Candidates vie for state offices degree from the University of South Currently, the majority of South with their party's gubernatorial auditor and is presently owner of the Dakota at Vermillion. Dakota voters are not informed about candidate due to a law passed by the Fall River Abstract Company. The Republican candidate for Running for the position of state the 14 candidates running for the state legislature and the people of treasurer in South Dakota on the seven constitutional offices including South Dakota. attorney general, William Janklow, Democratic ticket is Tom Maher, lieutenant governor, attorney Wollman graduated from Doland graduated from Flandreau High School before receiving his un- Pierre native. Maher has a Bachelor general, state treasurer, com- High School and subsequently Huron of Arts degree in political science and missioner of school and public lands, College. He was a teacher at Doland dergraduate and legal education at a Master of Arts from the University state auditor, secretary of state and High School for three years until the University of South Dakota. of Virginia. He also obtained a law public utilities commissioner. The beginning his present occupation as a Janklow has been a practicing at- degree from Cornell University in purpose of this article is to inform the farmer in the Hitchcock area. torney for eight years. During that Ithaca, New York. Maher was the first voters of the past experiences of Wollman has served six years in the period he was chief trial lawyer in the director of the Securities and Con- each of the candidates running for state senate, including one as office of Attorney General Sande for sumer Protection Agency in South the statewide offices. minority leader and two as majority 16 months. Dakota. Harvey Wollman, Democratic leader. Democrat Kermit Sande, Huron Republican candidate David Volk is candidate for lieutenant governor, Clay, Hot Springs native, has eight native, is the incumbent running for running for re-election to the post of and Eddie Clay, the Republican years experience in the South Dakota the re-election to the attorney state treasurer. Volk graduated from candidate, will run on the same ticket Legislature. He has been a former city general post. Sande received his law Mitchell High School and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northern. While attending college, he served two years as field ad- ministrator for Representative Ben Reifel. The state auditors race is a contest between Democrat Jack Kolbo and Republican incumbent Alice Kundert. xponent Kolbo is a graduate of Claremont High School and Northern State College. He taught school for nine years in South Shore and Watertown October 31, 1974 Volume 74 Issue 9 Northern State College—Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401 before serving in the 1973 and 1974 South Dakota State Legislature. Kolbo is currently running a restaurant in Watertown. Opera company stages production Ms. Kundert, incumbent Republican state auditor, has a background in city, county and state government, The Minnesota Opera Company artists in preparing for a production. sistent emphasis on contemporary having served as clerk of courts and will present "Opera Without Its title indicates the Company's firm lyric theatre. The Company began registrar of deeds in county govern- Elephants" under the sponsorship of belief that opera, as a vital, growing operations in 1963 under the wing of ment, before being elected as state Northern State College and the South entity in contemporary musical the Walker Art Center of Min- auditor in 1968. Dakota Arts Council. The presen- theatre, can be successfully produced neapolis, an institution widely known Joyce Hazeltine is running for tation will be held on Nov. 4 at 8:15 without all the trappings and for its emphasis on contemporary Lorna Herseth's present position as p.m. at the Johnson Center. "elephants" of traditional grand visual arts. Three years later, a group secretary of state. Ms. Hazeltine has The presentation of "Opera opera. of young American performers was been a former teacher and now Without Elephants" is open to the The format of "Opera Without engaged and molded into a cohesive manages Raven Industries in Sioux public at no cost. On Tuesday, Nov. 5, Elephants" is flexible, and personnel ensemble under the direction of Falls. She has also served as the at 9:30 a.m. there will be a workshop for the presentation varies from show stage director H. Wesley Balk and chairman of the President's Council in the Johnson Center main theatre. to show, but the basis for each music director Philip Brunelle. continued on page 7, column 4 "Opera Without Elephants" is an performance remains the same. exciting combination of en- Pianist, narrator and singers explore tertainment and information, created the wide range of improvisatory and by the Minnesota Opera Company to stylistic exercises regularly used by demonstrate the various music and the Company's ensemble of singers. theatre techniques employed by their The Company maintains a con- Policy change affects students by Mary Krakow of these policies had been previously An announcement by Dr. Richard recommended by both the SA Board Van Beek, dean of admissions and of Directors and the Faculty Senate. records, that the administration has At the meeting, Curt Knudsen, accepted the Student Association Student Association President, Board of Director's recommendation reported on the Tenure Committee for changes in the grading policy meeting. He announced that a form highlighted the October 28 meeting has been drawn up which could be of the Board of Directors. attached to teacher evaluations done According to the new policy, when by the students at the end of the fall a student withdraws from a class semester. This would allow the within the accepted deadline he will student an opportunity to state only receive a W, signifying with- whether he feels the teacher he is draw, contrary to the WP or WF, with- evaluating should be recommended draw passing or withdraw failing, for tenure. On the form tenure would that was previously given. The with- be defined and the implications of it draw grade will no longer affect the stated. This form will have to be student's grade point average. approved by the committee before it Also, under the new policy, no can be implemented. student can be suspended for having Mike Weisgram, commissioner of The "Coffee and Good Times House," sponsored by the Lutheran Campus poor grades. There will be a complete entertainment, activities and Ministry, opened Sunday night at the Aquinas Center. Pictured in the foreground elimination of the suspension policy programs, reported the Union are Deb Luken, Hazel sophomore, and Ed Welch, Webster sophomore. In back are as previously enforced by Northern. It Operations Board lost approximately Connie Behnke, Britton sophomore; Sue Bolstac, Arlington freshman; Rachel $6,130 on the Jim Stafford concert. will be replaced by an open retention Jacobson, Veblen freshman; and Judy Miller, Watertown Senior. Plans are to Because of this loss, further activities policy. However, no student that was continue the coffee house two or three times a month. Future coffee house for this semester have been curtailed, suspended by a different school will meetings will include presentations ef,poetry, drama and pantomime, as well as be allowed to enroll at Northern. Both including the proposed Spook Night. musical entertainment. THE EXPONENT Page Two October 31, 1974 McGovern visits campus; reacts to student questions by Joani Nelson who are asking for your vote on our Senator George McGovern visited total records and total qualifications." Northern Tuesday when he made his He said the issues that should be last stop in Aberdeen before the central to the Senate race are those election. While here, he discussed the such as the food-producing role of importance of anticipating future South Dakota in a hungry world and problems as well as answering the fact that "we're destroying students' questions. oceans, inland waterways and air One of Senator McGovern's that sustains life." greatest concerns is the kind of world He quoted John F. Kennedy who, in which today's students will have to during his campaign in 1960, stressed live in the future. the importance of agricultural South "I think the most interesting thing Dakota in a world of "desperately in this campaign is that the issues hungry" people. However, Senator well be dealing with ten years from McGovern added, "We've now now have hardly been discussed," he reached the point where we should commented. shift from direct food grants to "There are three central questions technical assistance in our foreign aid that will have to be answered within programs." the next ten years, - Senator Next, Senator McGovern spoke on McGovern continued. "The first and an issue of much importance to many most important is the challenge of students at Northern; he fielded a how we can produce enough food to question about what Congress would survive. The second question , is that do to override a possible Presidential of how we can redeem ourselves veto of his bill to increase the from nuclear destruction at a time educational benefits of Vietnam when nuclear weapons proliferate all veterans. over the world. The third question is Senator McGovern. stated that he how to stop the contamination of our was grateful that he had used the G.I. oceans, waterways and air before life Bill while earning his Ph.D. at Nor- George McGovern becomes uninhabitable on our thwestern. He also advocated that planet." Vietnam veterans deserve benefits at Senator McGovern explained that least as generous as World War II The EXPONENT will be published on Friday, Nov. 7, to facilitate the all of these questions require an veterans received.