PAGE TWO
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1954
PAGE TWO THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, DECEMBER 5,1954
SL
n'didates
ive
Student Government
iews
Ron Boorstein
SL Comptroller; Student Book
Exchange Treasurer; SL Cine-
ma Guild Treasurer; Junior IFC;
Phi Eta Sigma; Alp'a Phi Ome-
ga. ('57).
* * *
1. No. When political districts are
determined, an important factor
is the cohesiveness of interest that
will exist in that district in order
to make it a single unit. I can see
no such cohesion of interest nor
logical reasoning behind political
units within a single college cam-
pus.
2. No. By and large I oppose the
making of mere resolutions by a
body which is intended to be of a
legislative nature.
3. Yes. These parties can and will
help mobilize student support of
many crucial issues, which is ne-
cessary to effective go--ernment. In
the long run a mobilization of any
student opinion will aid SL even
if it is only to the extent of arous-
ing interest in our student gov-
ernment.
4. No.
5. Yes, service functions are one
of the most important parts of stu-
dent government, especially on our
campus while SL still lacks its
proper power.
6. Yes, without SGC the SL will
remain too weak on this campus.
This should be the aim of every
student on this campus as well as
the aim of every member of SL .. .
THE STUDENT LEGISLATURE
Is and will remain too weak an or-
ganization to be effective on this
campus . . . unless the Student
Government Council plan or some
comparable arrangement can be
made by which this student govern-
ment will become a smaller more
cohesive body invested with the
power necessary for the enforce-
ment of the demands and decisions
of our student body. This is my
primary ambition with respect to
our Student Legislature.
Joan Bryan
SL Culture and Education Com-
mittee, Chairman; Literary Col-
lege Conference Steering Com-
mittee, Chairman. (CSP, '56, In-
cumbent.)
1. The members of the S.G.C.
should have the power to enlarge
the organization if they deem it
necessary, as I belie--- they may,
since it is only an eighteen member
body; eleven of whom are elected
by the campus at large.
2. The S.G.C. should be given a
firm financial basis to insure its
stability and also be given ulti-
mate financial control of the other
campus organizations whose ac-
tivities fall within the scope of
student government.
3. I believe that campus politi-
cal parties are worth trying be-
cause they would encourage the
election of candidates on the basis
of issues rather than personality-
and this would, in turn, make for a
responsible and purposive student
government,
4. If there is a great deal of stu-
dent opinion on such issues as sev-
erance pay or faculty suspensions
then any student legislature -worthy
of the name has the right to take
a stand on such issues.
6. I think that the basic ideas of
the plan, that is 1) to incorporate
the powers of the Student Affairs
Committee with those of the Stu-
dent Legislature and 2) the inclu-
sion of the heads of the major
campus organizations on the stu-
Listed here are statements of opinion and policy made
by the 34 candidates in the Student Legislature elections Dec.
8 and 9.
The candidates were. asked the following six questions:
1) Are you in favor of a district system for electing SL
representatives?
2) Do you believe the Student Legislature should take
stands on discrimination in private housing and organiza-
tions?
3) Are you in favor of campus political parties?
4) Do you believe SL should take stands on issues affect-
ing the student body only indirectly? (i.e. severance pay,
faculty suspensions, etc.)
5) Should SL carry on service projects? (i.e. Home-
coming Dance, Cinema Guild Board, Student Book Exchange,
etc.)
6) Do you favor the proposed Student Government
Council plan for student government?
Listed according to the numbers of the questions are the
candidates' answers. Following the answers are general state-
ments.
Joe Collins
Representative, Scott House
Council; IHC Council. ('58).
* * *
1. Yes.
2. No opinion.
3. No.
4. No.
5. Yes,
6. Yes.
IF ELECTED THERE are three
issues which I shall promote. The
most important of these is the
proposed S t u d e n t Government
Council. It is my opinion that with
the combined influence of the ma-
jor student organizations on cam-
pus, the Student Government Coun-
cil will be better equipped to han-
dle the problems of government
than the present Student Legisla-
ture.
Secondly I believe that the Dis-
trict System of electing represen-
tatives would greatly add to the
dent government are both very
good. However, I sincerely believe
that in order to make this a truly
effective student government-two
changes should be made in the
plan once it is in effect:
* * *
I AGREE SUBSTANTIALLY
with the platform of the Common
Sense Party.
I believe students should be al-
lowed to hear any speaker of their
choice, that the housing situation
in Ann Arbor must and can be im-
proved, that the Michigan House
Plan is a sound plan and should
be the basis for future housing,
that faculty members should not
be dismissed on the basis of politi-
cal belief, that a Student Activi-
ties center is essential and that
Student Government, in order to
be meaningful, must be strong, ac-
tive, representative and respected.
prestige of the Student Legislature,
for it would give representation to
every interest group on campus..
And finally I believe that the Stu-
dent Legislature should be sup-
ported solely through money re-
ceived from tuition. This would al-
low the Student Legislature to act
independent of time consuming
fund raising activities.
Chariiie Butt tn
SL Public Relations Commit-
tee; NSA Coordinator; SL Inter-
national Committee; Sigma Al- -
pha Eta; League Community
Service Committee. (CSP, '56, In-
cumbent).
* * *
Shirlee Clark
House President; Cinema Guild
Board; I-Hop, Programs Chair-
man. ('56, Incumbent).
S * *
1. Yes. If a system of districting
this campus could be found, I feel
that this would promote more re-
sponsible representation of stu-
dent opinion.
2. Since this would come under
SL's power of expressing student
opinion, it should only take action
on such issues if student opinion
is strong.
3. Yes, if they serve to create
campus interest and provide quali-
fied candidates and if there is more
than one party givinJ students def-
inite programs from which to
choose.
4. I believe that SL should work
to alleviate such conditions when
they exist but that such action
should be taken carefully so that
the positions of all people involved
are taken into consideration and
the solution is in the best interest
of all concerned.
5. Yes, because such things are
a service to the campus. However,j
I do not believe that this should
be SL's primary function; nor do
I believe SL should have to de-
pend upon these projects for sub-
sistence.
6. I favor SGC in the theory that
it would be a stronger, more ef-
fective student government due to
1. Yes. I am in favor of a dis-
trict system if one can be devised
to work by proportional represen-
tation and yet not eliminate the
possibility of expression of minor-
ity opinion. Perhaps a solution
would be proportional representa-
tion coupled with periods at SL
meetings when any student would
have the right to speak.
2. Yes, SL should take stands
and endeavor to help existing
groups work on these problems. It
should not take stands and initi-
ate action without joining with
groups affected by these stands.
3. Yes. As a member of the CSP
I feel the party system is the only
effective way at present to have
candidates responsible to carry
out a specific platform.
4. Yes, if there is adequate stu-
dent interest and opinion in these
areas, SL must take stands as a
representative body.
5. Yes.
6. Yes. I am in favor of SGC only
if it guarantees more student
backing than the present SL, and
if regental approval betters stu-
dent, faculty and administration re-
lationships. If SGC is what the
students desire (after considera-
tion of all its aspects) I shall en-
deavor to work for it upon its incip-
ience. However, I fully realize the
inadequacy of its size and the ne-
cessary chance in student govern-
ment duties as result of this. If
SGC is adopted, it will not be able
to function effectively until a pe-
riod of time has elapsed; and I
regental approval. However, I feel
that SL is a structurally superior
and more representative form of
student government. Perhaps, as
many people claim, SL has been
weak; however, no student govern-
ment can be strong without the
support of the stucents.
OSTENSIBLY THE MAIN issue
in this election is that of SL versus
SGC. However, an even greater is-
sue in this or any other election is
that of campus support of their
student government.
Believing that apathy results
from lack of knowledge, my plat-
form, then, is education. For
knowledge creates interest, and
only through interest will student
government gain strength.
Cal Covell
Boy's State Representative;
Eagle Scout (CSP, '58E).
* s *
1. No. The district system would
not give minority groups a repre-
sentative on S.L.
2. Yes. The shortage of housing
is no excuse for allowing discrim-
ination in campus housing units.
The SL, as a student representa-
tive group, should express stu-
dent opinion on this matter.
3. Yes. Campus political parties
serve to arouse student interest in
campus politics and to give the
voters a greater knowledge of the
candidates for office.
4. Yes. The SL represents student
opinion and the students have opin-
ions which should be heard and
considered on matters which affect
the student body only indirectly.
5. Yes. The SL is the students'
servant, as well as representative,
and should carry out the projects
the student body desires to have
done.
6. No. This plan provides for an
eleven man council. The present
SL gets most of its work done
through committees. On an eleven
man council there wouldn't be
enough people to make up the com-
mittees. The SGC plan also calls
for the presidents of the different
student organizations (Union, IFC,
League, etc.) to hold positions on
the council. These leaders would
be too busy to do a good job on
the SGC. The SGC plan, because
Bob Kaplan
Class of '57.
1. Yes, if the special committee
deems fit a form of representative
campus division.
2. Yes. The rights of the minori-.
ty, as well as the majority deserve
student-government protection and
assertion.
3. Yes. I feel that the student
body should recognize sincere ef-
forts to unify and strengthen stu-
dent opinion.
4. Yes. Any issue indirectly af-
fecting the student body directly
affects that unit of expression of
student opinion.
5. Yes. The student government
is responsible for providing serv-
ices to those campus groups prov-
ing themselves worthy of assist-
ance. Such financially successful
projects as CGB, Homecoming
Dance, etc. are the most useful
means available for a student gov-
erning body.
6. Regental approval of SGC
would, in theory, make it a much
stronger and more effective mech-
anism for expressing student opin-
ion and carrying out projects to
meet student needs. A more effec-
tive organization would logically
draw more student support. If the
passage of SGC will realize these
goals, then I will support it to the
fullest. If however, SGC does not
go into effect, I shall work to reor-
ganize and strengthen SL to
achieve the aims of strong and ef-
fective student government, and
to make it worthy of student sup-
port.
THERE IS AN end in mind-the
beginning of which is an organiza-
tion of centralized student opinion,
working for the students; run by
the students. The end in mind (but
not yet in view) is a self-asserting
unit representing to the University
student views.
We must deal realistically with
student problems. Therefore, we
must become closer to the vast
student body, we must retain its
opinion.
I
of the small number of represen-
tatives, would not have a place
for the representatives from mi-
nority groups.
* * *
THE PRESENT Student Legisla-
ture is not very effective. If I
am elected, I will do my best to
remedy this condition. I believe
this can be done by having the SL
take a more definite position on the
reforms it wishes to have made.
The SL should then assume the
leadership in organizing the stu-
dent body into expressing itself,
thus exerting pressure on the indi-
viduals who are in a position to ef-
fect reforms.
The present ban on student driv-
ing is an infringement on the stu-
dents' rights. The legislature should
not let this matter drop but should
continually press for the bans' re-
moval,
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fear the effect of the absence of'j
student government for this time.
We must have a thinking vote onj
the SGC poll.
* s *
AS ONE of those people who
only believe in student govern-
ment but also is willing to work for
its perpetuation, I have three sug-
gestions.
1. Better student-faculty admin-
istration relations. A group need
not be antagonistic if its beliefs
don't agree with existing policy.
2. Less hasty, immature action.
Students must recognize the exist-
ence of a responsible student gov-
ernment.
3. Concrete suggestions for ad-
ministrating student government
policy. After dealing in abstracts,1
there must be presented substan-
tial, workable ways of effecting the
change or improvement. As a Com-
mon Sense Party candidate my per-,
sonal feelings on specific areas
and issues are well defined by the
CSP platform.
I stand responsible to you to
work for the CSP platform, imple-i
menting it with the three above
suggestions.
Margie Conn
Alice Lloyd Inter-Dorm Coun-
cil; SL Public Relations Commit-
tee; SL Inter-Collegiate Relations
Committee. ('57, Incrmbent).
* * *
1. Yes. Closer SL student rela-
tionship through the establishment
of a partial district system with
representatives elected from hous-
ing units and the campus at large.
2. Yes. They can take stands to
discourage discrimination, but they
cannot force theissue. Private
housing groups and organizations
have the freedom to choose who-
ever they want.
3. Yes. Provided there is more
than one party in order to have the
opposition needed for the party
system to be effective.
4. Yes. They can take general
stands on such issues but should
not go into the details of individ-
ual cases.
5. Yes.
6. Yes. It will be a more effect-
ive student government through its
increased power to co-ordinate stu-
dent activities. Its small number
of elected members can be com-
pensated for by committees con-
sisting of elected and non-elected
members. '
I
I WOULD WORK with Inter-
House Council and Assembly on
plans for the improvement and ex-
pansion of the Residence Halls. I
would favor a survey of student
opinion on this matter. I would
work with the Literary College fac-
ulty in setting up a system of Fac-
ulty Evaluation, satisfactory to
both students and faculty. I favor
closer SL - student relationship
through the establishment of a par-
tial district system with represen-
tatives elected from housing units
and the campus at large.
Edward Boseker
Freshman wrestling, Ullr Ski
Club. ('58)
* * *
1. Yes. This proposed system of
candidates being elected from dis-
tricts is one way to increase stu-
dent interest in Student Legisla-
ture. The student body will be bet-
ter represented, since the repre-
sentatives will be responsible to
their individual districts instead
of to the entire campus.
2. Yes.
3. No. I believe that campus po-
litical parties are apt to be run by
a small machine. Since candidates
who subscribe to a party and re-
ceive backing from it are forced to
conform to the machine's plat-
form, the party candidates will no
longer represent the students, but
instead, a small minority. This
tendency of machine politics will
be hard to detect, but yet it is
inevitable if parties get a firm
footing in campus politics. It may
be true that a party would repre-
sent the majority opinion, but I
believe that the Student Legisla-
ture is to be the voice of all the
students, including even the mi-
nority opinions.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
6. Yes. I believe it is imperative
that the opinions of the students
be heard and considered. But un-
der the present system of student
government this is hardly being
done. If the present plans for Stu-
dent Government Council can be
Bob Chigrinsky
Harlan Givelber
U n i o n University Relations
Committee; Union Opera Pub-
licity; SL Campus Action Com-
mittee, Executive Wing. ('57)
* * *
1. The power of recall and the
competitive situations inherent in
the district system of representa-
tion are not the panaceas that cer-
tain persons claim. SL is ineffec-
tive because the student body al-
lows it to be so. There is no rea-
son to believe that a district sys-
tem in itself will correct this situ-
ation.
2. In its constitution, SL insures
the student body that "the Student
Legislature shall act on behalf of
the student body to express student
opinion." It is therefore a function
of your SL to express student opin-
ion on. discrimination.
3. The ulterior purpose of organ-
ization is strength through unity.
As all members of the student body
seek essentially the same ends,
student government is not the place
for party politics. We need a unit-
ed front rather than the broken
one political parties promise.
4. As it is its constitutional ob-
ligation to express student opinion,
SL must take stands on all campus
issues.
5. SL must carry on projects to
meet student needs as its constitu-
tion specifies.
6. Due to the fact that the pro-
posed SGC contains only eleven
elected members, its projects must
depend for success on persons re-
cruited from without, a situation
SL Culture and Education Com-
mittee, Chairman, Study Abroad
Sub-Committee; Dorm House
Council; Gargoyle; Book Ex-
change. ('55, Incumbent).
* * *
1. Yes, definitely. My firm con-
viction that such a system would
prove more effective, and surely
more meaningful than the pres-
ently-utilized 'Hare system' com-
pelled me to tender the suggestionj
of a District systen as a major
plank in my platfoi . when last I
ran for S.L. Since that time, great
strides have been made. A special
Committee to Study the District
System was formed (of which I am
a member), this committee to re-
port out with a working plan soon
after Thanksgiving vacation. The
institution of such a plan will pro-
vide a definite constituency for
each S.L. representative to report
back to, thus, making for a more
responsible student government.
2. Yes. As S.L. has condemned
discriminatory prr ctice in univer-
sity housing and in local business
establishments so should it regis-
ter its distaste 't occurrances of
th-i, vnrfi. in nrthp.r hteverdirectlyv
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4. It is my firm belief that such
issues affect the student body more
than indirectly. They involve the
concept of Academic Freedom (an
oft ill-used term, but in this in-
stance, I believe, an appropriate
one.) Briefly, I was co-author of
the following motions: a. protest-
ing the suspension of faculty mem-
bers, considering such suspensions
to be ased on insufficient and in-
appropriate grounds, and indica-
tive of a presumption of guilt un-
til innocence is proven; b. advocat-
ing the tendering by the University
of severance pay to dismissed fac-
ulty.
Paul Dormont
SL Culture and Education Com-
mittee; Student Book Exchange;
Anti - Discriminatior B o a r d;
NAACP; Students For Demo-
cratic Action; Civil Liberties
Committee. ('55, Incumbent).
* * *
1. No.
2. Yes. Quite a few thousand
students on campus suffer direct-
ly from discrimination, and all of
us suffer indirectly from it. Wher-
ever and whenever students on
campus are discriminated against
on the basis of race, religion or
national origin, whether by the
University or by private citizens,
SL should not only take stands,
but should work for the removal of
that discrimination.
3. Yes. The Common Sense Par-
ty, and other campus political par-
ties can perform two vital func-
tions:
a. Reactivate and channel stu-
dent opinion in campus affairs;
b. Make S.L. elections the type
where people are elected primarily
on the basis of their opinions on im-
portant issues, and not on person-
ality, good-looks, etc.
4. Yes. Today, when Congression-
al investigations and witch-hunts
which I cannot condone. As I view
a change for the saki of a, change
no change at all, I don't favor the
proposed s t u d e n t government
council. I would always, however,
respect and support student opinion
as its representative.
* * *
I BELIEVE THAT it is the re-
sponsibility of every student gov-
ernment legislator to accurately re-
fle'ct student opinion. I sincerely
acknowledge this as my obligation
to the student body, if elected.
Regardless of thekform student
government will take, I shall al-
ways stand for the good and bet-
terment of all through student sup-
port of the representative body
and representative support of the
student body.
In the past, student apathy to-
ward their gov't. has allowed it to
be guided by expediency rather
than student welfare. With stu-
dent attitude, therefore, rests its
future.
John P. Kelly
Transfer from Boston Univer-
sity; President of Sophomore
Class, BU; Student Council, BU.
('55).
1. Yes, because I feel that this
system would promote a keener
sense of responsibility among the
elected representatives by virtue
of the fact that each member could
then be held directly responsible
by his own constituency.
2. No.
3. Yes, for I believe it should be
a basic principle of any form of
government to allow the electorate
a choice.
4. No. . .
5. Yes, I believe that SL should
sponsor certain service projects
but that these should be carefully
chosen so as not to involve SL so
much as to cause it to lose sight
of its main objective--studentsgov-
ernment.
6. Yes, because I feel that SGC is
a step closer to the goal of strong
student government. SGC can blend
the experience of SL into its own
newly-created powers -to form a co-
hesive "oneness" whicb can not
but help to further the general in-
terests of every student on campus.
* * *
WHO IS THIS MAN Kelly? Is he
a playtoy of the wealthy, the dar-
ling of the moneyed interests on
campus? Will he, if elected, for-
sake his impoverished friends
among the student poor? Can his
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6. Both SL and SGC have weak-
nesses and strengths. SL's main
weakness is its lack of power and
authority, while its main strength
comes from its representativeness.
SGC's main weakness is its lack of
representativeness, and its strength
lies in the powers that are invested
in it. Whichever form of student
government wins out, I think that
its primary task will be to over-
come its main weakness.
* * *-
I WOULD LIKE to serve on the
Student Legislature again because
Bill Haney
Class of '58. (CSP)
* * *
1. Yes. The district system will
give representation to all segments
of the campus. This will, of course,
give a true picture of student opin-
ion which is the purpose of SL.
2. Yes.
3. Yes. Political parties stimulate
interest in student government
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