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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol.87,No.93
Friday, February 18, 1977
Leben is victor in close election; student voter turnout sets record
By SANDY DECHANT
Staff Reporters
and MARSHA WOOLERY Staff Reporter
Two weeks ago, Steve Leben, El Dorado junior, made two predictions. One that his sister-in-law's baby, due in early March, would be born on election day, and the other was that he would win the student body presidential election by 400 votes.
Last night, Steve became an uncle, and although his prediction of winning the presidency by 400 votes wasn't totally fulfilled, he did win it by 176 votes.
"It wasn't quite what we expected," said about 7 this morning, "but we'll take it."
In the highest turnover ever in a Student Senate election with a total of 4,298 votes, Leben and his running mate, Ralph Moore, lost to Mo., sophomore, received 1,436 votes.
ANOTHER TEAM, Sherri Grey,
Manhattan senior, and Don Green, Akleen
sophomore, received 1,280 votes; and the
team of Randy McKernan, Salina junior,
and Katie Rhoads, Leawood sophomore,
received 1,149 votes.
In the eight-hour wait between the start of vote tabulation and the finish, Leben said he might have to go further.
He said that as he listened to election returns over JKHK-FM, his coalition, Reflection, didn't appear to be winning very many Senate seats.
Elections for Senate seats mirrored the tight Presidential contest. Spectrum coalition won 28 seats, Reflection won 28 seats, both won 21 seats, and others won six seats.
"I CALLED my brother at 6:30 a.m. and
Early tallying shows students back whistle
KU students overwhelmingly want the whistle to resume blowing to signal the end of classes, according to early tabulations of the program. The KU student districted yesterday and Wednesday.
At 5 a.m. today, only the results from the Wescoe fourth-floor poll, which reflected the opinions of about 13 per cent of the total voters, showed that those voters, 47 were voting the whistle back.
ABOUT 60 per cent of the Wescoe voters said they would like to see Jayhawk Blvd. closed to all but special and emergency vehicles from 8 a.m., to 5 p.m.
Nearly half, or 114—of the 262 voters who had tried to apply for a scholarship, grant or loan from the University of Kansas said they had had problems qualifying for such
A total of 383 of the students favored a refreshment area in Waxen Library, while 428 opposed it; 107 opposed a refreshment area in West Campus Library, while 161 opposed it.
Leben, who spent the least money of the three presidential candidates on the campaign—about $850 compared with McKernan's $1,200 and Grey's 1,250--reiterated what he had said throughout his campaign. In cases, not money, would win the election.
The addition of a one-hour-credit course on KU resources and how to use them appealed to 410 of the voters, but 498 of them said it shouldn't be mandatory.
KEVIN FLYNN, Elections Committee chairman, said results of the questionnaire
would be used by the new Senate to issue charges to committees for the coming year. Because the questionnaires are time-consuming to tally, he predicted that all of their results wouldn't be known until next week.
told him I lost," Leben said. "And just now called my parents and told them that I was shocked out of my gourd—that we had won."
He said that the questionnaire would be used as evidence to the administration about student opinions but otherwise would have no direct effects. He added, "I wasn't scientific polling but merely designed to present general student opinion."
Leben said that not only were all his campers posters and other paraphermalia
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SOME POLL workers suspected that the number of questionnaires would outnumber the number of registered voters, Flynn said, and students had strong enough opinions about the whistle and other questionnaires. They also had extra questionnaires and stuff ballot boxes.
The resource class, the Watson refreshment area and the loan and scholarship problems will be concerns of the Senate Academic Affairs Committee, Flynn said. The Transportation Committee will handle the Jawbak Blvd. traffic question.
Because the questionnaires weren't numbered by the ballots, they couldn't
printed in black and white, but that each of the approximately 12,000 campaign promotions stated his opinions on issues.
"We are the only people who had issues,
no just bright campaign posters or T-shirts."
"WE SHOWED we were sincere about communication." Leben said.
Leben was the candidate with the least amount of experience as a senator. He said he had been in two Senate races and lost both of them—one by eight votes and the other by five votes. Lieben by four votes left and he stepped in, serving only half a year as a senator.
AS LEBEEN was talking, Tedde Tasheff, now the former student body president, and Steve Owens, former student body vice president, entered the room and congratulated him.
"I firmly believe that it's not how long you're there, but what you did." he said.
Tasheff said. "It's all yours now."
Owens, looking at Munyan, said, "You'll have to go over them and get my desk cleared," he added.
TASHEEFF AND Owens, who helped tabulate the presidential and vice presidential votes, said the race was close throughout the night and that it wasn't until
Grey and McKernan tried to explain their loss.
early morning that Leben picked up enough votes "here and there" to win.
"I just want to say that Steve Leben ran an admirable campaign in terms of fairness and integrity," said candidate. Surrounded by loyal campignaters at the front desk of Miller Scholarship Hall at 7 this morning, she had just called to congratulate Leben and offer her scholarship.
"It was worth it," she said of her campaign for student body president. "The
Nether she nor her running mate, Green,
could say why they lost.
"You think of a lot of things you could have done," she said, "but you only have x amount of dollars to do x amount of things and you just can't cover all aspects."
Both she and Randy McKernan, defeated avanti candidates, said the votes were close.
Sitting on the bottom stairs inside the Sigma Nu fraternity house, McKernan cradled a cup of coffee as the sun rose this morning.
"I thought this was the biggest flasque I've ever seen," he said. "It wouldn't have been bed—it wouldn't have been half as bad—to have lost at 12 last night."
Looking at the remnants of his coalition, which had begun partying at 10 p.m., McKernan said, "I met a lot of people and part was worthwhile, but the rest was."
Mkernan said several things had caused him to lose the election.
"Part of it was the increased voter turnout, part of it was running out of ballots at some of the polls, and part of it . . . well, I just don't know." he said.
See LEBEN page five
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Presidential call
Newly elected Student Body President Steve Leben phoned his parents about 7 this morning shortly after learning he had been elected. Leben also called Sherri Grey and said she was very pleased with the outcome.
Architect says law school to be done on time
Construction problems aren't responsible for the delay in opening the new School of Law building, Louis Krueger, state architect, said yesterday.
Kruger contradicted Martin Dickinson, dean of the School of Law, who told A. Feb. 4
A few ditchdash supporters from the Avanti Coalition were still waiting at 4 this morning for the final vote tells in yesterday's
All for naught
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
School of Law faculty-student meeting that the building wouldn't be open for classes until January 1978. It officially had been scheduled to open this fall.
Student Senate elections. The Avanti coalition gathered at the Sigma Nu fraternity.
ACCORDING TO 10 minutes of the meeting, Dickinson "indicated that, because of the continuing failure of the subcontractor to deliver the pre-cast concrete blocks, and other difficulties, it is now virtually certain that we will begin building the new building until January of 1978."
But Kruger said, "The concrete blocks aren't going to delay the building. We'll be here."
"DEAN DICKINSON obviously has a misconception about the building. I don't know where he's getting information — maybe he has a communication problem."
Dickinson was contacted by telephone last night. Asked to confirm or deny the accuracy of the Feb. 4 minutes, he said, "I have no comment."
Asked to respond to Krueger, Dickinson said, "I have nothing more to say on the
Francis Heller, professor of law, attended the meeting. He said that the minutes were correct.
Heller said, "The Dean informed us the chances were virally nothing—that they had not been," he added.
Kruger said Casson Co. had been denied a request for extending its May 23 deadline, but the architects have have the building completed. The request was made in Topeka at a F. 3 meeting of representatives from Casson, the architects of Regents and the state architect's office.
OTHER FACULTY members who attended the meeting, who asked not to be identified, also confirmed the accuracy of the minutes.
Kruger, who attended the meeting, said, "We explained to the company in very precise words there wouldn't be a delay. We explained it completely and told them (Casson) that a delay would be very serious."
By state law, each day after May 23 that the building isn't finished will cost the Casualty Co. $10 million.
SPOKEMEN FOR Casson have declined comment on whether the building will be finished on time. They also have refused to release details and they measured the company to meet its deadline.
The Feb. 4 minutes, however, say Dickinson 'reported that Chancellor (Archie) Dykes is lending every possible support to efforts to induce the contractor to take the steps necessary in order to complete the building on time."
Kruger said Casson had taken the steps to which Dickinson alluded.
"They've put men out there," he said. "They've made every effort. They've been making every effort."
Kruger said that even if Cannon didn't meet its deadlines "the building would be destroyed."
That's plenty of time for them to move from Green, "he said. 'I don't understand.'"
CONSTRUCTION ON the building, which replaces Green Hall, began in March 1975. It will cost $40 million.
Law's 140,000+volume library and have room for 30,000 more volumes.
Igal Rodenko, pacifist and civil rights activist, was a draft resister when Vietnam fell.
Rodenkow, who visited the University of Kansas Wednesday and yesterday, served 20 months in federal prison for refusing to fight in World War II. Rodenkow, a Jew born in America, had to rationalize his decision not to fight against Hitler.
"My brain said fight but fight my conscience couldn't aim a gun," he said. "I couldn't believe that the enemy of my friend is my enemy."
During Rodeokin's two-day visit, sponsored by the United Ministries Center, 128 Oread Abbey he met with religion, culture and peace groups, preached his favorite subject—noviolence.
The building also will include a courtroom that doubles as a classroom, individual study stations, student lockers, eight-station rooms and space for the Legal Society.
Rodenko, 60, resembles a freakish Merlin the Magician. His purple jeans, green socks and six-inch gray beard make him seem like an easy-going statement—there are options to normality.
Options to normality explained by pacifist
Draft resiliers don't need to defend their position,oodenkoo, sitting in the front.
A major advantage of the new building is that its 95,000 square feet of floor space will accommodate an enrollment of 560 students, 104 more students than last semester's enrollment. Green Hall was designed to house 100 students.
Rodenkent his said jailhings helped to prove that he means what he says.
"Probably 50 per cent of the people in America have relatives who came to the United States to avoid military service," he said. "They drafts disserted 'a shared experience.'"
"But it's too bad we have to prove our authenticity by suffering," he said.
He also said draft resisters couldn't be called cowords. "I'm still a fighter; it'is just that the traditional ways of battling are counterproductive," he said.
The American civil rights movement helped make Americans aware that racism is still a major problem.
warned that government legislation could do only so much to solve that problem.
Roodenko n's press release bills him as a man who has been arrested more than 10 times. In 1874, he was jailed for his part in the revolt that overturned social inequality (CORE) race ride in the South.
"They (government) can't give equality," he said. "If they could give it, they can take it back. That's not equality, government. Government can only make it easier."
Roodenko said that legislation often could lead to a nation of citizens instead of citizens and that more creative ways were needed to help the disadvantaged. Legislation can make a difference but it's not the only answer, he said.
If the draft was reinstated, he said, "the military won't know what hit them. People will just ignore it and the government will find it won't pay to go after them."
Roodenko called President Jimmy Carter's pardon of draft resisters an upper-middle-class gesture. America didn't learn that he was wrong, but he said, and some people learned nothing.
A vegetarian for the last "last 22 years and two weeks," Roedken talked as he drank a beer and ate a cheese sandwich at his restaurant. Crumbs of cheese stuck in his beard.
He objected to capital punishment, which he said made sense only in society. Society is better off without some people, he said, but that doesn't mean he decides who should live and who shouldn't.
"Capital punishment is a confession by
knowing you don't know to do with
socialistic behavior."
Rodenko is a former chairman of the War Resisters League and is now on the editorial board of WIN magazine, an underground weekly. His current speaking tour will take him all over the United States in the next four months.
There is potential for violence and non-violence, and the violence tend to make certain traits be random.
And, he said, "speaking tours and effective as anything else in doing that."