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Daily Hansan
61st Year, No. 118
Lawrence. Kansas
Friday, April 3, 1964
Election Special
Bob Stewart New President
THE VICTORY LOOK—Bob Stewart learns of UP's gaining control of the ASC in last night's election returns, while a jubilant crowd outside
the computation center in Bailey Hall receives word of Stewart's election as student body president. (Photos by Charlie Corcoran)
Long Wait for Results
Vigil in Bailey Ends Campaign
After weeks of campaigning, tired politicians strolled into the basement of Bailey Hall, took out cigarettes, selected a place along the wall to lean and settled back to await the outcome.
Party leaders gathered in small groups outside the Computation Center and tried to estimate the results of the election with party workers.
MARSHALL CROWTHER, VOX'S candidate waited for the last hour in a car in the parking lot behind Bailey. Bob Stewart, University Party's candidate, spent the evening in an off-campus apartment.
During this time, anxious party members gathered before the window where the returns were posted. When the winners of the school districts were posted, the hopes of UP politicians began to rise.
The counting started around 10 p.m. And it wasn't finished until 2:45 a.m. this morning.
ABOUT 1:30 A.M., UP had won six school districts and Vox three. Tension mounted as the already jubilant UP members waited for the final school district to be posted.
Finally the Elections Committee posted the winner of the college men's race. Carl Lindquist, (UP) Prairie Village junior, had defeated the Vox candidate by 26 votes, and excited and happy UP campaigners, wearing cowboy hats and campaign
Politicians from both parties took advantage of the lag to talk and renew friendships which had been temporarily forgotten during the rigors of the campaign.
UP people kept up the chanting and the singing for awhile, but then settled down and began to wonder if they would be able to top their victory by winning the position of student body president.
buttons reading "We try harder," shouted to the dejected Vox people at the other end of the hall:
"Wait till next spring and we'll get them all."
At 2:45 a.m., the talks came to an abrupt end.
Silence reigned when Charles Whitman, general secretary of UP, ascended the stairs from the counting room and announced that Bob Stewart was the new president of the student body.
THEN PANDEMONIUM BROKE LOOSE.
UP people slapped each other on the backs danced jigs, and took off for a horn-honking victory parade.
Gary Noland
After a few handshakes with jubilant UP leaders, the Vox members silently walked out through a side door. They met later to solemnly analyze the voting and start planning for next year's campaign.
Everyone, happy or unhappy with the results, looks forward to spring vacation.
v President UP Wins 8 to 3 In Council Race
By Gary Noland
Bob Stewart and Kaye Whitaker led the University Party to its biggest victory in the party's four-year history last night.
Stewart was elected president of the student body and Miss Whitaker was elected vice-president of the student body by a margin of 282 votes.
UP ALSO TOOK eight of the 11 All Student Council seats at stake.
Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, and Whitaker, Wichita junior, polled 2,399 votes in defeating the Vox Populi student body presidential and vice-presidential candidates, Marshall Crowther, Lawrence second year law student, and Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill., junior, who polled 2,117 votes.
The victory gives UP its first student body president and its first majority on the ASC.
In taking seven of the ten ASC school seats and a representative from the large women's residence halls district, UP gained a majority of seats (20) on the council. Vox Populi, which previously held a majority of 22 seats, dropped to 18. There are 39 representatives on the ASC at the present time.
REACHED EARLY THIS MORNING, Stewart said, "I have an awfully lot of people to be grateful to.
"This is by far the most tremendous campaign put on by either party. The large vote (4,695) shows that students are interested and care about the issues."
Dick King, Kansas City sophomore and chairman of the Elections Committee, said the vote was one of the largest turnouts for a spring election.
WINNING UP CANDIDATES are Carl Lindquist, Prairie Village junior, college men; Mary Ruth Lanning, Lawrence sophomore, college women; Nancy Johnson, Caldwell junior, education; Roy Miller, Topeka junior, journalism; Susan Lawrence, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore, fine arts; Ray Myers, Dodge City senior, engineering, and Hugh Taylor, Stoke-on-Trent, England, graduate.
Miller and Taylor are incumbents.
A tie between Miss Lawrence and the Vox candidate, Norma Sharp, Arkansas City junior, was broken by lot selection.
WINNING VOX CANDIDATES are John Benson, Prairie Village junior, business; Andy Graham, Lawrence second year, law, and Gary Gilstrap, Galena fourth year, pharmacy.
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Results of Vote
**STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT**
AND VICE-PRESIDENT:
Marshall Crowther, Jim
Cline (VOX) 2,117
Bob Stewart, Kaye Whitaker
(UP) 2,399
**COLEGE MEN:**
Robert G. Hicks (VOX) 734
Carl Lindquist (UP) 760
**COLLEGE WOMEN:**
Carol Jo Weber (VOX) 501
Mary Ruth Lanning (UP) 621
**JOURNALISM:**
Russ Corbitt (VOX) 26
Roy Miller (UP) 33
**LAW:**
Andy Graham (VOX) 70
Pete Robertson (UP) 33
**GRADUATE:**
Dick Clark (VOX) 57
Hugh Taylor (UP) 143
**FINE ARTS:**
Norma Sharp (VOX) 138
Susan Lawrence (UP) 138
(Miss Lawrence declared winner.)
**ENGINEERING:**
Ken Mathiasmeier (VOX) 246
Ray Myers (UP) 277
**EDUCATION:**
Margo VanAntwerp (VOX) 222
Nancy Johnson (UP) 268
**BUSINESS:**
John Benson (VOX) 165
Ken Robb (UP) 106
**PHARMACY:**
Gary Gilstrap (VOX) 44
George Brenner (UP) 25
Judith Lind * 11
Terry (Butch) Ball * 10
**REFERENDUM:**
For 3,587
Against 887
Void 204
LARGE WOMEN'S DORMS:
Beverley Nicks (VOX) ... 186
Jean Borlaug (UP) ... 200
SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS:
Secretary
Mary Kay Kennedy ... 763
Carol Stotts ... 460
Treasurer
William Engber ... 606
Arthur Spears ... 572
Vice-President
John Daniels ... 533
Daniel Wanamaker ... 626
President
John (Tonto) Mays ... 738
Gene LaFollette ... 511
JUNIOR CLASS OFFICERS:
Secretary
Carol Nichols ... 491
Kathlyn Hogue ... 552
Treasurer
Elaine Rinkel ... 507
Peggy Smith ... 497
Vice-President
Earle Wagner ... 518
Lester Kahler ... 463
President
Clay Blair ... 678
Alan Brightman ... 424
SOPHOMORE CLASS OFFICERS:
Secretary
Jean Burgardt ... 771
Diane Spickard ... 520
Treasurer
Elizabeth Roberts ... 698
Dean Eaton ... 554
Vice-President
William Stringer ... 670
Thomas Aiken ... 603
President
Donald Hunter ... 789
Robert (Pete) Smith ... 502