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October 8, 1968 Gerson Asks For Large Turnout USG Elections Begin; 33 Compete By DAVID NESTOR does speak for the student body, Gerson the students from having a congressman. town or in a residence hall, must vote at The following is a complete list of the Bigler, Pennypacker), one, Bette Jean ; Collegian USG Reporters said. Students living in residence halls may the booth in the HUB or the one on the candidates and the areas from which Corson and Libby Hegyes; East C (Hast- ; In regard to a letter that appeared in The Undergraduate Student Govern- vote in their respective living areas be- Mall. they are running: tags, Stuart, Snyder, Stone, McKean), ; ment elections for area congressmen and the Daily Collegian saying that Nittany tween 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 two -. Gerson said that in areas using paper South Halls, one representative, Toni , Patricia Noll and Regina Stepahin; : begin today. Halls should have two USG represen- p.m. to 6:30 p.m. the freshman class president ballots, votes will be invalid u nless the Benedict; Pollock A (Hartranft, Mifflin , North, one Alan Krivoy. > 23 tatives because of , its population, Gerson There are two polling places in East Fraternity, Thirty-three candidates are vying for voters tear off the number from the bot- Beaver), one Al Rubenfield; Pollock B four, George Beighley, ; said that in all of Nittany, Shunk and Halls congressional seats in the elections, , one in Johnston Hall and one in tom of the ballot and deposit both the (Shunk, Nittany, Robert Brinley, Hank Millman, Jim Porter there is not one person willing to Porter), no c a n- which will be held through Thursday. Findlay Union Building. ballot and the number in the ballot box. didate; Pollock Sandman, George Strachan arid Fred ' run for congress. C (Schulze. Wolf, Ritner, There are eight candidates for the Fraternity men and town residents Heister), one, Laura Wertheimer; Sim- Westphal ; town, six, Marty Finan, Terry Gerson said that the students in this List of Candidates ireshman class presidency. may vote between 8:30 a.m. and 5:30 mons-McElwain. one Judy Rubin and Klasky, Bob Lachman. Don Paule, Ken : area could show that they really want to In addition to the one area which has " USG Elections Commissioner Steve p.m. on the ground floor of the Hetzel Mary Ann Ryan : West A (Hamilton, Rodgers, Lee Simmons, Nor ma n , be represented by turning out a large no candidate, there are seven areas in Gerson said he is hoping for a very large Union Building and at voting booths at Thompson.) one, Dennis Stimeling: West Schwartz, Dexter Thompson, Barry Todd ; vote. which the candidates are running unop- and Richard Wynn. turnout at the polls. the foot of the Mall. B (McKee, Watts. Irvin, Jordan), one, - i ; Whoever gets the most write-in votes posed. In South , Pollock A. Pollock C. The eight candidates for freshman Replies To- Letter Barbara Mizik and Jeffery Shear. \ from tthishis area will be the new represen- Gerson said that all fraternity men, West A and North halls there is only one class president are Gary D'Orazio, 1 East A (Tener, Sproul, Brumbaugh , "We are hoping that everyone on tative, Gerson explained. There will be no both brothers and pledges, must vote only candidate and in East A and East C there Robert Kepler. Steve Mackin, Soger Mel- ; campus will vote in these elections to names on the ballots in this area, but for the fraternity representative. Frater- are two candidates for two congress seats Pinchot. Geary), two Aron Arbittier and lott. George Rampulla, Don Rappaport,! show the Administration that USG really Gerson said that this should not prevent nity men living out of the house, either in each. Tom Ritchey; East B (Curtin, Packer, Robert Simon and Dave Still. Homecoming Elections Begin Role For TIM Council MRC Looks At Election of Town Independent „ Men Council Constitution seats begins today. Thirty-five candidates are vying By DIANE LEWIS for the 21 available council seats. Collegian Staff Writer Voting booths are located on the ground floor of Men's Residence Council presented two bills calling tor the Hetzel Union" Building and at the foot of the constitutional changes, discussed the role of MRC in Homecoming and announced three new appointments at last Mall. The polls will be open today, tomorrow and night's meeting. Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. The first bill presented to the Council last proposed a revi- sion in Article III, Section C. of the constitution under The candidates are: eligibility of office. The bill, which MRC passed in the first of ' two consecutive votings, replaces the original constitutional Mitchell A. Abrams, Donald P. Andrews, Ed- requirements of candidates having at least a 2.2 all-U, a 2.4 ward J. Beckwithi James Bennardo, Gary Bongartz, previous term average and a 2.0 while holding office, with a general requirement that they be "in good standing with the Steven J. Brett, Ronald Carelli, Thomas R. Clark, University." Bob Connel, Edward C. Dicenzo, Jr., Stuart The bill passed unanimously with one abstention. Ac- cording to constitutional voting procedures, the bill .must be Goldberg, Thomas J. Green. voted on at two consecutive meetings before it is enacted as a Scott Hildebrand, Linda Kauffman, Robert Kra- part of the constitution. Election Bill Tabled jci, Bob Lachman, Robert J. Lobb, Frank C. Lordi, The second MRC bill calling for constitutional change in Donald Musa, Fred Noll, Don Paule, Robert V. election of officers, was tabled until the next meeting. Under the present system, executive officers are elected by the vot- Reago, Giacoma Restuccia, Susan "Dusty" Rhodes. ing members of the legislature. The amendment proposes that David C. Rhoads Elliott H. Sacks Bruce A. the executives (president, vice president and secretary- , , treasurer) be elected by the area house presidents. Sauerwine, Richard C. Schreep, Steven A. Smallow, Discussion on the proposal concerned the question of itz Dexter M. Thompson, Jr., Barry whether the house presidents were involved enough in MRC Michael .Sp , affairs to be given the responsibility of electing the executives. Todd, Marilyn Warnick, Garry Wamser and Wendy MHC President Gene Cavalucci said.the purpose of the con- stitutional change was to "strengthen the role-of the house E. Weintraub. - .,-- ...„ . .-.-, ._.. ,, ->— —Colle gia n- Photo * by VVIUfam Epslefn presidents." ' Cavalucci said it was a matter of bringing the elections * The professor... ... and the student closer to the area house presidents. KENNETH H. WODTKE. associate professor of psychology REPRESENTING STUDENTS protesting alleged high rent In other action, the chairman of the MRC Homecoming After Homecomina Game and education, was one of five faculty members lo speak and poor living conditions in apartments owned by State Committee, Harold Sokowlove. reported to the Council the compromises reached with Jon Fox, chairman of the at Sunday's Free Speech Movement meeting. He an- College landlord Shiou-Chuan Sun, Vincent Franklin Homecoming Committee. Sokowlove said MRC should work to nounced the formation of a Committee for University claimed "all of you are subjected to a general gyp" and make Homecoming a "truly all-campus event." Reform which- will meet at noon tomorrow in the HUB urged student support of a rent strike. Lists Compromises "I'm tired of hearing that IFC (Inter-Fraternity Council) West Point Cadets does all the work so why shouldn't they get all the credit," he said. The compromises give the men in residence halls the right to use tc-.'dence halls windows to compete in the judging Investigative Groups Formed the right for e„ch house to sponsor its queen and the op- portunity for more banners to be displayed in the Hetzel Union ToVisit Fraternities Building. Cavalucci also announced three new appointments. They Eight hundred cadets from the U.S. Military are Bob Shaffer, a Pollock Tribunal Chairman, as executive Academy will be permitted to attend fraternity so- Adopts Specific issues vice president; Bob Cavalucci, house president in Pollock, as FSM MRC supreme court justice; and John Bowders, East Halls treasurer, as publicity cial functions after the Homecoming game on Nov. 2. By MARC KLEIN students in the palm of their hands, fraternities accept it? Do the dormitories chairman. Franklin said "I'm sure it is only in accept it?" The next MRC meeting will be held Oct. 21 at which time At an Interfraternity Council meeting last Collegian Staff Writer Dr. Sun's apartments where the rooms In reply to Druckman's remarks, the Senate subcommittee investigating the residence hall night, IFC Adviser Mel Kline announced that he had Committees were formed Sunday to are a mess and the rent exorbitant. Franklin, a black student, said, "I don't visitation bill, will give a report of its research. investigate the establishment of a student "All of you are subjected to a general want any black students to come up here received a call yesterday afternoon from West Point bookstore, downtown housing rents, the gyp," Franklin continued, as the au- and face the problems that I'm facing. I requesting that the cadets be given fraternity recruitment of black students and the dience chuckled . don't want them to come up here and get student role in formation of University gypped." privileges. The Council voted to open the houses to policy. Charges Students 'Gypped' A debate developed concerning the The action groups grew out of a Free "You go downtown to buy books, and power of the Undergraduate Student Police Seize Drugs; the cadets after 9 p.m. Speech. Movement forum (FSM) forum you have two and one-half bookstores.
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