fliG Collegiate
WEEKLY
ATLANTIC CHRISTIAN COLLEGE, MARCH 7, 1968
NUMBER SEVENTEEN
^ice-Presidential Ballot Cast Out
[flection Set
larch 20th
fie Vice President Election
If/ tie Student Government As-
^jaliou mJ] be held on March
Ifroji) s a.m. to 4 p.m. in the
hUij of the Hines Hall Class
en Building. Campaign period
fill te held March 6-20, Cam-
speeches are set for 4
'fMlch'w at a designated
(J which will__be a™funced
lit a
'itiwen
later date. The election is
Alice Nash and A1
1 LlJi'a'-.
Day Student
I Pay student Election will be
I idd on March 21 from 12 noon
114 p,m. in the lobby of the
|®es Hall Classroom Building,
i Class meeting was held on
jfarcfi 5 in the Chapel at which
lime nominations were taken
Im the floor. According to the
(lass constitution, this is the only
jay no inations can be made,
le campaign period will be
llsrch 7 through 20.
See ELECTION Page 4
Alice Nash Successfully
Contests Office Election
I Dance Features
^ Mon^as Music
I
Be Monzas will be appearing
at Atlantic Christian College on
Friday, March 8th from 8-12
p,m. in the Hardy Dining Hall,
ill student body members and
IMt dates are welcome to come,
riiere will be no admission
charged, but I.D. cards will be
required at the door.
Plans are now complete for Atlantic Christian College’s First
Festival of Contemporary Arts,” which is scheduled to be held
in Wilson March 14-28. Shown in a planning session are college
faculty members responsible for the areas of drama, music and
art. From left to right are: Paul Crouch, drama; William Duck
worth, music; and Thomas Marshall, art. Duckworth is chair
man of the festival.
Latta Is Treasurer
Wyndham Is Elected
To S.G.A. Presidency
I Class Elections
Set March 21;
I Rules Revealed
I Nomination for class officers
jwil be made from the floor
during class meetings on March
111
I After all nominations are
'made, the nominees shall ac
cept or reject the nomination.
■ The candidates accepting nomi-
' nation must sign a formal dec-
jlaratlon of acceptance after the
' class meeting. If a candidate
itisbes to withdraw from the
nomination at a later date, he
niiist contact the President of
j Ms class and sign a formal dec-
See CLASS Page 4
Byron Wyndham, a junior po
litical science major from At
lanta, Ga., was elected Presi
dent of the Student Government
Association in campus-wide elec
tions held Thursday and Friday.
Voting tabulations reveal^
that Wyndham had defeated
Beth Best, a junior from Dunn,
for the office by some 38 votes,
133 to 95,
Other results show that A1
Cooke received 196 votes for
vice president. However, since
the election results were tabu
lated, the vice presidential bal
lot has been successfully contest
ed by Alice Nash, a junior from
Winston-Salem. Re-election for
the office is set for March 20.
Paul Latta, a junior from Ox
ford, successfully vied for trea
surer with a total of 212 votes.
Write-Ins
The election results do not in
clude a number of write-in bal
lots cast during the election.
which were not totaled. Write-
in ballot totals have not been of
ficially estimated, but according
See WYNDHAM Page 4
BYRON WYNDHAM
By JOYCE COPELAND
The Executive Board held a
called meeting Thursday night
which reaffirmed the decision
made by the board in a closed
meeting on Wednesday.
President Dexter stated that
he had overstepped his authority
by accepting petitions for SGA
offices after the announced filing
date. Several members of the
board apologized for their action
in the closed session. The deci
sion of the board in that meet
ing was, in e s s e n s e, the
deadline for the petition was the
same as that for filing, there
fore the petitions in question
were invalid.
Hyson
John Hyson stated that he felt
that the Board could not deny
by retroactive vote the right of
those students who had petitioned
by what they thought was a
normal procedure the right to
run. “Even though it is legal,
I feel ■ that it is in poor taste
to allow this (the election) to
go on. Therefore I feel that
we should accept the petitions
and hold another election.” Hy
son reminded the board that,
“we are here to represent the
student body, not Robert’s Rules
of Order.”
Bobby Dunn, day student presi
dent, then contested Hyson’s
authority on the basis that he
did not attend the meeting. Miss
Olivia Smith then presented
the motion Hyson had originally
stated.
Contested
The election was then con
tested on the grounds that Miss
Alice Nash had been withdrawn
from the race without her con
sent. This meant that the bal
lots were invalid. It was then
stated that contestation of the
election did not cause the elec
tion to stop.
The motion to reconsider the
board’s action was denied. As
far as results were concerned,
the meeting determined nothing.
But, the fact that the situation
aroused student interest provided
some reconciliation for the mat
ter.
Monday
The battle of the elections was
continued as the Executive Board
held a regular meeting Monday
night.
Miss Alice Nash formally con-
Active In State
“To Err Is Human’
Exec Board Decision
Explained By Dexter
1
Paul Latta (left) and Harold Herrmg. ^ave been active
iege’s chapter of the Young Kepublican Clw ^
'a the North Carolina College Republican Fede pubhcity
the Northeast Regional Director and convention co-
Chairman. Herring has been program chai gg^ving a®
‘ii'dinator and executive secretary and 4* joined E* *
state organization’s Chairman. The two O’Connell »»
'’wne Perkins, Herman Slate and Kenneth ivi. organization
'•^senting the local club at a state meeting o
wW in Raleigh Feb. 23 and 24.
By DOUG DEXTER
S.G.A. President
Even though I have been rec
ommended to do so by the Ex
ecutive Board of the Student
Government Association, I feel
that it is my duty as president
to try to clarify what has trans
pired during the recent Executive
Board meetings concerning the
SGA elections. Admittedly, there
have been errors on the part
of the Executive Board, the cor
porate student body and by in
dividual students. Last Wednes
day night, February 28, the Ex
ecutive Board, in a dosed meet
ing voted nine in favor, one
opposed, and three abstentions,
to declare that the filing dates
and dates for the submission of
petitions as one are the same..
Henceforth the President was in
error in receiving the petition.
On Thursday night, February
29, the Executive Board met
tested the election results
through the voice of the Elec
tion Committee chairman, Miss
Bobbie Ellis. Dean Robert Ben
nett reminded the board that in
considering this action the “fu
ture of th SGA on this campus
may be at stake.”
Several board members pre
sented petitions from their con
stituents in support of Miss
Nash. These petitions as well as
Miss Nash’s proposal involved
the entire election.
Dunn declared that according
to Robert’s Rules only the vice-
presidential election could be
contested. Also after the officers
have been notified of their elec
tions it is too late to contest
the results. Since Dexter had an
nounced the results at the be
ginning of the meeting, the con-
See ALICE Page 4
ALICE NASH
Vice-Presidential Candidate
again and after two-and-a-half
hours of deliberation a concensus
failed to rise. The decision was
to table discussion until the reg
ular business meeting be held on
Monday, March 4.
At the regular business meet
ing, after consideration of past
discussion and the presentation
of petition, the Board ruled that
Alice Nash be allowed to run
for office of vice-president of the
SGA and that a re-vote was nec
essary for this particular office.
Miss Nash’s statement was to
contest the entire election. This
could not be upheld because each
separate office, even though upon
one common ballot, constituted
one ballot. This in effect says
that there were three ballots on
the one piece of paper known
as the total ballot. In light of
this, the other offices could not
See EXEC Page 4
Class Offices
Filing Dates
U neons titutionai
By JOYCE COPELAND
A special meeting of the Ex
ecutive Board was held Tuesday
night in Hines Hall. Attendance
was sparse compared to the
previous two meetings. The filing
date of the class elections was
questioned by the Elections Com
mittee.
The constitution of the day
students and classes specify that
nominations must be made from
the floor. The Executive Board
had already set dates for filing
for these offices. These dates
were unnecessary and unconsit-
tutional.
A motion was made to abolish
these dates which was approved.
Bobby Dunn then made a mo
tion to require the class presi
dents to handle their elections
according to their individual con
stitutions. The motion met the
approval of the board.
Another motion was approved
in the unusually short session.
Class officers are to be asked to
bring class constitutions in line
with the existing SGA constitu
tion and that the officers period
ically review their consitutions
with this purpose in mind.
The meeting then adjourned
after only about a half hour
of friendly debate^
Chaplain Hensley
Is Convocation
Speaker Tuesday
The semester’s second Convoca
tion is scheduled for 11 a.m.
Tuesday in Wilson Gymnasium.
Music will be provided by “The
Other Side” and Chaplain Dan
Hensley Jr. will be the speaker.