Daily hansan
60th Year, No.119
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Friday, April 5, 1963
McCormack Wins By 521
All Schools To Have Vote On New Council
The Elections Committee has decided that all University schools will be represented on the All Student Council, regardless of the vote total in the districts.
The representation issue developed yesterday when it appeared that at least three University schools — journalism, pharmacy, and the graduate school — would not have the necessary 75 votes for a seat on the ASC.
THE ELECTIONS Committee's decision will entitle the schools to a seat on the council.
Bob Tiesen, McPherson junior who is the committee chairman, said all statements by him or other members of the committee which conflict with that decision are not valid.
Tieszen said the decision of the committee was based on four factors. One was what the committee termed a contradiction in the ASC Constitution.
The ASC Constitution requirement for an academic district to have a representative on the council is a minimum of 75 votes cast within that district.
IN SUCH CASES, two-thirds of the students enrolled in the school must cast ballots if the school is to be represented on the ASC.
The only exception to this rule applies to schools which do not have a total enrollment of more than 75 persons.
Another section of the ASC Constitution says each school shall have a representative. The schools involved in the dispute are entitled to one representative on the Council, according to the interpretation of the Committee.
The second reason for the Election Committee's decision is that the candidates ran without knowledge of the contradiction in the Constitution.
The third reason, Tieszen said, is that the subsection of the Constitution requiring a minimum number of votes has not been given precedence in past years.
THE FINAL REASON is that the subsection is "facetious," since it would require a school with 76 members to cast 75 votes, but, under the Constitution, a school with 75 members would need to cast only 50 ballots to have a representative.
In 1958, representatives of the Schools of Pharmacy and Journalism were denied voting rights on the Council because they failed to receive the required number of votes. The representatives were granted speaking privileges on the Council.
In the past, decisions concerning seating of representatives have apparently been left to the interpretation of the Elections Committee.
From 1959 to 1962, ASC representatives from the two schools were elected with the vote total in their districts ranging from 34 to 63. En-
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Weather
Generally fair and warmer weather was predicted today with afternoon highs ranging from 65 to 70 degrees with tonight's lows in the 35-45 degree bracket.
Weather forecasters said thin cloudiness probably would move out of the area by tomorrow, bringing a further increase in temperatures and the prospect of clear weather during the weekend.
JUBILANT OVER HIS party's sweep of the ASC elections, Reuben McCornack celebrates his first moments as Student Body President-elect.
Nails, Ashtrays Needed at Count
By Patti Behen
Smoke got a little thicker and nails a little shorter as the evening wore on at election headquarters last night in Bailey Hall.
The hours went slowly for the candidates, political party members and friends who waited just outside the statistics office where ballots were sorted and counted.
WHILE THOSE OUTSIDE WAITED, THE elections committee worked. Ballots had to be sorted before they could be counted, and for the first few hours the word was, "They haven't starting counting vet."
At the beginning of the long vigil, candidates were calm and quiet, but when the first results were posted, at 10:30 p.m., the excitement rose.
STUDENTS SAT ON THE FLOOR or leaned against the wall, smoking much, talking little, and waiting. Anyone who emerged from "the depths," as one student termed the counting room, was instantaneously faced with anxious faces and a barrage of questions.
Many candidates came prepared for the long wait and read or played bridge. Others simply waited.
Shortly after the polls were closed at 6 p.m., the telephone at election headquarters began to ring and someone would ask, "Do you know who got student body president yet?" Seven hours later, shortly after 1 a.m., the question was finally answered.
"It will be a sort of a 'post-election letdown'." he said.
About midnight students began to joke and complain. Bets were laid as to whether results for student body president would be out by 6 or 7 a.m.
Dave Stinson, Lawrence junior and newly elected treasurer of the senior class, said that after two weeks of hard work vacation was just the thing he needed.
Inside, the scene was just as tense. Members of the elections committee waited, while the IBM machines sorted and counted, sorted and counted. Results were shouted above the roar of the machines and the ringing of the telephone.
At the end of the evening, some were victorious, some defeated. Everybody was tired.
Reuben McCornack is the new student body president.
The Abilene junior and his running mate, John Underwood, Parsons junior. headed the Vox Populi ticket which won seven of the ten All Student Council academic district positions. Vox lost three seats by a total of 12 votes.
McCORNACK AND UNDERWOOD defeated the University Party candidates, Charles Whitman, Shawnee Mission junior, and Douglas Hall, Raytown, Mo., sophomore, by a margin of 521 votes.
Neither of the candidates was available for comment.
MOST OF THE contests for the ASC seats were close. Carolyn Power (Vox), Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, won the College women's position by a 15-vote margin over Carole Clancy (UP), Lawrence junior.
Vote Tabulations Appear On Page 8.
John Stuckey (Vox), Pittsburgh junior, had a 40-vote margin over Jay Roberts (UP), Des Moines, Iowa, junior, in the race for the College men's seat on the Council.
Terry Ball (UP), Atchison junior, edged Paula Mausolf (Vox), Hoisington senior, by three votes for the School of Pharmacy seat.
STEVE CLARK (UP), Coffeyville junior, won the School of Journalism seat. He defeated Jaclyn Stern (Vox), Clovis, N.M., junior, by six votes.
UP's only other victory came in the Graduate School race. Bob Steffen, Staten Island, N.Y., defeated Tonya Kurt (Vox), by three votes.
Marshall Crowther (Vox), Lawrence, won the Law School seat by 20 votes over Jim Lawing (UP), Okmulgee, Okla.
Janet Pepper (Vox), Newton junior, won the position from the School of Fine Arts. She had a margin of 80 votes over Jane Lutton (UP), Bartlesville, Okla., junior.
CHARLES PORTWOOD Vox), Shawnee Mission junior, defeated Don Pelow (UP), Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, by 15 votes for the School of Engineering and Architecture seat.
Larry Gamble (Vox), Pittsburg junior, won the School of Business seat over Lester Childers (UP), Muncie junior, by 32 votes.
In the School of Education, Barbara Edwards (Vox), Fort Leavenworth junior, edged Wendy Wilkerson (UP), Wichita junior, by 21 votes.
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Cockcroft Explains Nuclear Power Use
One of the greatest scientific achievements in recent years has been the application of nuclear power to the production of electricity, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist said here last night.
Sir John Cockercroft, master of Churchill College at Cambridge, spoke at the first Spencer Memorial Lecture. He said efforts to apply nuclear fission for producing electricity began in England in 1940.
"A SMALL GROUP demonstrated the theoretical feasibility of the atomic bomb and this had an important effect in late 1941 in influencing the decision of England to launch a large scale war effort," the British scientist said.
Cockcroft said this start was slow because of a "great diversion of physicists to the urgent problem of developing radar for the defense of Britain."
Additional progress was made in Canada beginning in 1843, he said. Work on the establishment of a heavy water reactor there was aided by "reinforcements of scientists who could by then be diverted from
radar," Cockcroft said.
AN AGREEMENT between President Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill, which re-established cooperation in military and civil aspects of atomic energy, also boosted the program, according to Cockcroft.
Cooperating with a metallurgical laboratory in Chicago directed by Arthur Compton, the developer of nuclear chain reaction, two heavy water reactors were built at Chalk River. Canada by 1946.
"The powerful heavy water research reactor at Chalk River played a major part in giving us our first (Continued on page 4).
Final Edition
This is the final edition of the Kansan until classes resume Monday, April 15. News items and announcements which are to appear in the April 15th edition should be turned in to the newsroom at Flint Hall before Sunday, April 14.