56th Year of Publication
VOL. I.\l
UNIVERSITY OF OKEOON, EUGENE, THURSDAY. MAY 5, 1955
NO. 124
To the Victor
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VAHEY AND IIINKSON
. .winner get* congratulation*
THE Call
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BUD I1INKSON
... winner gets the news
NOTE
For additional campus news,
see pa^e three.
Solicitation, Publicity
Policies inSU Changed
The Student Union Board ap
proved an addition to its policy
jon solicitations and publicity
| campaigns at a meeting Wednes
day.
The addition reads as follows:
All solicitations must be on a
j voluntary basis, with no personal
; pressure on the users of the Stu
dent Union.
Ten directorate committee
i liaii men were temporarily nom
inated pending approval by O.
Meredith Wilson, University
president.
Coffee Hour Forum
Ann Petterson was nominated
for Coffee Hour forum chairman.
Miss Petterson, a freshman,
stated that attendance is the big
gest problem at the coffee hours.
Nominated for Browsing room
chairman was Mollie Monroe, a
freshman. She felt that the whole
Student Union and especially the
Browsing room heads, need more
publicity.
Personnel
Marlis Claussen, a sophomore,
was nominated for personnel
committee chairman. She sug
gested that for better co-ordina
tion, a designated member from
the personnel committee should
attend all major meetings of
other directorate committees.
Darlene Leland, a freshman,
was nominated for Movie com
mittee chairman. Freshmen
should have better orientation
about the Student Union, she
said, and suggested that person
ally contacting them mighi cre
ate more enthusiasm.
Publicity
Marcia Mauncy was nominat
ed for Publicity committee
chairman. Miss Mauncy, a soph
omore, said that there could be
better co-ordination on the pub
licity committee to eliminate
overlapping of jobs.
Nominated for chairman of the
Music committee was Jeanne
Scales, a sophomore. She sug
gested that the chimes selections
be turned in at the beginning of
the semester next year, and that
the Barbershop Quartet be start
ed earlier to avoid a last-minute
rush.
Craig Clark, a junior, was
nominated for Recorded Music
committee chairman. He said
that the directorate committees
should work together more.
Public Relations
Karen Johnson, a freshman,
was nominated for Public Rela
tions Committee chairman. The
hospitality section of that com
mittee should participate in
every Student Union function
when needed, and the women on
hospitality should wear uniform
apparel, she said.
Art Gallery committee chair
man nominated was Paula Smith,
a freshman. A more diversified
program with exhibits up for
shorter periods of time should
make the committee members
and chairmen more enthusiastic,
she said.
Barbara Berwick, a freshman,
was nominated for Dance com
mittee chairman.
AGS Sweeps
Presidencies
By Bob Robinson
Emerald Aimlinf Newt Editor
AGS swept to an overwhelm
ing victory in Wednesday’s all
campus elections with presiden
tial candidate Bud Hinkson lead
ing the way with a decisive win
.over UIS aspirant, Sam Vahey.
Hinkson picked up a total of
1047 votes to triumph over Va
hey by 280 votes. The UIS can
didate had a total of 767 tallies.
AGS won all the class presi
dencies and collected six of the
nine senator-at-large spots.
Brandenfels Wins
Martin Brandenfels won over
Kip Wharton of UIS in the sen
ior class president race by a 285
100 margin. Representative can
didates Patty Fagan of AGS and
Sam Frear of UIS picked up 20
and five number one votes res
pectively in the race even though
they qualified for office auto
matically.
Doug Basham was an easy
winner over UlS's Carl Groth
for junior class president by a
span of 348-90. Sally Jo Greig
of AGS had 26 number one votes
and Charlsie Parker of UIS five
more as candidates for represen
tative.
The most decisive win of the
day was scored by AGS's Jim
Lynch in the sophomore class
president contest. Lynch snared
a total of 486 votes to Dale Ba
jema's 71.
Representative Contest
In the only representative race
with any contest involved Jim
Hilands of AGS and a nonpar
tisan Betty Herrman came out
; with the two spots over Sam
Whitney of UIS. In number one
votes Hilands had 36. Miss Herr
man 20 and Whitney 14. Hilands
got a necessary quota of 126 eas
ily on the transfer of Lynch's
votes and Miss Herrman did the
I
same when Hilands extra votea
were distributed.
AGS’s '‘three Bs,’‘ Darrel Britt
san, Brian Booth and Louie Blue
did as expected as they were the
first three to qualify for sena
tor-at-large posts. Brittsan, aft
er collecting nine number one
votes in the presidential elec
tion, reached a required quota of
Co-op Elects
Chuck Cewen won out in a
close race for the sophomore
membership on the Co-op board
of directors and Keith Barker
and Shirley McLean won the
junior board spots in Wednes
day's elections.
In by far the closest contest
of the whole election, Cowen
defeated Lee Blaesing by only
five votes, >87-282. The other
candidate, Joyce Jacobson, had
226 \otes.
In the race for the two jun
ior memberships Barker was
the top vote-getter with 378
and Miss McLean was second
with 312. Nancy Adams with
285, Linda Lundy with 271 and
Lynn Adelsperger with 205
were the other candidates.
163 quickly on the transfer of
' flinkson's surplus votes.
Booth, who had 20 number one
! votes, also went out on Hink
. son’s transfer.
Mitchrtmore Makes It
Blue reached the required quo
ta on the distribution of Vahey’s
surplus as did Chuck Mitchel
more of U1S. Blue had had 11
number one tallies and Mitchel
more 16.
After the first four qualifiers,
the competition became keen and
it was six transfers before Anne
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The Counting
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ASI’O ELECTION COMMITTEE worked over three hours Wed
ncsd&y counting the 1939 votes cast in this year’s student body
I election.