BARRY BLUESTONE CARL COHEN EUGENE WON I DIANE LEBEDEFF SHERRY MILLER GARY CUNNINGHAM SCOTT CROOKS DON FILIP BARRY BLUESTONE CARL COHEN EUGENE WON DIANE LEBEDEFF SHERRY MILLER GARY CUNNINGHAM SCOTT CROOKS DON FILIP THE PHOENIX PROJECT & MILITARY RESEARCH See Editorial Page ic, r 5k Cli rnx aiiu ZY COLDER High-42 Low-26 Showers changing to snow flurries Seventy-Three Years of Editorial Freedom SIX PAGES VOL. LXXIV, No. 124 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1964 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES f Many Irregularities Blot Election Results 6000 Ballots Stolen Tuesday Night; Poll Workers Advise How To Vote S s s ,1 4 Several alleged irregularities Council election procedures provo] ing the validity of the election. At least one irregularity is a] Student Government Council balk Athletic Seat To Weinberg In Close Vote By JOHN WEILER Thomas Weinberg, '66, scored an upset victory yesterday as he, became the first non-athlete elect- e d to the Board in Control of In- tercollegiate Athletics within mem- ory. Weinberg polled 1,182 votes in defeating basketball star Cazzie Russell, '66Ed, 962; Charles Pas- cal, '66, 280, and Stephen Smith, '66, 167, for a two-year term. In the election for three seats to the Board in Control of Stu- dent Publications, Fred Russell Kramer, '64, with 1,975 votes;: Michael E. Lewis, Grad, with 1,449 votes, and John Lorenzo, '65, with' 1,221 ballots, were seated. John Ewing, '64, who received 1,220 votes and write-in candidate, Richard Kraut, '66, with 322 votes were unsuccessful in gaining po- sitions on the Board. There were 2,658 ballots cast. USNSA-Orrin In the election for United States National Student Association dele- gates, Suzanne Orrin, '65, receiv- ed 2,008 votes; Alan Jones, '66, olled 1,872, and Ronald Gott- schalk, 65, received 1,799 to be elected. ' The remaining seat will be filled by an appointment by SGC. In order to be elected as USNSA delegate a candidate had to receive 1,679 votes which is 60 per cent of 2,798, the total cast. The referendum to ratify the new Michigan Union constitution was approved by a vote of 1,880 to 583. It passed by 714 votes. The two-thirds quota was set at 1,- 166. The new Union constitution changes the Union Board of Di- rectors to 10 voting members with two ex-lofficios as compared to the present 9 voting members. Student representation on- the Union Board is reduced from 10 to three and the vice-president for student affairs and vice-president for business and finance will be- come ex-officio members without vote. The Union's general manager is added without vote. Davis-LSA President For president of the LSA col- lege, Jan Davis, '65, polled 746 to be elected president. Michael Bixby, '65, received 551. James Bronner, '65, was elect- ed without contention to vice-pres- ident and Frank Lornberg was in yesterday's Student Government ked a rash of complaints challeng- Pparently due to the theft of 6000 ots Tuesday night. However, SGC's redentials and Rules Committee determined last night that none of the complaints warrantedin- validation of the election. The complaints included: -All polling places were not opened at the same time; some were not opened at all. -Ballots for election of literary college officers allowed all students in the literary college to vote, in- stead of the usual qualification that only students of junior stand- ing may vote. -Assertions that several poll- workers gave advice to students on how to cast their ballot. Posters Destroyed -Destruction of posters and campaign materials on the Diag. -Unfair procedures in the use of quadrangle mailboxes for dis- tribution of campaign materials. -Denial to some students of the right to cast votes for write-in candidates for the Board in Con- trol of Student Publications. -Denial to some male students the right. to vote for members of the Union Board of Directors, even though no candidates were run- ning. Absent 45 Minutes It is unknown when the SGC ballots were taken from the Coun- cil office in the SAB. Elections Director Charles Cooper, '66, said he was absent from the locked of- fice for approximately 45 minutes Tuesday evening. Cooper did not discover the theft until Wednesday morning after he began distributing the packets containing election materials to the molls. Only SGC ballots were missing. Since there were 4000 additional ballots reserved for later distribu- tion in the SAB, most polls were able to begin operations before 9 a.m. Supplementary ballots were or- dered immediately after the dis- covery of the theft but were not available for distribution until approximately 1 p.m. Although the late opening of the polls is attributed to the theft, the failure of some polls to open was allegedly due to a lack of poll workers. Cohen Next; Won, Lebedeff Follow Miller, Fifth; Cunningham, Sixth; Crooks, Filip Take Seventh, Eighth By MARY LOU BUTCHER Despite the theft of 6000 Student Government Council ballots Tuesday night, 3,872 voters elected eight new Council members yesterday. The first successful candidate, Barry Bluestone, '66, was elected on the fifth ballot after accruing 471 votes to sur- pass the required quota of 430; it took six more ballots to elect a second new SGC member. Robert Grody, '66, was dropped on the first ballot followed by Stanley Nadel, '66, dropped on the second. The next candi- date to be dropped was Rich- - ard Keller Simon, '66, on the third ballot. THIS WAS THE SCENE IN THE Michigan Union ballroom last night as hopeful candidates, their followers and count-night officials waited through 16 ballots for the final SGC results. Various board elections were also held. I CEASE-FIRE DIFFERENCES: Talks Flounder; Malaysia To Go to UN BANGKOK (M)-A ministerial conference on the Malaysian crisis fell apart yesterday and Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman announced Malaysia will take its dispute with Indonesia to the United Nations. The snag in renewed talks among Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia was differences of opinion about the Jan. 26 cease- fire arranged by United States Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy. A statement issued by the Malaysians appeared to be a warning that' they consider the truce is off. Malaysia demanded that with- drawal of 400 or so pro-Indonesian guerrillas from Malaysian Borneo be made the first order of business. Indonesia rejected this demand. President Sukarno's delegation in- sisted that such a withdrawal be accompanied by a simultaneous settlement of political issues, such as its demand for a plebiscite t determine whether the people in the Borneo states of Saban and Sarawak really want to be part of Malaysia. Indonesia and the Philippines, which is pressing an old claim to Sabah, were never satisfied with the affirmative finding of a United Nations team headed by Laurence V. Michelmore of the United States last summer. The three-nation conference, the second here within a month, broke up abruptly after two ne- gotiating sessions that lasted a total of less than four hours. Out of the discussion came only one agreement: A supervisory team from Thai- land-mediating in the dispute- will head to Borneo as soon as possible to check on the truce, which Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak of Malaysia charged the Indonesians "have violated every day." A supervisory team from Thai- land-mediating in the dispute- will head to Borneo as soon as possible to check on the truce, which Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak of Malaysia charged the Indonesians "have violated every day." A statement by his delegation said Malaysia "cannot negotiate at gunpoint." It summed up the situ- ation thus: "In view of 'the ineffectiveness of President Sukarno's cease-fire order and the failure of the In- donesian government to give an undertaking at this meeting that the cease-fire would be truly effec- tive, the Malayasian government has no alternative but to recon- sider its position and to take such measures as are necessary for the defense of its territorial integrity and for the preservation of law and order." That could mean a renewal of armed action. Philippine Foreign Secretary Salvalor P. Lopez and Foreign Minister Subandrio of Indonesia said the door remains open for a settlement. Lopez described the1 situation as a recess. Subandrio said he would attend still an- other conference if the atmos- phere was right. But Razak said it was a breakoff and he does not know what will happen now. King Plans New Assault MONTGOMERY, Ala. )-In- tegration leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., announced yesterday a five-point assault on segregation in Alabama, "the chief target of our program for 1964." The program, which King said would be put into effect in com- munities throughout the state, was approved at a meeting of about 200 Negro leaders from over the state. The program: -To intensify voter drives "to increase the number of Negro vot- ers in. this election year." -Mass mobilization to secure "the right of a ballot for every Negro." King said the group would employ every non-violent tech- nique to insure this point. -A campaign aimed at "buying goods only where we can work." -A push for passage of the pending civil rights bill. -An appeal to Congress to limit the number of Alabama congress- men to "conform to the actual voting population until the vote is extended to every person of color." This is a "statewide all-out ef- fort of our civil rights forces against segregation and discrimi- nation in Alabama, with Mont- Halt March On Capitol ANNAPOLIS, Md. (P) - The) leaders of student demonstrations in Princess Anne, Md., said after a meeting with Gov. J. Millard, Tawes yesterday that demonstra- tions will be halted in that eastern shore town. John Wilson, 20, a student at Maryland State College, said Tawes had promised to use "all the powers of his office" to get all the state included in the Mary- land public accommodations law. He said Tawes and Colonel Carey Jarman, commander of the state police, also promised there would be no more use of police dogs to break up demonstrations unless they reach the riot stage. Demonstrators Halt Sit-In A group of about 60 demonstra- tors who had staged a sit-in out- side the governor's office left after Wilson made his statement. Wilson said the governor had told them there will be a special session of the legislature, probably March 11. "Sen. (Harry T.) Phoebus has promised to introduce the public accommodations bill," he said. Phoebus is the Republican sen- ator from Somerset County, of which Princess Anne is the county seat. Delegate Exemption Under Maryland tradition, dele- gations from any county usually can have themselves exempted from a statewide bill if they choose. Wilson was asked if he had got- ten any assurance from the three- man Democratic delegation in the House of Delegates that they would have the county on a bill. "Not at this time," he answered. Rally on Steps The demonstrators broke off from a larger group which had held an integration rally on the steps of the capitol. " They attempted to reach the governor's office, but were stopped by state police and sat down in Richard Shortt, '66, was dropped on the fourth ballot. Elected on the 11th ballot were Carl Cohen, '66, and Eu- gene Won,' 66, with votes total- ing 473 and 423, respectively. a Dropped on the sixth and sev- enth ballots were David Block, '66,1 and Tony Chiu, '66. John Reece,, '65, was dropped on the eighth ballot. 9th Ballot Thomas Copi, '66, was then eliminated from the race on the ninth ballot, after which Stephen Berkowitz, '65, was dropped on the 10th ballot. Diane Lebedeff, '65, elected on the 12th ballot, attained 427 votes to bypass the necessary total of 408 votes for that ballot. SGC Administrative Vice-Presi- dent Sherry Miller,''65, was elect- ed with 447 votes on the 14th bal- lot-completing the selection of Council members who will hold full term seats. Ronald Martinez, '65, was drop- ped on the 13th ballot. Serve Half Terms The remaining three candidates, elected on the 14th, 15th and 16th ballots, will serve half terms. SGC incumbent Gary Cunning- ham, '66, tallied 397 votes to win election on the 14th ballot. In- cumbent Scott Crooks, '65, follow- ed with a count of 414 on the 15th ballot. The 16th and final ballot elect- ed Don Filip, '65, with a total of 443 votes. Chad Gray, '66L, was the last candidate to be dropped, tallying 337 votes. Bluestone commented that with the low voter turnout, "I don't think anyone, including SGC, has a mandate in this election." He said that he felt he "would have to back the Student Govern- ment Reform Union's (SGRU) proposition of a study group to see if there isn't a better form for SGC." In a cut and dried campaign, the SGRU platform centered chiefly around the question of the future structure and function of Council. SGRU has proposed the establishment of a student-faculty committee to investigate alter- native forms of student govern- ment. In particular, SGRU candidates stressed the possibility of estab- will work with all the, Council members to establish a more meaningful student government. Cohen added. "I will work for the establishment of a constituent assembly to facilitate intra-cam- pus communications." Won also supported the estab- lishment of a committee in line with the SGRU proposal to study the "whole area of student gov- ernment." Won added that he hopes Coun- cil will adopt "more rigid election rules for next year so that voters will have confidence in those elected." Hare Voting SGC elections are tabulated ac- cording to the Hare System. In order for any candidate to have been elected on the first ballot, he would have had to accrue a quota of 431 votes. The first-ballot quota was determined by dividing the total number of votes cast by one more than the number of Council vacancies. For each succeeding ballot, a new quota is established in the same manner. Since no candidates were elected on the first four ballots, the quota remained at 431 for the first three and at 430 for the fourth and fifth. As Grody, Nadel, Simon and Shortt were dropped, their votes were re- distributed according to the sec- ond preferences, indicated by the voters. After a candidate's election, the margin of votes he received over the necessary quota was re- distributed among the remaining candidates. Merit Scholars Set University In Tenth Place A recently published list places the University tenth a m o n g schools most often chosen by Na- tional Merit Scholarship winners. The University is the only state school highly ranked. With 128 winners between 1956, when the awards were first intro- duced, and 1963, the University ranks behind Harvard (591), MIT (379), Stanford (220), Yale (198), Princeton (197), Radcliffe (193), Rice (181), Cal Tech (154), and Swarthmore (133), DONDI TAKES THE FIELD: Write-'Ins Give Some Cheer Who is Dondi Barbour? This was the question asked last night-Dondi Barbour received 24 first place votes for Student Government Council. Jerry Levin, '65, Scott Towel, '02PH, and Ted Bomb, the old fraternity dog, fol- lowed with seven votes each. Others who received write-ins included Washboard Willie, Warner Rice, Thunder of Chi, Sidney Beck, and Puff the magic dragon.' But Thomas Smithson, '65, executive vice-president of SGC,p