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ELECTION SPECIAL. Monday, February 26, 1973 The vote may be one of our most cherished privileges but the educated vote is clearly more a responsibility than a right. This special issue, published jointly by the Election Committee and The Observer, was designed to offer the responsible voter a clear view of all thirteen candidates in this year's student body elections. The view of each candidate offered here has not been altered by any editorial intervention. The only guideline imposed on the candidates was the limit of one page. The art work, text and design are the work of the individual candidates. Placement in this publication was determined on the basis of random selection. This special issue is made possible through the joint cooperation of student government and The Observer and the time and trouble of Jerry Lutkus, Anthony Abowd1 Rod Braye, Joe Wilkowski, Joe Abell and John Flanni_gan. Paul Dziedzic Chairman of the Election Committee John Abowd Editor-in-chief, The Observer ... ... ........ 4 .... 4 4 4 • ··-·-*-''~...... L-. .. _....__ our next SBP . • • Student Services Student Association Council No pol icy- just service (Present HPC plus Off-Campus) Student Information Student Union Judicial Chairman SAC Chairman (elected by SAC) Academic Council The Clarke-Singleton ticket is not campaigning Standing apart from this policy-orientated in an effort to present "new" and "untried" commission will be student services, organized answers to arbitrary campus "issues". Such a under the direction of the executive coordinator practice has made Student Body elections the of the SAC. His position will be that of a business fruitless spectacles we know them to be. There manager, not a policy maker, and thus the are no answers to be found as long as we continue former dual nature of our head spokesman will to pretend that our present student government be eliminated. The Chairman of the SAC will do structure can adequately deal with our "hall what he does best--speak for his halls. The oriented" problems. Jim Clarke and Chris executive coordinator will allow student services Singleton will be the last Student Body President to do what they do best--serve students as and Vice-President at Notre Dame. students want and need them. In their place will function the most capable Students will begin to see where their activities and potentially representative group on campus fee goes--the SAC will appoint the committee -the Student Association Council made up of the that will allocate those funds, and will also have present Hall President's Council and additional final ratifying power over that committee's Off-Campus representation. That group will work. The people in the halls will decide, at long then, with the abolition of Student Body officers last, whether their activities fee should finance and the Student Life Council, be the only lobbyist those activities which their own halls sponsor, or and policy-making organization on campus. The if they will continue to finance club activities. issues will be handled by the men most capable People who live off-campus will also, at long last, of understanding student opinion, those who live decide whether their activities fee should help to right with the students, the Hall Presidents. enhance a total off-campus experience or con tinue to be spent, hidden from them, on those various club activities. Jim Clarke and Chris Singleton are the first candidates ever willing to put aside the personal "ego-trip" in order to better student govern ment. They will resign within two weeks. They will resign with Notre Dame in possession of a truly representative student government. We live in the halls. We live in groups off-campus. We must begin to realize that only in those halls and only through capable representation of those off-campus students do we realize our power. Vote Clarke and Singleton. This is the last time a campaign week such as this will ridicule your intelligence. We will implement an effective Student Association and resign within two weeks of . our last SBP taking office. Clarke--Singleton Ride The Cosmic Wave With special thanks to: Frank O'Malley Jim Hunt Michael Welby Paul Reimann Jeff Me Pherson Joe Clement 'Mook' Flora George Dyroff Mark Chechia Jim Neff Mike McQuestion Joe Marino 'Root' Cornelius Mike 'Oakie' Madden Mom and Dad and Chuck Luci lie Perrelli Lyon's Hall G.H. Bigels Simo Zorro Mickey Mouse Keith Emerson John Lennon Rick Wakeman Bozo Geezer Uriah Heep Plastic Fantastic Sunshine Panama Red Red Baron Molly the Cow and finally Dan Wesolowski Jay Angeluzzi RAY CARLSON of people & rabbits ... In a campaign, it seems awful easy sometimes to lose yourself. Hopefully, Ne didn't lose you or us, through it all. Wl''d like to here express what we think we really stand for. The main ideas, as I personally tried to put across was that Wl'. the people here are the university. It has little to do with l'mpty buildings or regulations but with people. You have probably heard this from a lot of people lately. I'll try to say what this idea means to me. J:o'irst let me comment about a couple of proposals by other candidates. The one is the idea of incorporation of the student. I reject the idea as not good. You don't fight the administration that sometimes runs like a machine by l'onstructing another machine. It can have no positive result and can only lead to friction on both sides. The other idea I reject is overconcern for new buildings. Of l'ourse. we need a new student center, that has been proposed. but we have no possible way of funding the building and is thus. rather hopeless. OK. so what do I stand for? First, I think we must fight Photogenic Tom Kastelic, on the left. Slovenian, steam against rules which have nothing to do with promoting tunnel expert. dropout. former rock entrepeneur, confirmed general good. schizoid. "I am fearless half of the time." J:o'irst. Parietal regulations, and all, should be l'liminated by directly opposing the present rule. Sl'condly .women should be allowed to live where they wish. They aren't objects placed on campus to be on display for us. Nl'xt. we must also implement positive programs. One Son of Tito such area for consideration is off-campus assistance. We can no longer consider ourselves a purely residential university. Thl' needs of all of us must be considered. Also along with Somewhere a-long the line I decided that three years of these programs. we propose a winter term of study and leave Notre Damt! were better than four, and so as a junior I went of absence program, with which you should now be to Innsbruck, and in keeping with this thought, I realized that familiar. six months of ND-Innsbruck were better than twelve. So I These are my proposals and I ask your support. My own quit. packed around, and wound up building Opels in Berlin. qualifications for the office of SBP are quite inclusive. I Eventually I came home to see McGovern elected. (And to worked for a half-year on a dairy farm after leaving school those running with past experience in politics of any sort, <and before coming back) and am a proficient gardener as Pspecially McGoverns, if you still persist you've got to be as wl'll. Such abilities could definitely add a new flair to the looney as mel. In January they let me in, and I returned. office. (Presently we need some one to raise white rabbits Tor I deeply believe in the experiential value of the winter us in this campaign. l term of independent study and the leave of absence program, Hl'ally in all seriousness, I think its time for us to be con and I want to see them adopted here. Members of the ad cerned with what Student government can do for us here, not ministration and faculty approve of both plans,and we should how the bureaucracy alone works. move for quick acceptance or else we'll wait as long for this Many problems are only going to get solved if we get as we waited for co-education. This is why I've run, and together. 1 really believe this is the principal way of over consequently I am now regarded as just another coming our security worries. Though some guards are megalomaniac seeking the office. Guilt by association. needed. each one of us must really be concerned with the D(\ what you want, but if you wanna go to Mexico, you'll others here to make this a safe place as well as a good place have to get there yourself. to be. I really want to do something positive here in so many areas from academics to personal living but the more I consider. the more I know it can't be done without you. TOM KASTELIC How about getting together? .-_ __ .a.._._ L ....... a, .. LLL4.. ' .. -· ..__~_....__ ~Brian Mastro SBP Bill Fenton SBVP ~··~ Our main intention for running for SBP and SBVP is to give College, thus releasing the entire building for undergraduate all undergraduate students the opportunity to live on cam use. pus. We believe that the main issue at this moment is :l. Carroll Hall--Return Carroll Hall to undergraduate whether or not you will be forced to live off campus. students. Graduate Students should bear the burden of Through our research, we have organized a 6 point plan in moving off campus. This point is expressed in the univer which the university would be able to house on campus those sity's Bulletin of Information.