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Election Results wsu FINAL ASWSU ELECTION TOTALS (announced by Election Board) Daily EVERGREEN Fee Allocation Refer endurn: Friday, October 17, 1969 VOLUME LXXVI PULLMAN. WASHINGTON, 9916J Number 15 -----_._.,---- North-South Ski Bowl 1659 WSU High School in the Congo 1399 Deadline delayed University housing 1071 for council report New cage ror Butcn (write-in) 753 Black Studies curr icurm 704 The committee to study mili- International Exchange Program 655 tary recruiting will present its Carpets for Holland Library report to President Glenn Terrell 564 on Oct. 23 not OcL 20, it was ASWSU bus service 343 announced yesterday. "Quality instruction" Awards 320 Student Pubn srnng Center 272 Mrs. Edna Douglas, chairman Day Care Center 206 of the subcommittee of the uni- Refund (write-in) versity council studying re- 158 cruiting, made the announcement in a letter to the Daily Ever- Total votes cast 8398 green. She said the reason for moving back the deadline for the App, Total Voters 2799 report is to allow the ASWSU Senate time to assess student ASWSU Senate elections: opinion and make recommenda- tions on the subject. District six (Gannon-Goldsworthy-N eill) Mrs. Douglas' letter said that Senate action on recruiting won't be taken until Oct, 22. Harvey Dunham 231 Jerr y Paulukonis 90 Skip Kearney (write-in) 4 Dave' Butler (write-in) Mets grab series title District one (off-campus) NEW YORK (AP) - New York Carlton Lewis 216 went wild yesterday as the Mets h, Tr-r i Dixon Jim Voiland 186 won the World Series from the Rick Freeberg 74 Baltimore Orioles 5-3. Gordon Ryan 63 Ticker tape poured from the Doug Crawford (write-in) 1 windows of Rockefeller Center Senate reacts favorably Doug Bell (write-in) and horns blew throughout the midtown area. Bill Dickerson (write-in) to restructu re proposal Total strangers stopped and Percentages of voters in districts one and six were un- embraced on Manhattan side- The Student Senate acted favor- paid that are of no benefit to available from Election Board. walks. able on a committee recommen- graduate students. The Senate dation to restructure the grad- voted to require an itemized uate/undergraduate relationship request for funds from GSA at last night-s meeting. rather than vote immediately on a - Senator Tony Cook reported lump sum of $2,500. Terrell sends letter that his committee on studying James White, president of the the restructure issue unanimous- Butchmen, presented a request ly recommended approving the for funds to help defer costs of GSA proposal to be dropped from Butchmen sportscoats, hats, and the ASWSU government struc- travel expenses. Such funding was President to President ture. Cook's recommendation discussed but no action was taken. was in agreement with a A motion to remove $168 pre- unanimous GSA vote on the issue. viously allocated to the Butchmen EDITORS NOTE: President Glenn Terrell last Prug-ram "as posi lh P The restructure proposal will for travel expenses to the Uni- night responded to Vietnam Moratorium. Citing require an ASWSU constitutional versity of Washington basketball The program on our campus was so postive ~the sophisticated manner which characterized change to become effective on game was defeated. in its approach however and so revealing the WSU community response," he said "it July I, 1970. The Senate voted to give $100 of the depth of feeling of the par ticipants reaffirms our faith in the University generally Senator Don Anderson pre- to Spurs to aid with expenses that I believe it important that the fact of and in WSU specifically." sented a GSA request for an of their upcoming blood drive. these feelings be relayed to you. activity fee refund of $2,500. Discussion of a proposal from "The program yesterday proves once again This 'amount represents 39 per the Student Bill of Rights Com- The program consisted basically of a film that views in regard to public policy or any cent of the activity fees paid mittee, a parking ticket proposal on the Vietnam war, a symposium of students important issue can be held with deep con- by graduate students this Fall. and faculty, several speeches, including one and the issue of disc ipline struc- viction and still be expressed in ways both Anderson explained that this is a by Gov. Daniel Evans, and an impressive ture will be carried over to next dramatic and orderly." conservative estimate of the fees week's meeting. candlelight march. All of the activites were Terrell was so "moved by both content and sophisticated and constructive, and most in- manner of expression of the moratorium, volved a large number of par tictpants. he wrote the following' letter to President Nixon. Ut'a<"l1011 tn ~()' r-r nnr YAF, Radical Union Dear Mr. President: The reaction to the Governor's talk best The events of the Oct. 15Vietnam Moratorium revealed the feeling of urgency regarding our debate recruiting issue Day on the campus at WSU were of such an withdrawal from Vietnam. When one student, impressive and constructive nature that I for example, asked Gov. Evans to write to you expressing the group's opposition to our con- Positions open for strippers. Apply at the WSU Placement felt it my duty as Pr es ident of the University Bureau. to inform you of them. It is also my belief tinued involvement in the Vietnam war, the Governor's assent won a standing ovation. I Even this type of recruitment should be allowed on the WSU that you would wish to be informed of ex- campus according to Don Anderson, president of the wsu Young pressions of public opinions such as these. am writing to support Gov. Evans agreement to write to you. Americans for Freedom. He stated this in a debate with Jerry Calvert, Radical Union Affiliate and protestor of on campus Take no stand military recruitment, at the Popcorn Forum yesterday. Having Ivory Tower Recruitment is necessary for academic I will not attempt to detail the variety of freedom. said Ande rson. It is important to hear from all fac- I should say at the outset that I have opinions about the timing of our withdrawal tions so that we may take in their ideas, sift them and formulate taken the position that the war in Vietnam from Vietnam. The main point that I wish valid opinions of our own. to convey, Mr. Pr estdent, is that the 2,500 is not an issue on which universities, as It is time for on camups military recruiting to stop, resonds universities, should take an official position. or so participants at the Governor's speech Calvert. This would involve a moral judgement, but he feels Rather it is the responsibility of educational (thoughtful, constructive, highly-responsible that the judgement must be made and made now. The Vietnam institutions to provide the environment for students and faculty) revealed a profound War is the pivotal issue of the Radical Union's decision against concern over the Vietnam war and our con- free exchange of views about such complex recruitment.' The immorality of that war makes recruiting for tinued involvement in it. issues among the faculty, students, and ad- it immoral as well. ministration. Consequently, the contents of The two men moved away from the question of miJitary re- this letter should not be construed as an of- cruitment to the one concerning Vietnam. Calvert gave three ficial position of the President of WSU nor, reasons for U.S. -involvement in Vietnam. First, the U.S, suffers through him, the entire institution. Further- Sincerely yours, from being a big nation with a big head, who must impose its more many members of our university com- ideas on other nations. Fear of a Communist conspiracy is another munity did not par ttcipate in the events of and U.S. corporate interest in Vietnam was the third. Oct. 15, and motives and opinions of those Glenn Terrell Anderson refuted the -statement by saying Calvert didn't have who did varied. President anything to prove the U.S. was an imperialist. october 17, 1969 page 2 DAILY EVE'RGREEN' 'Social prcqramsdown the slope In an almost unbelieveable display of self- minorities studies programs. The Congo High ishness, 23 per cent of the students who voted School although a worthwhile project, is not for the fees allocation referendum selected the as so' immediately essential as assisting development of the North-South Ski Bowl as ethnic understanding in our own state. their highest priority for spending. It is especially pathetic that improving The students of this institution of higher Butch's cage, a choice which had to be written learning elected to spend their money for in, received considerably more votes than the recreation which will benefit only those stu- Black Studies Program. dents who can later afford to use it, although Consider tng the fact that about 23 per cent at least half a dozen socially constructive of the students voted, almost double the per alternatives were available on the refere'ndum. cent which turned out for the last referendum, The Experimental Education Program, the claim of apathy cannot be made concerning probably one of the most socially constructive fees allocation. projects in this university, was selected only No, at least the students care. They care as fourth on the priority list, again demon- enough to be certain that their interests (the strating students' lack of social concern. ski bowl) are gratified and, feeling a little The choice of the WSU High School in the guilty, they apparently cared enough to appease Congo is little else than' ironic. It is dis- their conscience by voting for the Congo High appointing to note that although students are School.