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Mystery Over: Persky Wins Voided Ballot UBC Students Chose Stan Persky As Alma Mater Society President in Elections Feb vote again THE UBYSSEY damn it Vol. XLIX, No. 50 VANCOUVER, B.C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1968 224-3916 Mystery over: Persky wins voided ballot UBC students chose Stan Persky as Alma Mater Society president in elections Feb. 7. Former arts president Persky toppled law student Brian Abraham by 3,854 votes to 2,541 in the voided election. Ballots in the election were counted last week after council reversed an earlier decision not to count them. The election was declared null and void by council on a student court recommendation after the court found Persky con­ stitutionally ineligible to run for president. A referendum to change a constitutional clause requiring candidates to have had two full winter sessions will be held today. The amended article in the constitution would limit candi­ dates to students who have been at UBC for one, rather than two years. Observers says the section means any student who has taken Grade 13 at a B.C. high school can not run for president unless he is going into grad studies. Also, they say, the clause prevents graduates of two-year junior colleges and transfer students from other universities from running. Council's decision to count the ballots came after two peti­ tions, containing 1,300 names, were brought to council meeting calling for a ballot count. Results in the Feb. 7 vote gained Persky 59 per cent of the turnout, compared to Abraham's 41 per cent. The results were closer than in last year's presidential elections when current president Shaun Sullivan beat out law student Bob Cruise by a margin of almost two to one. But Persky had a wider margin of victory than did 1966-67 president Peter Braund, who edged opponent Gabor Mate by only 700 votes. Munton helped Alma Mater Society first vice-president Don Munton wrote losing presidential candidate Brian Abraham's cam- — kurt hilger photo > paign publicity. BRAINS NOT BRAWN swept UBC to victory over Simon Fraser University Monday in the f This was revealed last Monday by Abraham's campaign tug-of-war which decided whose Queen would reign over the North American Gymnastics manager, George Davis, law 1. Championships this weekend. The UBC team employed Spraggs rhythm method of pulling ~ Speaking after the votes in the voided election were while using sulphuric acid-treated running shoe treads. counted, Davis said there was no AMS conspiracy to put Abraham up as arts president Stan Persky's only opposition. "The only one who helped us was Don Munton. He wrote all of Abraham's campaign statements. They were the same as Sullivan's last year—everyone knew that," Profs protest Soviet jailings Davis said. Davis recounted how Abraham and presidential can­ By STEPHEN JACKSON abroad under pseudonym works of an antiTSoviet nature. didates Russ Grierson (now commerce president-elect), and Jailing of Russian intellectuals who dissent­ Harry Clare, former Social Credit Club president, decided ed with their government's policies has brought "The defendants in these trials have raised Abraham alone would run in order to unify the right-wing jrganized protest from UBC professors. many issues within the framework of Soviet vote. legality which we cannot consider here," said A statement of concern over government "Grierson had asked if we were serious about the the statement. nterference in what the professors call indispen­ election. We said we were but during the weekend we sable rights, has been signed by 233 UBC faculty UBC faculty members said there were cer­ considered dropping out. Tiembers. tain rights of which the Russians should not be "Then I found out that Grierson had dropped out of It was initiated by four professors: Dr. Wer- deprived. his own accord. When Clare came back from a rally in ler Cohn, associate professor of sociology; F. K. They should have the right to disagree fun­ the education building he was very disheartened. Persky 3owers, professor of electrical engineering; Dr. damentally with one's own government, to ex­ is a very polished speaker—there aren't two people on itobert Rowan, associate professor of philosophy; press such views freely, and to be able to com­ campus who can match him on an election platform. ind W. E. Willmott, associate professor of an- municate them freely, at home and abroad, and "We offered to drop out and Clare agreed. Then I ;hropology. to associate freely with others, in and out of told Grierson's people and they said they couldn't support "We, members of the faculty of the Uni ver­ Russia, in order to express and advocate such Clare. ity of British Columbia, speaking as individual views. "I told Clare about this and he agreed to drop out," icholars, scientists, writers and artists, feel "In asking the Soviet authorities to remove " Davis said. noved to express our concern over the situation all obstacles to the free exercise of these rights, According to the campaign manager, Abraham first )f our fellows in the Soviet Union,'' the state- we see the need to reiterate our firm opposition decided to run the day nominations closed for the election. - nent said. to similar obstacles wherever they may exist, in "About 14 of us from law 2 were sitting around Thurs- Six Russian writers, a scientist and a student particular in our own country and in the West­ ' day morning when Persky was the only candidate. We felt f were arrested ever the last two years for alleged ern world." . someone should run again him—but it was a question of j mti-Soviet agitation. In a letter enclosed with the statement sent who was willing to devote the time. Abraham was picked Four of those arrested were convicted. Two to faculty members, the organizers said that they by default." eceived jail terms of up to five years. The other were bearing all costs and would welcome any Davis said only Abraham was willing to devote time to ' * wo, writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Siniavski, contribution up to one dollar. being AMS president. vere sentenced! to five and seven years' hard They plan to send the statement to the Civil "But Brian lost support every time he appeared in abor respectively. Liberties Association, Soviet universities, and the public," Davis said. They were charged with having published Soviet embassy in Ottawa. •%S Page 2 THE UBYSSEY Tuesday, February 27, 1968 Priest resigns Fine arts head quits Parish didn't like views on sex, politics and religion to do creative work By PAUL KNOX silent" about issues like Vietnam and Civil By NORMAN GIDNEY The head of UBC's fine arts department has resigned Rights. Controversial Anglican priest Jim McKib- so that he can be more creative. "That is the height of immorality. Immor­ bon, pastor of St. Anselm church, resigned Mon­ Prof. B. C. Binning, fine arts head since 1949, said in ality isn't just wrong action, it's also remaining day. an interview Monday he wants to devote the remainder of silent. When the church loses its ability to criti­ his career to teaching and painting. McKibbon, said increasing hostility from the cize society it loses one of its functions." older member of his parish forced his resigna­ "I want to do some creative work, and leave a little tion from the University Blvd. church. NOT SEPARATE FROM STATE painting behind me before I go under," McKibbon said that the church has become he said. "Basically the parish has lost confidence in so much a part of society — contrary to the me, particularly because of my views on hippies Binning, one of Canada's best known popular idea that church and state are separate painters, was teaching at the Vancouver and Vietnam," he said. "There has been grow­ — that it cannot stand back and criticize. School of Art when he was asked to ing discontent over my expression on sex poli­ McKibbon believes that the Freedom March start a fine arts department at UBC. cies and religion". was the turning point of the civil rights move­ He said that the church committee of the ment. "It may have exhausted the peaceful, non­ "At that time, the university was a parish which controls policy decisions wanted violent means for change." damn arid, sterile place," he said. him out. He said the black counter-violence is no "I thought this was a terrific oppor­ tunity to improve the cultural outlook of WON'T RETURN TO CHURCH better or worse than the kind whites have used for years on the Negro. both the university and the community McKibbon said he has no immediate plans "I can understand the Negro being violent. BINNING of Vancouver. for other work but has said before he wouldn't It may be the only word the Anglo-Saxon un- "We started with about 30 students in only one or two return to the Anglican church or work at dertsands but the Negro may end up with the classes," Binning said. "Now we have about 30 courses another church. same hang-up on violence that we have." and more than 1,500 students. In an interview before his resignation, Mc­ Another contemporary problem — or the Binning said his most important achievements have Kibbon identified the church as a complete cap­ exaggeration of it by authorities — is the use been the establishment of the Norman MacKenzie Centre tive of middle class suburbia. of marijuana. for the Fine Arts and the acceptance of the arts by students at UBC. The 36-year old minister of St. Anselm's MARIJUANA HYSTERIA ON "Students know we're here. There's never the problem said he's finding himself a misfit in the church.
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