too bad." Judith Woods, who is not currently enrolled at KU, said that she would like to go to South America,
"Ive had Spanish," she said, "and I would like to go to South America—but I'm not particular."
She is presently teaching elementary school, and plans to enroll at KU this summer to finish her degree in education.
In addition to monthly subsistance allowances, Peace Corps members will have $75 a month held for them by the U.S. government which will be paid to them in a lump sum of $1800 at the end of their two-year terms of service.
Crash Kills 4 West of Here
Four persons died—three of them College of Emporia students—as the result of a two-car head-on collision four miles west of Lawrence yesterday.
Dead were Elizabeth Crank, 20,
Topeka; William Wheatly, 45, Topeka;
Alfomila Awevilla, 20, San Francisco,
Calif., and Kenneth Thiele,
18, Wantaugh, N.Y.
Earnest Bruno, 22, of Forbes Air Force base near Topeka; his wife, Beverly Bruno, 21; Ruth Elizabeth Wheatly, 55, Topeka, and Bill Easterlin, 18, of Long Island, N.Y., were taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital, apparently in serious condition.
The Kansas Highway Patrol said the two cars met at the top of a hill when one of them was on the wrong side of the road.
Miss Crank, Easterlin, Miss Avecilla and Thiele were Emporia students.
Alone or With Crowd, He Will Walk in Protest
Alone or with a crowd of sympathizers, Charles McReynolds is going to march tomorrow afternoon in protest to nuclear testing.
"This is for concerned individuals—it's not an organization thing. I'm doing it as an individual. I'll walk by myself if nobody else comes." McReynolds, a Coffeyville graduate student, said.
HE SAID he will carry a sign protesting the resumption of nuclear testing by the United States. He plans to walk down Massachusetts Street, up 14th and along Jayhawk Boulevard.
"It is not crackpot. Nuclear testing is crackpot, and nuclear war is insane," he said.
He invited others who feel the same way to join the protest march. "Anyone who cares to walk along can meet me at 1:30 Tuesday at 7th and Massachusetts Streets."
McREYNOLDS SUMMED up his reasons for the demonstration this wav:
"The resumption of testing serves no useful purpose. It will only bring more testing by the Russians.
"A defensive posture based on nuclear weapons is not adequate because it cannot be used... If we are willing to use them this contradicts our own fundamental values of respect for human life.
"Nuclear war is no longer capable of protecting human life or human freedom. We clearly have no choice but to seek alternatives to nuclear war."