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.?'_ _ _ +i~ 7aw nu rFIDStrr S'utrtPntrrn at lhmplis 47th Year MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1966 Vol. 47, No. 16 Candidates To Seek Ten Offices STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS SLATE In Next Week's Campaigning RED TICKET BLACK TICKET Last Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons the Red and OFFICE Don Hollingsworth Chip Hatzenbuehler Black Conventions nominated nineteen candidates for the ten President (Independent)-Bo Scarborough Student Government offices. Two independent candidates threw Vice-president Willie Edington David Blankenship their hats into the ring Wednesday and all the candidates will Secretary-treasurer Eleanor Jackson Julie Stanton bring a full ten days of cam-! Several offices have been elimi- Athletics Jimmy Whittington Mary Jane Riegler paigning next Friday when the Barry Boggs Doug Post nated from the essential body of Education student body goes to the polls elected officers and commissioners Intercollegiate Relations Jack Burch under the revised constitution, Publications Jim McKnight Brett Robbs to cast their ballots. those of Commissioner of Elections (Independent)-David Adcock The polls will be set up in and Commissioner of Undergradu- ate Women. This will be the the east end of the first floor sec- Religious Activities Charles Murphy Betty Beall ond year that two fairly recent of- of Palmer Hall and automatic fices have been included in the Social Knox Phillips Richard Strautman balloting, those of Commissioner Student Welfare Sam Highsmith David MacMillan voting booths will again be of Intercollegiate Relations and of used. Student Welfare. The Red and Black slates as well as the independent candidates will be introduced in assembly next "lSouthwestern Players To Present Wednesday, and the candidates for the offices of president and vice- president will address the student Two Performances of Misanthrope body. At 8:00 p.m. Tuesday the cam- John Kinnaird will portray Al- Ostby as Eliante, John Hille as paign will get off to a roaring start ceste and Susan Storer, Celimene Philinte, Steve Ehlers as Oronte, as the candidates will be on the Tina Alston as Arsinoe, Richard when the Southwestern Players spot to answer questions from stu- Strautman as Ciltandre, Dick Roose dents concerning their platforms present Moliere's "The Misan- as Acaste, Dick Wardlaw as Du- and their plans, in Voorhies Social thrope" at 8:00 p.m., March 16 and Bois, Carlton Avery as Basque, and Room. Wednesday night at 7:00 17 in Hardie Auditorium. The play John Larson as an Officer. p.m. a similar discussion will take was first performed in Paris just The play will not be set in the place in Townsend Social Room, Seventeenth Century but in an in- three hundred years ago this June. and the students will have their definite "art nouveau" period for last chance to confront their poli- Others in the cast to be directed which Virginia Robison is design- ticians Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. by Professor Ray Hill are Gail ing a stylized garden scene. in Voorhies. Campaign Platforms for President Chip Hatzenbuehler Bo Scarborough Don Hollingsworth Black Ticket Independent Red Ticket I do not seek the office of Presi- The President of the student body The following paragraphs repre- SOUTHWESTERN'S NOBLEST COUPLE was chosen last Friday. Sen- dent of the SGA without having is faced with a momentous task. He sent some of my thoughts upon en- iors Carole Pickens and Ray Bye will graduate as Mr. and Miss South- considered, in detail, what I con- must be able to work well with tering the race for President of the western, a fiftting climax to two distinguished college careers. sider to be necessary in a person people and respect their ideas and Student Government Association. who would run for the office, and their motives. He must motivate 1. The President of the SGA must why I feel myself to be qualified. and help them without dominating always know where Student Gov- Night It has been my privilege to serve them. That is his role. That is how ernment is headed. He must possess Annual AOPi Stunt this year, to the best of my abilities, he can make Southwestern a bet- the experience and the leadership as one of the four Junior Class ter place to learn and to grow. with which to guide the total pro- Senators. As a senator, I have Will Be Held At Kingsbury Student government at South- gram of Student Government-- School Auditorium will be gained the valuable experience of The night of March 12, Kingsbury High seeing Student Government as a western has too often been too in- making sure that Student Gov- will compete in the scene of a battle of wits. Sororities and fraternities whole, a total picture; for this is volved with its own structure to be ernment is pursuing valid and AOPi's annual stunt night. Each sorority and fraternity will perform the first responsibility of a senator. aware of the many opportunities meaningful a skit which will be judged on4 objectives and not "Ah, South- Unlike a commissioner, a senator to improve the college. originality, presentation, and ad- in a little ditty called has no special field of concern; The student simply taking up time or going or Ah, grass, trees, herence to the rules. western . .," and he is a much more capable should be actively involved in the through the motions of accomplish- Tri-Delta's skit is entitled "Came- wilderness, politics . senator if he is able to see the learning process and there should ing something. lot's Great Society," a creation The inscrutable Pike's show un- total view of Student Government be greater dialogue between stu- 2. My only which could be subtitled "Rush Re- precedented discretion by leaving campaign promise is unsaid in their enig- rather than his own special inter- dents and faculty. Students should the visited," which might be a good some things ests. This overall view is also the promotion of more quasi com- exercise for them anyway. Zeta matic title, "An Untitled Skit." Ap- most important responsibility of be more aware of the world around mittees in Student Government. Tau Alpha will open a discophectory propriately enough the Sigma Nu's the President of the Student Body them and concerned about issues From the record of the Academic in which "shindig" dancers will vi- show their mettle in smoke-filled rooms, telling all in "Politics and -he must be intimately connected that are larger than the Southwest- Affairs Committee, Dilemma, and brate when "Beef Tips Must Go- with all three areas of campus life: Cole will dish out a slaw Poker." The Kappa Delta's will ern campus. That sounds idealistic other similar committees, it is evi- Go." Jim faculty and administration through and we may never substantially of starchy puns in Kappa Sig's en- present a disabled fable, "Once dent that the advantages of such . ." The magnificent his role as ex-officio member of the improve the situation. But we try, "Corn, But Not Forgotten." A Upon a Time bodies are Kappa Alpha's will come out of re- faculty-student committees; Stu- might make a greater effort. very valuable. However, fairy tale about Southwestern dent Government as presiding of- be offered by the Chi tirement to strike terror in the We must be willing to risk mak- the most important advantage of males will ficer in the Executive Council and ing mistakes, to seek new direc- Omega's in three acts. With a mon- hearts of Greeks with "Doggies Are quasi committees is that they uti- or a God's Best Friend," with Willett as its spokesman to the Senate; and tions, and work together to improve icker like "Rumplestiltskin," the Student Body as its President. lize the talents of students who do Name," it had better playing the role of the fire hy- every phase of life at 'Southwest- "What's In a When he speaks to the administra- not desire to hold an elective of- Alpha Tau Omega dares drant. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon's ern, not just the student govern- be good. tion, he is representative of the stu- ment. There are commissioners fice in to parody the Southwestern Movie don't have a title yet. Student Government, but dent community and whatever he who are elected for this purpose who do desire to hold says or does will strike them not a position and I would do everything possible which merely as the statement or action to work with them, not over them. affords them some time lee- Procedures Changed of a student, but as that of the In education, first we must find a way in accomplishing their objec- Elections students' elected spokesman. When way to make Freshman Orientation tives. Such a margin for action before the Senate, he is he speaks effective. It should be a means of usually is not available to more than a senator-he is the improving the freshman's attitude elected members For S.A.U. and Cheerleaders speaker for the Executive Council, toward learning and his apprecia- of Student Government. Revisions to the Elections Code have been approved by the Student either singly or collectively, as well tion of Southwestern as a place to Thus, Student Government has fi- Senate. These changes, presented by Bob Glasgow, concern the election as the chief executive of Student learn. In athletics, in religious af- nally come to utilize the abilities of cheerleaders and the election of { Government. When he speaks to fairs, and in publications there is of students who because of studies S.A.U. class representatives and of- FCA To Show Movie the student body, he must not only a great opportunity to act.