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Debate Sparks Campus Election
Timed debate and a timed question-and-answer period marked the political activity on campus last night.
Marshall Crowther, Lawrence second year law student, and Jim Cline, Rockford, Ill., junior, Vox candidates for student body president and vice-president, and Bob Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, and Kaye Whitaker, Wichita junior, the UP candidates, debated in Ellsworth Hall on request of some of the hall's residents.
Both presidential candidates discussed their overall concept of student government. Crowther spoke first: "I believe in effecting good student government by selecting qualified workers."
Persons should be selected on the basis of their qualifications, Crowther said, when they express the desire to help with student government.
The Vox platform "can be done with the help of the students," Crowther explained. He felt that finding the best qualified students to work in student government would help the campus to secure better student government.
"Many of the things we offer in our platforms are things which have been kicked around but no one took the bull by the horns;" Crowther explained while he was telling the audience about Vox's platform.
Stewart explained his concept of student government: "We want a more student-oriented student government."
Stewart said to achieve this goal of student orientation, "We should actively seek out interested and responsible individuals who are interested in student government, we should challenge these individuals and we should work with them."
Often, Stewart said, students are invited to fill out application blanks for positions in student government but no one encourages them. All Student Council representatives should try to encourage qualified individuals, he said.
"I think all of the planks in our platform are very ambitious programs. These planks are the challenge," Stewart explained.
A challenging program, Stewart feels, gives the students a feeling of responsibility.
When working with students in student government, Stewart felt that these students who have expressed interest in student government should be encouraged.
Miss Whitaker also discussed the proposed freshman leadership program: "This program tries to objectively involve students in what KU has to offer in leadership activities."
Jim Cline, Vox candidate for vice-president, explained the athletic seating plank in the Vox platform. The problem as it now exists Cline said: "Students are now sitting half way around the horseshoe."
Cline said that his party proposed that more stadium seating for the students be built.
During the question-and-answer period, it was asked what stand both of the candidates took on the civil rights issue here at KU.
Crowther said that he thought every individual should be considered on personal qualifications only.
Stewart said on the same question: "I think the president of the student body should encourage members of minority groups to participate in student government."
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Crowther. Lawrence second-year law student, replied to the same question by saying, "I think that as a politician and a campaigner, he (Stewart) is one of the persons that is working very hard. His campaign has been a vigorous one, and with good, vigorous campaigns, students take more interest."
STEWART SAID the basic issue of the campaign is "should student government undergo a change to a more comprehensive emphasis on the student in student government.
"I feel that many times our student government becomes involved in itself and there is a vacuum or void between the government and the student."
Close Race Predicted By Campus Politicians
With campus elections beginning tomorrow, both candidates for student body president are saying the outcome will be close.
After about three weeks of handshaking and campaign speeches, each is hesitant to predict his own victory, although both have planned victory parties.
MARSHALL CROWTHER, Vox candidate for student body president, said last night:
"I think that it will probably be close. If I can explain the things I stand for, I think the election can be won, and I hope I can present my side to the people."
Bob Stewart, UP candidate for student body president, said: "I am very confident it will be a close race. I believe it will be the best race the University Party has been in. If the amount of work we have put in is any indication, (of the outcome) we will come out very well."
When asked to size up his opponent, Stewart, Bartlesville, Okla., junior said: "He (Crowther) is a very good opponent, a mature and responsible individual. I don't know what experience he has had on the undergraduate level, but he is responsible."
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Crowther said the basic issue "... inviles the ideas that Vox has worked for in the past." If this government has done what the students want, the students will return it, Crowther said.
BOTH CANDIDATES said they did not expect their voting strength to come from any one section of the campus. Both said that during their campaigns, they have drawn strength from all over the campus.
Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission senior and UP general secretary, said recent switches in the party affiliations of living groups from Vox to UP, have significantly added to UP's strength.
Tom Bornholdt, Topeka senior and Vox Populi president, said of the three switches. "We have lost more than we picked up, but we had more of an advantage to start with. We are a strong party, we have a better chance of winning, but it will be close."
Stewart said the UP victory party will be at the Jayhawk Cafe, and Crowther said the Vox victory party will be at the Dine-A-Mite.
U.S. Goes to Rescue In Shattered Alaska
And weary citizens of the 49th state gained additional encouragement in a report that the list of fatalities resulting from the Good Friday earthquake was dwindling
ANCHORAGE, Alaska —(UPI)— An armada of planes, corps of rescue workers and Uncle Sam's bank-roll today went to the rescue of quake ravaged and economically shattered Alaska.
"The dead and presumed dead now total 105," said Donald Lowell, state director of civil defense. Unofficial figures earlier today were set at 153 and later dropped to 121.
ANOTHER 13 PERSONS were killed and 18 were missing and presumed dead as the result of tidal waves spawned by the quake which lashed California and Oregon coasts.
Lowell said he expected to have a complete list of the Alaska dead and presumed dead, with a city-by-city breakdown, at 9 a.m. AST (2 p.m. EST). He said 80 per cent of the victims on his list were victims of the tidal waves.
The constant fluctuation in the figures since the quake is because of ruptured communications.
Officials feared scores, perhaps hundreds, of Aleuts and Eskimos may have died in more desolate regions of the 1,500-mile disaster zone. They said the full toll may never be known.
TWO OTHER LATE developments caused concern in the litter
concern in the jittery area. The University of California at Berkeley reported that a "moderately strong" earthquake occurred early today off the western coast of Canada in the area between Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Island.
The quake was not felt in Anchorage, and university officials emphasized that the tremor was not an aftershock of the Alaska disaster. The Canadian quake, centered in the Pacific Ocean, was recorded at 1:05 a.m. PST (4:05 a.m. EST) and registered between 6 and $ \frac{6}{4} $ on the Richter scale.
The Coast Guard also announced that a potentially dangerous film of diesel and jet fuel fed by ruptured tanks at Seward had spread over parts of Cook Inlet. The situation was being watched carefully and all open flame was banned in the area.
Meanwhile, a stream of 15 giant C124 Globemaster Air Force transports were in a 48-hour shuttle from McChord Air Force Base, Wash., to Elmendorf Field with 235-000 pounds of vitally needed supplies for the ravaged state.
The supplies ranged from disposable diapers to candles, vaccines to portable generators.
Senator Morse Speaks in Hoch Tomorrow
Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon Democrat, who was once refused a position on KU law faculty, will speak here tomorrow.
Senator Morse, who now holds at least five academic and jurisprudence degrees, will speak on "Foreign Policy Under the New President." He will speak at Hoch auditorium at 8 p.m. and immediately following, a reception will be held in the South Lounge of the Kansas Union. Both events, which are sponsored by the All Student Council and Student Union Activities, are open to the public.
James K. Logan, Dean of the School of Law, said "In retrospect, we would be glad to have such a man" on the law school faculty. Morse, at time he made his application, was teaching law at the University of Oregon. That would have been in 1929 or 1930, judging from the dates in a Featured Speakers Series communique.
Two years later Morse became dean of Oregon's law school. He was thirty years old, the youngest law school dean in the country. Dean Logan said he was surprised at this, because Logan had thought himself to have been the youngest law school dean. Dean Logan was appointed at the age of thirty-one.
The information on the Morse application to the law school was found in Robert Smith's biography of Morse, "A Tiger in the Senate."
In 1954 Morse set a Senate record for the longest filibuster. He opposed placing Texas tidelands oil reserves under the control of that state and filibustered the issue non-stop for 22 hours, 26 minutes. The record still stands.
In 1962 Morse, in a Senate speech, vowed to cut foreign aid expenditures by $500 million, but failed to get Senate support. Speaking of foreign "supporting assistance" in a Senate speech Morse said, "It is the payroll on which we put nations all over the world that are unwilling to put their economic houses in order and are unwilling to live within their means."
Although Morse holds the Senate record for the longest non-stop filibuster, he has sponsored a rules bill to impose cloture on debates. His plan would allow debate to be shut off by a simple majority of those present.
This however, would have the condition that sixteen senators file a petition seven days after the debate had started.
Morse has contended European nations who are members of NATO
are not carrying their share of the financial burden.
"The poor-mouthing of European defense ministers that are too poor to meet their commitments to NATO
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comes in especially bad taste from those ministers who also want their nations to be nuclear powers," he said.
"They only convince me that one or the other of their contentions is completely fallacious," Morse said in a Senate speech last December.
When the Bobby Baker scandals became a matter for Senate investigation, Morse reminded senators that all of them had been helped by Baker. Speaking for himself, he said that he was "not one who regrets the services of a friend." "I'm not going to walk out just because a friend makes mistakes." Morse said
Baker, however, followed "the wise course of action under the circumstances" in resigning, Morse said.
Shortly thereafter, Morse sponsored legislation to improve congressional ethics.
Morse, who is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee's subcommittee on Latin America, has tried to amend aid bills to those
Morse has been opposed to aid for Pakistan because Pakistani were making deals with Communist China. He also has opposed aid to Sukarno of Indonesia. If it were not for U.S. aid Sukarno "would be in bed with the communists now," Morse told the Senate.
countries. His amendments would exclude those countries from foreign aid who do not adopt self-help reforms.
In the last session of Congress, Morse also tried to get aid bills amended to exclude countries with balance-of-payment problems and problems with their budget support.
Morse was invited to KU last December. Because Senate foreign aid appropriations were brought to the floor at that time, Morse cancelled his engagement here, Kenneth Van Blaricum, Meade freshman and publicity chairman of the series, said.
Bob Enberg, McPherson junior and chairman of the series said he had talked with Morse's secretary a few days ago to see if the civil rights debate would keep Morse from his speaking engagement this time. There has been no change in plans, Enberg said.
Morse began his career in politics under the progressive banner of the Republican "Fighting Bob" Lafolette.
Morse was elected senator in 1944. He became disillusioned with the prospects for liberalism in the Republican party, a communique from the series said, and ran as an Independent. In 1955 he joined the Democratic party.