University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Associated Students of the University of Montana Montana Kaimin, 1898-present (ASUM) 11-8-1972 Montana Kaimin, November 8, 1972 Associated Students of the University of Montana Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper Recommended Citation Associated Students of the University of Montana, "Montana Kaimin, November 8, 1972" (1972). Montana Kaimin, 1898-present. 6089. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/6089 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM) at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Montana Kaimin, 1898-present by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Landslide victory for Nixon Judge defeats Smith Democratic Lt. Gov. Tom Judge Robert Woodahl appeared to have to McGovern’s 65,939. Nixon won Arnold Olsen again lost to Compiled by the defeated his Republican opponent defeated his Democratic op­ in Montana as the Republican vice- Republican Rep. Dick Shoup. Montana Kalmin Ed Smith in the race for Montana’s ponent, John Sheehy. Early results presidential candidate in 1952 and Shoup beat Olsen two years ago and the Associated Press governorship last night. gave Sheehy a slim lead over 1956, and in 1960 and 1968 as the for the first congressional district Woodahl, but Woodahl eventually President Richard Nixon garnered Republican presidential can­ seat. Olsen received 54,980 votes. overtook Sheehy for a tight 99,052 521 electoral votes and ap­ didate. Shoup 61,526. Shoup former Mis­ 6 a.m. returns gave Judge 121,543; to 86,371 early lead. Woodahl held proximately 41,537,296 popular soula mayor, carried Missoula votes, or 57 percent, and Smith an early 2,032 to 1,751 lead in Mis­ votes to insure his re-election to county with 4,090 votes to Olsen’s At 6 a.m., tallies were as follows: 94,876 votes, or 43 percent. Early, soula. the presidency. 3,868. results in Missoula revealed a lead In Missoula County Nixon of 2,414 to 1,335 for Judge. Sen. George McGovern, Democratic incumbent John In the state treasurer's contest, received 3,981 votes in contrast to Republican Hollis Connors Democratic presidential can­ Melcher captured the second McGovern’s 3,801. Judge grabbed a 3-1 lead over didate, received 17 electoral votes congressional district seat with narrowly beat Democrat John and 25,506,308 popular votes, 78,369 votes to Republican Dick Smith with the first returns from McLaughlin by a 89,705 to 78,340 traditionally Democratic Silver conceding defeat before all the Forester’s 23,824. vote margin. In Missoula, Bow County. His victory became state returns were tabulated. McLaughlin held an early lead of Nixon, fulfilling pollsters’ predic- apparent when he captured the 1,933 to 1,511. lead in normally Republican Ticket-splitting was evident in Nix­ , tions that he would receive about In the contest for public service Yellowstone County. on's historic landslide victory. In 63 per cent of the vote, said, “Years commissioner, Democrat Lou the Senate and House of from now people will look back to Boedecker defeated his At 6 a.m. tallies were as follows: Representatives races the the generation of the 1970s, at how Republican opponent Alex we conducted ourselves and they Republicans did not achieve the Stephenson by a 94,834 to 71,781 can say, ‘God Bless America.’ ” Running parallel to Judge in the hoped for majority in either branch margin. Missoula’s early vote also vote collection for Lieutenant of Congress. went to Boedecker, 2,173 to 1,307. Acknowledging his massive re- Governor was Democratic can­ With 33 of 100 Senate seats at election, President Nixon said, didate Bill Christiansen of Hardin. In the state superintendent of stake, Democrats ousted four "We are on the eve of what could Christiansen, former minority public instruction race, Democrat veteran Republican senators and be the greatest generation of leader of the Montana House, Dolores Colburg beat her gained two seats for a probable 57- peace—true peace—mankind has easily outdistanced Harold “Son­ ever known.” Republican opponent, Jerry Agen, 43 margin. They lost only a handful ny” Hanson, 106,733 to 77,312. by a wide margin. Late results gave of House seats, and gained one With votes still to be counted, Nix­ Colburg 107,596 votes to Agen’s governorship when Daniel Walker on apparently surpassed the In the race for secretary of state, 54,976. First returns from Missoula finally edged GOP incumbent Nixon—‘Four more years’ greatest popular landslide in Democrat Frank Murray defeated gave Colburg a 2,437 to 1,222 lead. Richard Ogilvle of Illinois. Sen. Lee Metcalf will return to the American history, the61.1 percent his Republican opponent, David John Harrison, running unop­ U.S. Senate for his third term vote by which former President Lewis, capturing an early lead of posed for associate justice of the "This is a personal triumph for Mr. receiving 115,168 votes to Lyndon Johnson defeated Barry 112,377 to 59,851. Murray also lead Montana Supreme Court, cap­ Nixon—not a party triumph,” Republican Henry Hibbard's Goldwater in 1964. in Missoula's early returns by a tured 41,536 votes. E.V. “Sonny” Republican National Chairman 102,149. Metcalf carried Missoula margin of 2,335 to 1,190. Omholt, also unopposed, received Robert Dole said. County with 4,758 votes to Hib­ "The Presidency belongs to Republican Attorney General 46,004 for state auditor. bard's 3,241 votes. someone else," McGovern said in Nixon won his fifth victory in Mon­ conceding defeat. He urged his tana with 93,113 votes compared Former Democratic congressman - page 4 AN INDEPENDENT DAILY m STUDENT NEWSPAPER Deschamps, Baucus lead local races State legislative poll results from Marbut, Republican, 9,976 votes; Democrat John Moo'n and J. G. 51 of 63 Missoula County precincts Robert Watt, Democrat, 9,719 montana "Bud Lamoureux lead the race as of 2:30 a.m. showed G. W. "Por" votes; A. L. "Bud" Ainsworth, 8,620 the two offices of justice of the Deschamps, Republican dan- votes, and Tom Haines, peace with 14,937 and 13,627 votes didate for the Senate, leading with Republican, 8,235 votes. respectively. Republican Marvin 12,229 votes. Harry Northey, also a Rickel received 7,631 votes. Republican, is second with 10,732 votes. In a close race John Patterson leads Ed Dussault in the non­ Democrat Lex Herndon and Democrat Max Baucus is leading partisan contest for district judge Republican John Brundhauserare Kaimin Wednesday, November 8, 1972 Volume 75, No. 21 the race for the eight House seats 9,961 to 9,438. leading the contest for the two with 14,446 votes and Republican constable positions, with 10,495 George Turman is second with In the race for the county com­ and 10,312 votes respectively. Leo 11,271 votes. missioner seat, Democrat Lud Might, a Republican, received Instructor blasts faculty rating Browman leads Republican Lester 10,157 votes. The other top six candidates in the Madsen 11.488 to 8.194. By Rich Bangs House race received votes as Montana Kaimin Managing Editor follows: Democrat GeriSvieve Spaulding Herdon, however, may not accept II holds a substantial edge with the job. A television report last Assistant Professor of Art Arnold Cherullo has protested faculty Gary Niles Kimble, Democrat, 11,641 votes over Republican night quoted the 20-year-old evaluation of his capabilities by Walter Hook, senior faculty member of 10,923 , votes; Bill Norman, Herbert Schatz with 7,408 votes (or Herndon as saying he had taken a the Department of Art. Democrat, 10,264 votes; Gary the position of county auditor. better-paying position elsewhere. Cherullo placed a full page advertisement in the today’s Montana Kaimin (page 9) protesting what he calls an unfair system of evaluation of junior faculty members in the department by senior faculty members. 17 UM STUDENTS INVOLVED The advertisement includes a letter by Cherullo to the art department faculty which states that Cherullo was disappointed with the brievity of Indian protestors still hold BIA building the evaluations and that he felt “the majority of the senior faculty have acted both unporfessionally and irresponsibly as evidenced by the Compiled by the all efforts to oust them from the Old Person.” Plumage added that perfunctory charatcer of their evaluations.” Montana Kalmin BIA building unless their demands four of the seventeen UM Indian and the Associated Press to talk to Secretary of State Rogers students in the BIA building are Cherullo also says in the letter his idea of the evaluations was to "open Morton or President Nixon were from Old Person’s reservation. the lines of communications” within the art department and “bury the The seventeen University of Mon­ met. negative image of our department as a rumor mill.” tana Indian students, among the Dallas Howard, a tribal council All actions by the UM group are Also reprinted in the advertisement is the evaluation of Cherullo by Hook, estimated 600 protesting Indians member of Ft. Belknap fully supported by UM Indian who recommended that Cherullo not be considered for contract renewal. barricaded in the Bureau of Indian reservation, said his reservation Studies, Plumage said. Affairs (BIA) building in does not support Old Person’s Hook based his recommendations on what he called Cherullo’s lack of Washington D.C., intend to remain According to Stiffarm, Indians oc­ remarks.