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LAWRENCE. KANSAS
59th Year, No. 121
Thursday, April 19, 1962
Court Injunction May Halt ASC Election
By Dennis Bowers
A law student here may file a petition in the student court for an injunction to halt next week's general ASC elections.
Robert Serra, Frontenac first year law student and independent ASC candidate in that school, may seek the injunction because the ASC elections committee has decided to exclude his name from the elections ballot.
Serra received a call about 8 last night from a woman on the elections committee. She told him the committee had decided to omit his name from the ballot in the general election because he had not turned in his petition on time.
She said Melvin Saferstein, St. Joseph graduate student and head of the election committee, would take the ballots to Topeka at 7:30 (this morning) to get them printed.
The results of the committee action prompted members of the Student Court to make arrangements for an injunction to halt the printing of the ballots. But the court never ordered the injunction because Student Body President Max Eberhart told a justice of the court that he would have the elections committee replace Serra's name on the ballot.
SERRA SAID that Saferstein had told him on several occasions that, even though he had turned his petition in a day late (due to his being hospitalized the day the petitions
Big Debate Is Grand Fizzle
They were questioned by 10 people at their debate in Templin Hall.
Jerry Dickson, Newton junior and one of the All Student Body presidential candidates leaned back in chair last night as his opponent, Gerald (Kep) Kepner, Wichita junior, gestured with his right index finger.
The two candidates had planned to give speeches and then debate, but decided to answer questions from the audience because of the small turnout.
Questioning was interrupted several times by switchboard operators who were paging people over the loud speaker in the dining room.
Dickson continually clicked his retractable ball-pointer pen. Kepner periodically tried to loosen his collar with his right index finger.
were due) his name would be on the ballot. Serra said that the notification came as a complete surprise to him.
Serra said Saferstein told him the committee's action was spurred by objections from Vox officials because of Serra's technical disqualification.
Saferstein said this morning that the only reason for the committee deciding to scratch Serra's name from the ballot was because he did not meet the deadline. (The time set by Saferstein was 5 p.m. March 28. Serra, because he was in the hospital, did not turn in his ballot until the morning of March 29.)
After last night's call, Serra talked to a justice of the student court and it was decided that the court could hold an emergency session of three justices to issue an injunction to halt the printing of the ballots today.
Serra agreed that if his name would be added to the ballot by the election committee, he would drop his complaint.
THE JUSTICE, after trying unsuccessfully to reach the elections committee head, decided to call Max Eberhart, Great Bend senior and student president, in hopes that Eberhart would call Saferstein and somehow talk him into replacing Serra's name on the ballot.
Eberhart said that he would check with Saferstein and call back. Later he called the justice and said that he had been unable to reach Saferstein. But he said he might be able to restore Serra's name to the ballot so as not to "make a big thing out of this."
WHEN REACHED by this reporter later, Saferstein said that the elections committee "made a decision on what I think are valid grounds and I will go to court if necessary to defend the committee's decision."
Asked if anything except a revote of the committee could change the decision to remove Serra's name
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from the ballot, Saferstein said, "No,
I don't think they can go over my
head. I don't care what Max thinks."
This morning, Eberhart said in a telephone interview, "Serra is not going to be put on the ballot" and that if Serra wishes to try for a court injunction to stop election proceedings that he can go ahead.
Weather
"I have talked to Saferstein," Eberhart said this morning, "and he told me that the election committee had received no decisive pressure from Vox members to omit Serra's name and that he was certain he had a concrete case against Serra.
Prof. Hits U.S. Nuclear Policy
By Dennis Branstiter
Arnold A. Strassenburg, associate professor of physics, last night made a scathing attack on United States attitudes and policies on nuclear testing and war.
He spoke at the meeting of the KU chapter of the Student Peace Union.
DISCUSSING THE resumption of nuclear testing by the United States, he said, "This is going to create incredibly bad foreign relations for us. The U.S. press shows all our moves as good and all Russian moves as bad, but foreigners do not read our newspapers."
He said resumption of nuclear testing by the United States would prove to the world "that we are every bit as bestial as they (the Russians) are.
"How can we expect people to believe that we have concern for human values if we ignore them (their pleas against resumption of tests)?" he asked.
He said testing may be used not to catch the Russians but to show them that we would not be afraid to use
1129 Vote As Vox UP Hold Primary
Students with University Party cards cast 725 votes while Vox Populi Party card bearers cast 404 votes.
UP used the primaries to make the final decision on the candidate it is going to run for vice president of the student body, and ASC representatives from College women and the Schools of Education, and Engineering.
The primary elections for All Student Council seats and president and vice president of the Student Body saw 1129 KU students casting ballots Tuesday and Wednesday.
Vox Populi leaders explained that they selected their candidates in a closed primary of party leaders and were running candidates in this week's primaries simply to judge their voting strength in some of the schools.
The final results of all the primaries are:
**STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT**
Gerald (Kep) Kepner (UP) ... 694
Jerry Dickson (Vox) ... 404
**STUDENT BODY VICE PRES.**
George Hahm (Vox) ... 404
Tom Hardy (UP) ... 390
*Pat Wilson (UP) ... 325
**COLLEGE MEN**
Blaine King (UP) ... 149
Greg Turner (Vox) ... 114
**COLLEGE WOMEN**
Kay Cash (UP) ... 197
Jan Huffman (Vox) ... 138
*Sandy Bornholdt (UP) ... 126
*Phyllis Brown (UP) ... 67
**EDUCATION**
Judy Fitts (Vox) ... 55
Constance Fry (UP) ... 55
*John Jones (UP) ... 35
**ENGINEERING**
Mike Swink (UP) ... 51
Dick Jones (Vox) ... 27
*Gerald Memming (UP) ... 21
FINE ARTS
Connie Hines (UP) ... 37
Anne Peddie (Vox) ... 40
BUSINESS
Larry Borchering (Vox) ... 16
Mel Bloomfield (UP) ... 15
JOURNALISM
Ben Marshall (UP) ... 7
Dennis Branstiter (Vox) ... 6
GRADUATE
Larry Jones (UP) ... 5
Rab Malik (Vox) ... 2
LAW
Leo Kelly (Vox) ... 2
Write In ... 2
INACY
Pennyis Wertzberger (UP) ... 3
Larry Milne (Vox) ... 2
eliving
all our military might in a showdown.
"I ABHOR THIS CONCEPT or trying to prove to other people that we are just as insensitive to human values as the Russians," he said.
He said professional military men in
the US may want to fight another world.
"The fact that they are military people suggests that war is not reugnant to them," he said. "We have been in the cold war so long that professional military men have grown too powerful."
Prof. Strassenburg said the U.S. public may be nearing agreement with the military men on the idea of nuclear war. They are encouraged by many current estimates of the human survival rate in case of a nuclear attack on the United States that have ranged above 90 per cent, he said.
"I suggest that these figures are very optimistic," he said. "Even if they were true, it still isn't worth it."
After a nuclear war the first government to emerge, "until it got back on its feet, would be the worst kind of military government," he said.
PROF. STRASSENBURG also attacked the determent philosophy of military might. He described "credibility" as an extremely important aspect of this philosophy.
"It doesn't matter so much what you've got and what you will do" as what the enemy thinks you have and will do. Russia must be convinced that we are "just big—and just as bad—as they are . . . that we are willing to engage in any kind of atrocity they are."
Prof. Strassenbung said attempts at bilateral disarmament are closer to a solution of the world's nuclear war than is Civil Defense.
HE SAID THE UNITED STATES is close to agreement in bilateral disarmament negotiations now. The only remaining stumbling block is the inspection system.
"It's just very difficult for me to conceive why we let ourselves get hung up over this point," he said. "Their proposals do not say they won't accept inspection."
He said the only difference is that the United States wants continuous unlimited inspection during the disarmament procedure and Russia wants inspection to follow each step of disarmament.
Following Prof. Strassenburg's speech, the group decided to circulate a petition against the resumption of nuclear tests by the United States. The petition will be mailed to President Kennedy Saturday.
At its next meeting the SPU will discuss the possibility of a campus demonstration against the resumption of nuclear tests by the United States. The meeting will be held April 25, the date now set for the resumption of tests, unless tests are resumed before then. If tests are resumed at an earlier date the SPU will meet the night of the first day of testing.
Personalities in Today's News-
BOB SERRA—Law student who has been forbidden to run for a seat on the ASC.
MEL SAFERSTEIN—Upholds the election committee decision not to let Serra run.
LOIS RHODUS—Pi Beta Phi who will reign over the 1962 Kansas Relays tomorrow and Saturday.
ARNOLD STRASSENBURG — Attacks U.S. policies concerning nuclear testing and war.