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EMERALD
Vol. LXVIII
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, MONDAY, MAY 26. 1069
No. 110
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Morgan, Sweek disqualifications not warranted'
Elections court decides
rule violation not serious'
By RANDY BARBANO
Of the Emerald
After 12 hours of deliberation
Friday, the Elections Court rec
ommended that the violations
of the ASUO Election rules
commited by President and
Vice-President Kip Morgan and
Sonja Sweek do “not warrant
disqualification” nor “a n e w
election.”
The decision, which came aft
er four hours of testimony and
an all night deliberation ses
sion, concluded that Morgan
and Miss Sweek violated the
election rules on three counts.
General election votes,
final tabulations don't tally
i>y .ini DLdiiixiLLL
Of the Emerald
The numbers don’t add up.
Although 3,608 people voted in the recent elec
tion, a total of 3,879 votes were included in the
final tabulations for ASUO living organization
senators.
These extra votes apparently entered the sys
tem because ballots which included votes for
more than one of the three represented areas
(off-campus, dormitory and Greek) were not in
validated.
According to former ASUO Vice-President Dan
Allison, “no system of checks now exists” and
the computer that is used to calculate the elec
tion results “never can be” programmed to elim-i
nate the ballots that include votes in more than
one area.
However, Paul Weber, Lane County Data Proc
essing manager, says such a program can be de
veloped and that when created their computer
“could do it very easily.”
Weber added that the state elections computer
control program could not do the job, but that
past ASUO administrative assistant Bill Muir,
who accepted the program “apparently decided
that it was adequate.”
He further suggested that since the 271 over
vote could make a difference in five of the eight
elections involved, the ballots either be counted
by hand or a suitable program be developed. He
added that the recount is not as difficult as it
sounds, because the ballots “are the same as
paper ballots” and are like those which were
recounted by hand in the contested Morse-Pack
wood senate race.
The “overvote” phenomenon becomes apparent
when examining the distribution of the votes.
When taking any one off-campus position-, the
Greek position and the contested dormitory posi
tion, the totals should add up to be less than
or equal to the number of people that voted. In
every case the number is greater than the num
ber of people that voted:
Votes in dormitory election 1177
Greek election . 896
Subtotal . 2073
Off campus position No. 17 .... 1636 3709
The total of 3879 votes cast is 271 more than
there were ballots cast. This is the largest dis
crepancy found in the totals.
However, the number of votes greater than the
number of actual ballots is not an actual indica
tor of how many people voted in more than one
area and would thus be invalidated.
The counting of votes that should not have
been counted was not the only trouble apparent
in the senatorial election.
There also existed an illegal crossover vote,
as there was no way to prevent students from one
area from casting their ballots in another living
area.
This crossover vote allows a representative
from one area to be elected by votes of students
living in a completely different area.
Also discovered after the election, according
to Allison, were 26 ballots which had not been
punched in the voting machines. These were not
in sufficient numbers to affect any of the elec
tions, or they would have been re-examined and
possibly included in the totals, he said.
Total votes
Position No. 19
Position No. 21
Position No. 22
Position No. 23
Position No. 24
1629 3702
1711 3784
1561 3634
1806 3879
1767 3840
The court reported that it did
not feel these charges were seri
ous enough to invalidate the
election and recommended that
no further action be taken.
According to B o b Winger,
president of the ASUO Senate,
the Senate will not meet to dis
cuss further action on the
charges unless one of the can
didates requested it. Winger
said he did not think any candi
date would pursue any further
action.
The court announced its rec
ommendation Saturday morn
ing, after studying the case
since 8 p.m. Friday night. The
court was made up of Steve
Milam, chairman, Dan Allison,
Kevin McDonald and Tom
Roots.
The court concluded that the
two ofTiccrs w ere guilty on
three counts of violating the
election rules. In each case the
violation was because the can
didates failed to report dona
tions along with their report of
expenditures.
As explained by Larry Moore,
one of the counsels for defense,
"Due to some confusion and be
cause no complaint was lodged
earlier, there was an oversight.”
A list of the oversighted dona
tions was given to the board
before the hearing.
Because no list of donations
was submitted by the deadline,
which is election day, the presi
dent and vice-president w'ere
found guilty of failing to report
expenses on .three accounts.
They did not report the cost of
printing certain signs, flyers
and the services of two bands
at a dance.
According to their report,
these materials and services
were all donated. The court,
using this report as evidence,
convicted the pair of violating
the election rules.
The two officers were initial
ly charged with 19 violations
but eight were dropped by the
plaintiff and nine were dismiss
ed by the court because of lack
of evidence which would prove
Morgan and Miss Sweek a will
ing part of the alleged viola
tions.
After the plaintiff had finish
ed its case, the defense asked
that all charges be dropped be
cause of lack of evidence, but
the court would not dismiss
two of the charges. Later the
court also had to re admit two
other charges because of the re
port of donations in which the
defendants admitted that some
donations were not accounted
for.
The two ollicers were acquit
ted on one of the two charges
which was not dismissed on the
grounds that neither Morgan or
Miss Sweek was aware that a
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KIP MORGAN
SONJA SWEEK
Legislature adjourns, measures passed
Bills coll for tuition hike, enrollment lid
By LAURIE PADILLA
Of the Emerald
SALEM (Special) — The Oregon Legislature went
home Friday after 131 days in session.
For the student in the State System of Higher Edu
cation, one of the most depressing sessions in Oregon
history had ended.
Friday, the legislature passed to the governor bills
which raised tuition, limited out-of-state admissions,
cut graduate programs, moved the chancellor’s office
to the state capital and gave the governor the power
to declare an emergency when violence is threatened
on any public property.
Provisions for the tuition hike, enrollment lid and
cut on graduate programs were included in a bill
which appropriated $167,290,025 from the general fund
for “specified programs” in the six schools within the
state system.
The bill received 29 “aye” votes in the Senate, with
the lone dissenting vote from Sen. Ed Fadeley, D
Eugene.
The $167 million is part of the total $356.7 million
budget being prepared by the State System of Higher
Education for the coming two years.
In explaining the limitation on non-residents Ways
and Means Committee chairman Sen. Berkeley Lent,
D-Portland, said, “Taxpayers should not subsidize the
education of out-of-state students. We should maintain
the quality of education primarily for Oregon students,
although there is value in out-of-state students.”
Lent's committee recommended that enrollment for
out-of-state students be cut to not more than ten
percent for the 1971 freshman classes in all six in
stitutions. Next year, the number of out-of-state stu
dents admitted will be limited to 900 at the University
and OSU.
Presently, 12.1 percent of the students in the six
schools are non-residents. Of this, the University has
24.2 percent and Oregon State has 15.8.
The bill also recommends an increase in tuition at
the six schools. The increase, to be made effective this
fall, will be $30 for both years of the biennium for
in state students.
Out-of-state student tuition will be hiked from the
present $999 a year to approximately $1325 during the
first year of the biennium, and from $1325 to $1398
the second year.
In addition, graduate student tuition will be hiked
to $477 both years of the biennium. Graduate students
now pay $429 a year.
Other provisions of the bill are:
• Lowering of the student-teacher ratio from 1-21
to 1-20.5 for lower division classes.
• Salary adjustment for teaching assistants. They
will receive an increase of 15.5 percent the first year
of the coming biennium and five percent the next.
HB 2201, the capital construction bill which passed
29-1 in the Senate, appropriates $15,060,000 from the
general fund for the state system’s capital construc
tion for the coming biennium. In addition, the bill pro
vides for other appropriations totalling over $84
million.
Of those appropriations, the University will receive
over $11 million for the construction of the following:
classroom, office and teaching center for behavioral
sciences on the southwest portion of campus, and the
College of Education building.
In other action Friday:
• The Senate passed House Bill 1412, which speci
fies that traffic and parking violations on the six state
institutions shall be prosecuted by the district attorney
of the county in which the violation occurred.
The bill further specifies that the fines, penalties and
costs and monies paid by the violator to the court
shall be given to the State Board of Higher Education,
after court cost deductions prescribed by law
shall be made. The monies paid to the board shall then
be appropriated to defray the costs of maintenance
and operation of parking facilities and for acquiring
and constructing additional parking facilities at the
six institutions.
• The House passed House Bill 1880, the so-called
campus disruption bill, which when passed by both
the Senate and House and after amendments were
made, became a public trespassing law.
The bill as it now stands, authorizes the governor to
declare an emergency when “clear and present danger
exists in any public property.” The bill, however, spe
cifiies that the governor would consult with the public
official in charge of the property involved and the
police prior to declaring an emergency.
• The House passed House Joint Resolution 7, which
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