More conflict looms £1 Oaucbo before Leg Council Associated Students, University of California, Santa Barbara Monday, April 19, 1965 By PETE YOUNG election ballot, it would still go Volume 45, Number 66 Editor into effect next year if approved. Bitter controversy over the A special election would have proposal that would convert to be called early in the fall UCSB student government to to fill the completely new posts the commission form may erupt the plan would create, Cook Candidates hit campaign again at tomorrow night's said. Legislative Council meeting. The opposition apparently is Chances that the commission working on the assumption that proposal will go before the the plan will be less likely to trail; apathy strikes again voters this week—before next pass in the general election, week's general election—are when the voter turnout is By PETE YOUNG the same fall special election. But shifts in Council repre­ almost dead, but the schem e's highest. Editor The commission plan would backers may mount one last sentation could come in the RHA Electioneering for 17 AS mean another election, since it and Greek areas, where the effort tomorrow night. OPPOSITION BET posts and nine class offices be­ totally revised the make-up of Constitution leaves room for in­ They will have to muster a They are also betting that gins today. Council, calling for Interest creasing or decreasing the three-quarters vote in Council their views will be given a much Hitting the campaign trail in rather than unit representation. number of representatives. It if they are to overturn a Ju­ wider hearing during the cam­ earnest will be 42 candidates, dicial Committee ruling that the paigning, during which the pro­ provides only that there w ill be whose hopes will be realized or STILL TO COME a minimum of two representa­ student legislature does not posal is expected to become a dashed A pril 28, general elec­ Still to come is the reap­ tives for RHA and the Greek or­ have the right to set the date leading issue. tion day. portionment ruling of Elections ganizations. of the election in which the Four of the five AS p resi­ Meanwhile, charges that poli­ Committee Co-chairmen Gary Any shifts in representation scheme will go before the dential candidates appear to be tical apathy has again struck Jones and Marilou M elczer. will be achieved by changing the voters. opposed to the commission the grass-roots campus level Soon they w ill decide how number of representatives-at- scheme— at least to its imme­ have been renewed with the many representatives each of large. POLITICAL STRUGGLE diate inauguration. And those notation that the 42 candidates the base living units— the re ­ This year’s Council makeup Behind the uproar— only the candidates, the opposition who have joined the race for sidence halls, sororities and latest in a series of contro­ notes, w ill speak to thousands includes four reps-at-large, political posts represent a fraternities and non-affiliated four non-affiliated reps, four versies that have rocked Coun­ of students before the election. near-record low. housing— will get. RHA reps and the two Greek cil— is a political struggle that Optimism among the change­ The AS Constitution provides reps. has escalated into a conflict over’s supporters appearstobe RECORD LOW that proportioning of unit repre­ over constitutional provisions. flagging. But they remain deter­ sentatives shall be carried out THE CANDIDATES Politics crept into the con­ A glance at the record books mined that the voters w ill get a before every spring general In the presidential race are stitutional realm when those reveals that only twice in AS chance to decide the issue this election on the basis of a base Rick Schwartz, Ken Kha- Council members who back the history have there been less year. constituency number. chigian, Eric Roth, Dick Van commission scheme enjoying candidates— in 1962 and last Atta and Ronald Colburn. Seek­ a strong majority, decided that year, only 37 students seeking N O NAFFILIATES LOST? ing the vice-presidential spot a special election should settle political fortune in both in­ The likelihood that the non- are David Forman and Rick the issue once and for all. stances. affiliates, even though their Sigler. But AS President Ron Cook, Only once In recent memory numbers have greatly increased Other candidates for AS and who is opposed to immediate has their been an abundance of during the past year, will gain class positions are: conversion to the commission candidates— the year being a proportionate increase in M E N ’S R E P -A T -L A R G E — plan and who has condemned the 1963, when a record 66 names Legislative Council represen­ El wain Mart son, Joe Mac Lei sh hasty manner in which it was appeared on the ballot. tation is practically nilbecause and Jay Jeffcoai. introduced, took the matter to the Constitution provides that WOMEN’S REP-AT-LARGE- Judicial Committee. He claimed A PARADOX there shall be four non- Kay Ashbrook and Francie that the determination of when Paradoxically, a record- affiliated representatives—no Alexander. the election shall be held rests tying five presidential candi­ more and no less. with Constitution and B y-law s dates have gained spots on this (Continued on p. 4, col. 3) Chairman David Hunsaker. y ear’s ballot. But the final sign-up sheet And Hunsaker, a staunch op­ KERR SPEAKS released this week by Elections ponent of the commission Committee reveals there will scheme, has indicated he will be several uncontested races. rule that the proposal go before And, for the first time in the voters c h i the general spring election ballot A p ril 28. memory, no one is seeking the Meyer report off till May AS secretary post. By PETE YOUNG not even then,” University P r e ­ J-COM RULING Judicial Committee— noting SPECIAL ELECTION Editor sident C lark K err said in a that the AS Constituton p ro­ Those posts unfilled in the Ahead for those student acti­ recent interview with EL GAU- vides that “ the chairman of the general election wiU be con­ vists who have long awaited a CHO. Constitution and B y -law s Com ­ tested in a special election in wholesale revision of Uni­ K err noted that action p ro ­ mittee shall arrange for an the early part of the fall versity-wide policies is— more bably will not be taken for election to be held within 15 semester. waiting. several months after the Meyer days’’ after initiative signature If the commission form of The Meyer Committee, abody report is presented to the Re­ requirements are met-ruled the government scheme, apparently set up before Christm as to re ­ gents. Council action in setting the scheduled to go on the general view policies governing student election date was unconstitu­ election ballot, passes, the political and social action, CONFLICT ONRULES 9................. 8............... 7. tional. chances are that all Leg Council ’probably will not report to the “There is a lot of conflicting General election A p ril 28. But J-COM also ruled, Chair­ posts w ill go up for grabs in Regents until May and maybe opinion among the Regents about man Bernie Kamins said, in an what the rules ought to b e ,” the opinion that “ carries no legal UC President said. authority,” that Hunsaker bears J-Com halts grad entry in ASUC And, he added, “ there is also a “ moral obligation” to call the the question of how much deli­ election “as soon as possible” By BARRY WINOGRAD w ill remain the same, at least until next fall beration there should be over because the commission initia­ City Editor when new constitutional amendment elections can the proposals.” tive was signed by some 1,200 The two-month old movement for graduate be held. In any case, K err said, the students. student admission to Berkeley’s ASUC fell flat A “ freedom ballot” was taken for three statewide Academic Council and Opponents of the commission on its face April 8 when a decision was made that days at the start of the week. Conducted by the Senate and the faculty Commit­ scheme are confident that the eliminates the possibility of grad student entry Graduate Coordinating Committee, one of two tee on Academic Freedom , plan’s backers w ill not be able this semester. groups pressing for grad entry, the unofficial elec­ which is chaired by UCSB pro­ to gather the three-quarters Judicial Committee’s holding that any elec­ tion drew 8,000 votes - 5,000 undergraduates fessor Homer Swander, “ should •vote needed to buck suc­ tions for grad representatives to the student and 3,000 grads. \ be consulted.” cessfully the J-Com ruling. senate is unconstitutional, dashed the hopes of Ten GCC “candidates” were elected and a Council has been split over many campus political leaders that some way constitutional amendment was overwhelmingly ap­ FURTHER COMMENTS the issue since it was first could be found to resolve the long-standing dilem ­ proved, but the turnout of 31 percent was far The University President, at proposed a month ago. A ma at the northern UC site. below the 50 percent figure the Regents demanded UCSB for Charter Day cere­ majority has been favorable to Earlier this semester amendments were before compulsory fees can be set. monies before the Easter break, the plan, but a staunch minority passed that made graduates full AS members, also commented on: w as able to prevent Council but the Board of Regents late in March held the CRISIS COMMITTEE • Berkeley Chancellor Mey- from approving it, thus forcing election null and void because substantial m ajor­ Before J-Com gave its decision, the ASUC erson’s recent recommendation the initiative petition.