Friday, April 16, 1962
Eugana, Oragon
Oregon daily
Voluma 83
Numbar 132
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Photo by Mat* Pyrms
C.J. Balt* edged Kevin Kount by 26 votes In the ASUO Presidential elections, but both will be on
the ballot In the Wednesday and Thursday general elections.
Balfe, Kouns face runoff
By Dane Claussen
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C.J Balte, a junior majoring in psychology,
won the ASUO presidential primary elections
by a narrow one percentage point, beating
Kevin Kouns, a junior in sociology and
women's studies
Balfe finished with 759 votes — 26 more than
Kouns' 733 votes — and both primary winners
will be on the general election ballot Wednes
day and Thursday
"It was a close one," said Balfe, ASUO Pres
Rich Wilkins' administrative assistant, after
hearing the election results, announced just
after midnight "We re looking forward to next
week, the next round "
Balfe, endorsed by the Interfraternity Coun
cil and the Oregon Daily Emerald, had no
comment on the vote support recieved by
Kouns
"I think we have demonstrated that we are a
credible alternative." Kouns said about the
elections results, adding that other coalitions
besides the “Greek block can run a credible
campaign.”
Kouns, co-director of SEARCH, is running
on the Students for a Progressive Agenda
platform. He was the only candidate to desig
nate a vice presidential candidate — ASUO
comptroller Ken Packman.
"We’ve won the battle — we've not won the
war,” Kouns said
Balfe and Kouns were followed in the vote
totals by Debbie Mellow with 480 votes and
Tom Brannon with 146 votes Candidates Jef
frey Houston and Ed Colligan, who had both
withdrawn from the race, received 49 and 35
votes, respectively.
Mellow, a senior in management and
telecommunications, said she was not sur
prised by the outcome of the election.
"In the beginning, I thought I'd do better,"
she said Her expectations changed after
being "surprised at the politicking that went on
with various offices ana candidates ”.
She also said she will talk to Balfe and Kouns
before deciding who to support in the general
election, and that she was disappointed with
the voter turnout — about 2,200, or about 200
less than last year
Brannon, a political science senior, was
unavailable for comment.
Other final totals were available only for EMU
Board elections, which served as a general
election. Unofficial results were available for
the Incidental Fee Committee — a primary
election — and OSPIRG Board positions — a
general election — for five of six posts.
Winners of EMU Board posts, from a
10-member field, and their votes: Mary Hotch
kiss, English junior, 1,036; Paula Jampsa, law,
841; Doug Bauer, finance and political science
junior, 829; John Dulcich, business and ac
counting junior, 827; and Alan Scearce, busi
ness sophomore, 822.
Unofficial results of the race for the
14-candidate general election, which will
select the seven-member Incidental Fee Com
mittee: Jeff Nudelman, political science junior,
889; Betzy Fry, journalism junior, 749; Diane
Ritterband-Mason, sociology junior, 746; Mary
Alice Holmes, psychology sophomore, 737;
Mary Catherine Shrauger, political science
junior, 661; Barton Hill, biology sophomore,
635; Stephen Pacheco, junior in political
science and biology, 634; Ted Marks, so
phomore in political science and biology, 625;
Devin Wate, business sophomore, 595; David
Lesser, political science junior, 580; Rick
Braun, law, 570; Gordon Mallon, law, 490; Bob
Mead, computer and information science so
phomore, 256; and Mike Cross, political
science and international studies senior, 248
All five candidates for the six-member
OSPIRG Board were elected, with the two top
write-in candidates to be announced today or
Saturday.
Antelope still a city;
ballot proposal fails
ANTELOPE (AP) — Efforts of long-time residents in this tiny
Central Oregon town to disincorporate the town to avoid a feared
takeover by disciples of an Indian guru failed on Thursday.
The vote was 55 against disincorporate and 42 in favor.
Ninety-seven ballots were cast, including two absentee ballots.
The county clerk challenged 68 ballots.
Both sides said before the votes were counted that they would
challenge the outcome in the courts.
Karen LeBreton, the Wasco County election supervisor, said
the county automatically entered a challenge to any voter who had
registered fewer than 30 days previous to today’s election.
She said any ruling eventually would be made by a circuit judge
when one side or the other challenged the election.
The latest step in the six-month legal battle brought between
the red-garbed followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and a town
that doesn't want them brought almost 100 reporters and other
onlookers — more than the population of the town itself.
“I think we would be better disincorporating," said Don Smith,
a City Council member who was one of the leaders of the disincor
poration movement and one of the first voters.
He denied charges by Rajneesh followers that the council was
discriminating against the commune members because of their
religion.
"I don’t even know what their religion is. How can I discriminate
against something that I don’t even know what it is,” he said.
‘‘We plan to stay — no matter what,” he said. But he admitted
he and his wife, Donna, already had listed their home for sale.
“You’ll have to ask my wife about that,” he said. She was
unavailable
The event was not without its humor. Arthur Clark, an Antelope
resident, wore a necklace of empty rifle-cartridge cases with a
button proclaiming him a “Descendant of Oregon Pioneers.” The
necklace was a parody on the wooden-bead necklaces worn by the
Rajneesh with a picture of their spiritual leader.
Sheela Silverman, president of Rajneesh Foundation Interna
tional described the Bhagwhan’s message as one of living and
loving in which all traditional religions have some value.
Antelope had a population of 40 in 1980 and 31 voters, but by
Thursday morning, 98 people had registered, six of them that day.
The informal count had 53 Rajneesh members at the time.
Health center fights
herpes ‘epidemic ’
Genital herpes, the
“epidemic of the 80s,” appears
to be spreading most rapidly
among educated men and
women between 20 and 25
years old, according to current
medical statistics.
National medical author
ities estimate over 20 million
Americans currently are afflict
ed with the virus. From 300,000
to 500,000 new cases of genital
herpes appear each year, ac
cording to the Information
Center on Herpes Disease.
Dr. Jim Jackson, director of
the University Student Health
Center, says the health center
treats students afflicted with
many kinds of sexually trans
mitted diseases, such as gon
orrhea, urethritis, scabies,
crabs, and genital herpes.
Students have a lot of
“misconceptions and strange
ideas” about genital herpes and
other sexually transmitted dis
eases, Jackson says One of the
most important duties of the
health center is to “help pa
tients with sexually transmitted
diseases learn more about the
process and put their problems
in perspective,” he says
Genital herpes is a lifelong
infection with no known cure It
is marked by lesions in the gen
ital area which may break out
every two or three months in
some patients, Jackson says.
The disease is highly
infectious, which leads to ser
ious disruptions of social and
sexual relationships, he says.
The health center is work
ing on ways to help patients deal
with these disruptions, Jackson
says. The center now has a
30-page booklet about genital
herpes, including ways to han
dle the different personal
aspects associated with the
disease.
The health center and the
counseling center will hold an
information and discussion
group meeting on genital
herpes May 13 at 3:30 p.m. in
the health center.
Students can visit the
health center and receive a
checkup for free, Jackson says,
but students must pay for tests
and lab work.
Students who believe they
may need treatment for a sex
ually transmitted disease do not
have to go to the University
health center. The Lane County
Health Department, Whitebird
Clinic, and most private phy
sicians all provide care for gen
ital herpes and other sexually
transmitted diseases