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THE LANCE
A Weekly Journal of News and Events At St, Andrews Presbyterian College
1961 - Fifteenth Anniversary Year-1976
LAURPJBURG, NORTH CAROLPJA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28,1976
NUMBERS
Ford Surprise Winner In Straw Votes
heel-A-Thon
Raises
Big Bucks
BY STEVEN KUNKLE
STAFF WRITER
The roads were crowded
[with wheelchairs, bicycles,
land tricycles last Saturday as
[the Wheel-a-Thon was in full
Iprogress, sponsored by the St.
[Andrews National Paraplegic
[Foundation (SA-NPF).
Rolling for 11 long miles
Ifrom the Student Union to the
ISouth Carolina border and
[back, were 11 participants,
[using 2 manual wheelchairs, 2
lelectric chairs, 2 bicycles,
|and one bicycle built for two.
Coming in first were Linda
[Montgomery on a bike, and
[Thomas Ashley on a
vheelchair who made it in 3
hours and 20 minutes, with
iRobin Titterington close
[behind. Other participants
sere: Patti Conrad; Pam
[Trent; Concetta Rendon;
INancy Urie, Chet Naiman;
iGertrude Beal; Beverly
luecer; and Deede Cum-
erland.
The coordinators of the
vent were John Copeland,
BA-NPF President; and
Laura Drumheller. The
Checkers which were disper-
M along the course were
teven J. Kunkle; Teresa
ptaley; Teresa Tallent; and
I John Copeland.
|{ An estimated $400 was
'laised, part of which goes to
the National Paraplegic
foundation for Spinal Cord
Injury Research.
Special thanks were ex-
J)ressed by participants and
lorganizers dike to Nancy
|tJiie, for help in times of
heed; Knight Chamberlain,
Ror driving the van; Coor
dinator Laura Drumheller,
^"for arranging the refresh-
'pients; Security Director
Jack Reville and Sheriff N.
W. Quick for providing hi^-
ifay protection; and of cour
se, for all those who pledged
noney to make the \^eel-a-
hon the success it was.
FRroAY VOTING
Class
Ford
Carter
McCarthy
Brown
Senior
33
43
9
0
Junior
45
5
1
Sophomore.
35
18
1
4
Freshman..
52
29
4
1
Totals
135
19
6
Percentages
47.8
MONDAY VOTING
42.5
6.0
L7
Class
Ford
Carter
McCarthy
Brown
Senior
30
35
5
3
Junior
36
44
5
1
Sophomore.
38
29
0
0
Freshman.
61
32
3
0
Totals
165
140
13
4
Percentages
50.8
43.1
4.0
LI
Ford
Carter
Brown
IVlcCarth\
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Campus Mail.
Underclassmen Key To
First GOP Victory
At St. Andrews
President Gerald Ford defeated Democratic challenger
Jimmy Carter in both rounds of a mock election held this week
by Dr. George Melton’s senior seminar class on elections.
The elections were held in the lobby of the College Union on
Friday and Monday to determine whether or not any change in
voter preferences would be caused by the final televised debate
between the two candidates on Friday night.
Ford was the winner in both instances, taking 47.8 percent of
the vote on Friday and 50.8 percent on Monday, to defeat
Carter, who scored 42.5 percent and 43.1 percent respective^
on the two days.
Independent presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, who
was the winner of the 1968 mock election at St. Andrews, won
only 6 percent of the vote on Friday, and lost two points over
the weekend, receiving 4 percent of the vote in Monday’s
baUoting.
California governor Jerry Brown, who made a late but
impressive foray into the Democratic contest this past spring,
won about one percent of the vote in both elections, and
approximately 9 percent of those voting professed themselves
undecided about fte race.
68 percent of the student community voted.
Fully one third of the Ford vote came from the new Class of
1980, indicating that predictions on campus over the last few
months that they would be the most conservative class at St.
Andrews in years are pretty close to the mark. Among the
other three classes, support for the President was almost
exactly the same: 35 sophomore votes, 32 junior votes and 33
senior votes.
W
Carter’s support came mostly from the junior and senior W'-
classes; the total vote for him from those classes was almost
twice that from the sophomore and freshman classes. Support
for McCarthy was likewise heavily based in the upper classes.
Campus organizers for both candidates were caught off
guard by the results.
St. Andrews Republican Committee chairman Lin
Thompson, whose dozen member group has been quietly
working for Ford this fall, was delighted. “We thought we’d be
close, but didn’t expect to win.”
“We are really pleased,” he said. “It’s reaDy a turnaround
for St. Andrews to go Republican on anything. In ’64 it went for
Lyndon Johnson, in ’68 it went for McCarthy, and in ’72 it went
for McGovern. And now it goes for Ford ... I think it’s a good
indication of what is going to happen on Election Day.”
Carter chairman Nanci Boggs was “surprised by the results,
particularly with “the conservative trend that showed up
among the underclassmen. I hope, though, she told THE
LANCE yesterday, “that people will make a measured decision
on Tuesday and not vote to keep the status quo.”
This
Week
TONIGHT: WSAP’s Album of the week is Dylan’s “Hard Rain
10 p.m.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28: Soccer-Atlantic Christian College,
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28: Volleyball - UNC-
WilmingtonGuilford, at home, 7:00 p.m.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30: Cross Country - Francis Marion,
OTM)AY, OCTOBER 31: CUB Movie - “The Haunting”
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1: Attic Cheap Film Series presents
“Dr. Jackel and Mr. Hyde”, Edited version of the 1920 motion
picture adopted from the Robert Lewis Stevenson tale starring
John Barrymore. Considered the first great American horror
film.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1: Volleyball - UNC-
CharlotteMethodist, at home, 7:00 p. m.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3: CCC Worship Service, Chapel
Island, 6:15 p. m. (in case of rain, meet in Kings Mountain
Lounge)