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METHOD OF BALLOTP COUNT EXPLAINED SUMMARY OF ASUO ELECTION TALLY SHEET Col. 12345G78 Hall .359 155 155 155 155 155 155 155 Benson .240 340 155 155 155 155 155 155 Schaupp 52 06 105 111 112 114 122 155 Silver . 38 129 138 138 144 145 153 186 Battleson . 32 52 65 66 69 72 86 0 Turner . 28 66 79 82 83 83 89 100 Igoe . 8 30 35 38 40 43 0 0 Dalton . 5899 10 000 Pease . 4 12 13 14 0 0 0 0 Fort . 2 10 14 0 0 0 0 0 Exhausted . 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 17 Total valid .768 768 768 768 768 768 768 768 Invalid . 22222222 Total cast .770 770 770 770 770 770 770 770 By ED ROBBINS The ballots were sorted into piles according- to first choices larked. Two incorrectly marked ballots were thrown out as ivalid. The total number of ballots cast was 770, found by lidding all the first places and including the two invalid ones. This total was divided by five, one more than the number of Bffices to fill, and one was added to the quotient. This gave a (uota of 155, or the lowest number of first choicest which could rie received by four, and not more than four, of the candidates. As can be seen in the first col in, Barney Hall received 359 Irst choices, Benson 240, Schaupp etc. Since both Hall and Ben in had more than the required i5 votes, they were declared lected to the council. The 204 ballots that Hall re lived above his quota of 155 rere declared to be surplus ballots, id were draw from his 359 by lot. These were sorted into piles Recording to their second places marked, disregarding all choices ifior Benson who was already elect t«*d. These ballots were distributed the candidates not yet elected, d the results recorded in col mn two. I This shows, for example, that ilver received 91 second places of [all’s surplus ballots, raising his stal from 38 to 129. Battleson re eived 30 votes on this transfer, ringing her total to 52, and so on. Then the 85 surplus ballots from Jenson were drawn from his pile y lot, and distributed according to second places. Again, any sec ond choices for Hall were disre garded as he was elected. This brought all totals to the figures shown in column three. By sub tracting the figures in column three from those in colmun two the number of Benson’s surplus lots that went to each candidate can be determined. On the next step the counting board made a minor error. Instead of declaring Dalton, the lowest continuing candidate in column three, defeated, Fort, who had the lowest number of first place bal lots, was declared beaten. Dalton was not declared defeated until two transfers after he should have been, but a quick check made when the error was discovered proved that this had no effect on the out come as all three of the lowest candidates were defeated anyway. All of Fort's 14 ballots were now given to the continuing unelected candidates according to the next choices. The ballots marked for Fort in first place were moved to PREXY HALL IS ! CLAD IN SHORTS! ! By STAN HOBSON Barney Hall’s pulse rate was early back to normal again yes irday when confronted in his >om. Clad only in shorts and un ershirt, he shined his shoes and mtinuecl dressing while he was lied with questions. The clean-cut, good looking eung fellow didn’t hesitate to ad lit that he was “plenty surprised” hen final results of the ASUO ection were announced, boosting Lm into the job of student body resident. He was rather non-committal in igard' to his plans for the coming ;ar. Not that he didn’t come into le job with his eyes wide open— lained, “It's a little early for lained, “It’s a little early to for :e to talk about next year—any ay, I'm only a part of the exe itive committee.” He praised the roportional representation sys im as a great improvement over •pe previous system. Set Frosh Record ■ Hall's victory was doubly im iressive, being the first time in years that an independent stu dent has won this honor. Barney jjkngs his hat in Sigma hall. He H a pre-med major and will grad Jfete next spring, after which he ■ans to attend the Oregon medi cal school in Portland, his home town. A graduate of Grant high, he spent three of his prep years at Prineville high in eastern Oregon. His favorite sport was track. “You don’t need to mention that, though,” he remarked, also neg lecting to mention that he set a frosh 440-dash record for Hayward field a couple of years back. Possessed with an abundant sup ply of energy, Barney is one of those kind of fellows that gets things done. At the all-campus luncheon yesterday he was tapped by Friars, senior honorary. He also is a member of Asklepiads and the Order of the Mace. Besides, president of the inter-dorm coun cil. Oregon Spirit Improved By this time Barney was putting the finishing touches on his tie, struggling to get it straight. “Ore gon spirit? Y"es, it could stand im proving.” He gave the Emerald a pat on the back for its work this year, saying that the staff deserves a lot of credit. This wound up the interview as Barney Hall was at last sur runded by a gleaming tuxedo and rea.dy to go forth to a banquet. And any banquet would be im proved by his presence. m W INDIES' DAY today Ilif m y/\ SHUCK'S! AND / HAD MS HEART \ Sf-T ONS££iNt> 7H£ GAME... the second choice, and those that 1 had been transferred from Hall ! and Benson to Fort were given to i the candidates marked third choice, i The result of this transfer is shown in column four. As no one had yet reached a total of 155, another candidate had , to be declared defeated. The same j error referred to previously was '■ still carried out when Pease was I declared defeated, because he had the lowest number of first place j votes, instead of Dalton, the low est candidate in column four. The transfer of Pease’s ballots to their next choices resulted as is shown in column five. Still no cadidate had his quota, and Dalton was declared defeated, correcting the mistake mentioned above. The ballots were again transferred to their next | preference, results per colmun six, ■ and one ballot which showed no further choices was marked “ex hausted.” No candidates having their ' quota, Clare Igoe was declared de feated, and her votes transferred.' The results in column seven show - that Silver was two short of his quota, and that he was the closest. Gladys Battleson, the lowest candidates as shown in column seven, was declared defeated. The transfer of her ballots to their next choices placed Silver over his quota, and gave Frances Schaupp her quota exactly. Hall, Benson, Silver, and Miss Schaupp were declared elected to the executive council of the associ ated students. They were ranked according to the number of first place ballots they had received, as shown in column 1. BIG RALLY TAKES (Continued from fane six) tallies in the third when Red O’ Connell hit for a circuit to center with Cliff Baxter on base. Andy Hurney got on base to open Oregon’s big seventh inning spree when O’Connell at third came up with a miscue. Gale Smith singled to drive Hurney home from second. Ralph Amato rapped out a one-base hit, and Don Thomas, Duck catcher, drew a walk. LeRoy Mattingly, hitting for the firs.t | time, then smacked one for two bases into centerfield clearing the sacks. Ford Mullen’s fifth hit of the game drove Mattingly apd Nicholr son. ,wtio hfd ,s/ngiedj hopie • foy j Oregon’s final runs of the game. ‘ It was 12 to 7 for the Webfoots, and Mattingly limited the Mon Oreg. Golf Team Wins From WSC The six golfing Ducks of Oregon bowled over one more obstacle in their road to a second unofficial dual-meet championship Friday when they overwhelmed a six-man Washington State team on the Eu gene country club course. The Ducks won 22 to 5, to make it seven straight for the season. Walt Cline, Oregon No. 2, was medalist with a par 72 round in the afternoon singles, to win three points from Fred Campbell. Three Score Shutouts Carl Gill, No. 1 and only letter man on the Cougar team, won the only singles match for Washington State when he shot a 75 to drop Sid Milligan, 2 to 1. Three Ducks besides Cline scored shutout victories in singles matches. They were Dave Hamley, Doug Ramsey, and Bill Stockton, No. <1, No. 5, and No. 6. Bill Wat son, No. 3, dropped half a point to Lcland Lugar. Oregon plays Washington State only once in dual meet competition this season, but the Webfoots will vie against the Cougars again in the northern division conference meet in Seattle at the end of the season. Portland Match Canceled Today's scheduled dual match with Portland university has been canceled, so the Webfoot team rests until next Thursday, when they are slated to meet College of Puget Sound here in a return match. Results, singles: Oregon (22) Wash. State (5) Milligan, 1 . Gill, 2 Cline, 3.Campbell, 0 Watson, 2'. . Lugar, Hamley, 3 . Kalitowski.O Ramsey, 3 . Gladson, 0 Stockton, 3 . Foley, 0 Doubles: Milligan-Hamlcy 3, Gill-Campbell 0; Cline-Stockton Lugar-Kalitowski 2'i; Watson Ramsey 3, Gladson-Foley 0. mouth boys to two hits and a lone run in the final two innings to win. Catcher Lloyd Lewis got a four ply in the seventh off Mattingly tjr drive in two mates. Lewis’ hit was a hard drive to left field, and went for four bases when Amato’s relay to the infield went wide. Washington Downs DSC Outfit, 11-2 Northern Division Standings Washingtons second pla.o Husky baseball team led all the way to defeat Oregon State, 11 to 2, in a. northern division game at Corvallis yesterday. The team t meet again this afternoon. Chet Johnson, Washington hurJ er, allowed Oregon State but seven scattered hits. The Huskies tallied three times in the third inning, and trotted over three more in the fourth to increase their margin. Taka mi Hits Homer Ed Loverieh, Washington bas ketball star, led his team's hitting attack with three hits in five trips up. Tak'in.i, Orange outfielder, led his mates in hitting, being respon sible for both Beaver runs. He socked a home run in the second inning, and in the fourth chapter doubled to drive in Ore gon State's final tally. Score: R H 3 Washington . 11 12 2 Oregon State . 2 7 i Batteries: Johnson and Marlowe. Houdek and Orell. Wash. State Washington Oregon. Oregon State . Idaho . W L, Pet. 7 1 .61 j 4 1 .601) 4 2 .606 i 1 6 .lt>d 1 7 ,lih Ducks Run At Pullman Conceded no chance in the world to win, Oregon's track and field squad today takes the field at Pull man in an endeavor to get their first dual meet win of the year at the expense of Washington Statet‘1 Cougars. With two of his best performers home on th- shelf with injuries and with a squad composed main ly of sophomores and untried men, Coach Bill Hayward yesterday said that he would be well satis fied if bis team took 45 points. Cougars Have Same Team j Squeak Lloyd, who injured hi3 ankle bread-jumping at Seattle last week, and Elmer Koskelio, whose javelin throwing arm went lame on him, are the two veteran:* who are at home enjoying junior weekend activities. Last year the Webfoots squeezed out a 69's to 61 a victory over the powerful Cougars who are bade this year with practically the same squad while Hayward's has been sadly depleted by graduation and injuries. Prepare for OSO According to Hayward the only probable winners today will be George Varoff, pole vault; Bill Foskett, shot put; Dutch Holland, discus; Sam McGaughey, mile amT Ken Miller, half mile. Next week the Ducks will un dertake intensive preparations for the Oregon State meet which will be held on Hayward field Satur day, May 15. This will be the only dual meet to be run at home this season. FEES DUE May 10 is the last day for the payment cf non-resident fees and student body fees without pen alty. No extension of time will be granted. Twenty-five cents a day will i be charged for late payment, and the student will lie suspend ed for failure to pay after one week, , •-*- \ Still wondering whether the sophomores or freshmen won that innertube race yesterday. What race ?