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Ml : -.1 4 1. is o nice by William March Staff Writer Elections Board Chairman Leo Gordon has announced that new elections for the Student Government (SG) reorganization referendum, Student Legislature (SL) seats and freshman class officer run-offs will be held Tuesday. Besides the referendum, the following elections will be held: a run-off for the Honor Court seat in Women's District VII; run-offs for freshman class president and social chairman; and contested Student Legislature seats in Men's Districts II and III. The referendum ballots will be three pages.. Jong. and will contain in .full. the wording of the Campus Governing Council proposal for SG reorganization 4 u u !iu,u uj SI os)j . kj. ? s, . q RCF to be dissolved lesttractariiig approved by Ken Allen Staff Writer The proposal to dissolve the Residence College Federation (RCE) and replace it with a Residence Hall Association (RHA) cleared the first of three hurdles Tuesday night. The executive board of RCF recommended acceptance of the new constitution by the Association of Women Students, Men's Residence Council and the Craige Graduate Center. Theoretically, the proposal has only to be recommended by the RCE" executive board, approved by the legislative bodies Jubilant Republicans made it hard to Charlotte, and a radio fan at the Hilton election coverage, please turn to pages 4 and ;1 again- reform referendum (the Epps Plan), Gordon said. As required by SG law RR 51-58, the full text of the proposal must appear on the ballot. This law resulted in the Supreme Court's overturning the original referendum. "We will definitely have the ballots ready by Tuesday," Gordon said. Gordon said "a vigorous effort" would be made to insure that no fault could be found with election procedure. "I don't want to hear the least sniffle about a court case after this one," he commented. Walter Daniels, coordinator of the Commission for Student Government Reorganization, predicted in a letter to the DTH Wednesday that a large voter turnout would be necessary for passage of the Tuesday referendum. and ratified by the student body. In practice, however, the situation gets complicated. To receive approval by the legislative bodies, the Association , of Women Students, Men's Residence Council and Craige Graduate Center each must approve the proposal by a majority of two thirds of those members present and voting. If it goes through the legislative body without any changes, which is unlikely, according to RCF Chairman Steve Saunders, then the Student Legislature Judiciary committee must act upon the approved proposal and recommend that hear tor both Mike Cozza, WBTV in Inn in Raleigh Tuesday night. For more 5. (Staff photo by Cliff Kolovson) . : ; ' .Democra by Susan S pence Staff Writer Democrats came up winners with Orange County voters in every race-local, state ar.d national-m Tuesday's election. On the national level. Orange County kept its liberal voting record intact by being one of only two North Carolina counties to go to McGovern-Shriver. However, the margin was not large, with McGovern tallying 12,628 votes to 1 1,616 for Nixon. Northhampton was the only other state county to give McGovern a majority, with 3,231 votes to Nixon's 2,997. Chapel Hill, predictably enough, was McGovern's greatest stronghold, giving him nine of 13 precincts. The Democrat's heaviest voting turnouts were in largely student precincts. Totals in Chapel Hill Vol. 81, No. 57 stadenlts Richard Robertson, one of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court challenge to the Oct. 17 referendum and a consistent opponent of reorganization, predicted a large voter turnout would be necessary for defeat. John Molen, principal plaintiff in the challenge, said he could not predict whether the change in the wording of the ballot might significantly affect the outcome. "I frankly don't know just what we'll need to defeat the proposal, but the wording could be important," Molen said. "The wording of the ballot for the North Carolina constitutional amendment to raise the office-holding age to 21 was pretty sneaky, and this same type of approach might affect the vote on the reorganization referendum," he added. the Elections Board hold a student referendum to amend the Student Constitution. But breakdowns are possible all along the way. . Craige Graduate Center has disputed the wording of the RHA constitution, and they may not approve it in the approval, meeting, scheduled for Wednesday night in rooms 215-217 of the Student Union. That would throw the proposal back into the executive board, which would work out the points of contention and resubmit it to the legislative bodies. Another problem that could arise is that Student Legislature has not appointed a Judiciary committee, pending an election to fill vacant SL seats. The election has been set for Tuesday. Only then could the students get a chance to vote on the proposal. "The earliest possible date for the referendum is Dec. 5," Saunders said, "and that isn't very likely." The next available time would be Jan. 17. "There are lots of problems and we'll just have to take them one at a time," said Saunders. .Democratic disimilty to blamt by Mary Ellis Gibson Staff Writer Disunity in the North Carolina Democratic Party and good organization and coordination of state Republican campaigns contributed to the Republican sweep in Tuesday's election, students active in electoral politics agreed Wednesday. "Of course we were very happy." Richard Robertson of the Young Republicans Club said. "I think the Republican victories are indicative of the hard work of Republicans across the state." The Holshouser win "opens the door for this to be a two party state," Robertson said. "I think it's an open door to good government through increased competition for state office." Nixon's win in North Carolina was expected by students active in both parties. "McGovern did no worse and no better than Humphrey did in North Carolina in 1968." Gerry Cohen of the Orange County Democratic Committee said. "It hurts to lose, but it was an uphill battle." The victory of Democrats Flo Garrett and Richard Whitted in the Orange County commissioner's race is encouraging. Cohen said. "Although voting for Helms and Nixon, these people are still willing to vote for a black for county commissioner." McGovern organizer Charlie Dean attributed McGovern's poor showing in North ere McGovern. Ml 6 and Nucn. 5.'3. Carrboro also gave McGovern an edge with 1,562 votes to Nixon's 1.307. The South Dakota Democrat found 1st! Is support in northern Orange, however, gaining only 2,95 votes to 4,31 1 for the President. In the state races. Orange County also overwhelmingly supported the Democrats. In the 16th District State Senate race, A.B. Cokman Jr. and incumbent William Saunders were convincing winners of the two seats over Republicans P.H. Craig and Dave Drexel. Coleman ran first in Orange County, sweeping all 28 precincts with an unofficial total of 16,915; Saunders took second place with 12,718; followed by Craig w ith 7,304 and Drexel with 6.260. Democrats in the State House of Representatives race also found little difficulty winning, with Trish Stanford Chapel Hill, North Carolina, face "I would assume that a lot of individuals will be watching the election Tuesday on their own initiative, to check for irregularities," Molen said. "But I know of no organized effort to watchdog the election." According to Fred Davenport, vice president of the student body and speaker of the Student Legislature, the new legislators from MD II and III will be sworn in and the SL committees will be elected on Thursday, Nov. 16, at the first meeting of the SL after the elections. SL will then be able to do business again, having been on a lay-off because the committees could not be elected while elections were still contested. "If reorganization passes again," Davenport said, "one of the top priorities for the Rules committee will be to set up the districts for election of members of the Campus Governing Council. This probably won't be a very difficult job because we have some people in SL who have a lot of experience with districting on this campus. There will be plenty of time to set things up for prospective council elections on Feb. 6." Candidates for the run-off and repeat elections Tuesday are as follows: for three SL seats from MD II Mike Boner, Robert W. Carter, Steve Coggins, Hunter Dalton, David Gaynor, George Wood and Steve Yelverton; for five SL seats from MD III Chris Callahan, Rocker Channell, Tom Daniels, John M. Davis, Robert Eve, Robert Griffin, Ed Hawes, Ralph Hill, James Hutton, Nick Jones, Dave Kohl, Jim Lyman, Douglas Martin, Ralph Pitts, Richard Robertson, Peter Romans, Michael Stephens, Craig Stewart, Robert Weaver and Jim Wilcox; for two honor court seats' from WD VII-Denise Baddour, Mary Virginia Currie, Sue Dixon, Marcia Lamm, Alice Martin and Susan Strafford; for freshman class president Chuck Babington and Barry Schneider; for freshman class social chairman Hank Birdsong, Blake Dean and Lawrence Lillv. Weather TODAY: Sunny and cool; high in the mid 60's, low in the upper 30's; probability of precipitation near zero through tonight. Campus win in county rnr.?r.g hr: m a!2 Ch.-pel H.I1 anJ Gnb-r-ro precr..tv with the exception of RjJge;:ec5 and td Holmes taking first puce m 1 2 precincts and second place m 15 others Voting totals m Orange County were 16.240 tor Stanford; 15.653 for Holmes; and challengers Barry Bums and Elmer Hughes running far behind with 6,465 and 5.41V votes, respectively. The race for the two seats on the Orange Count Board of Commissioners was no different, giving an easy victory to Democrats Mo Garrett and Richard Whined over Republicans John Gastmeau and Phil Romancer. Garrett and Whined swept all 2$ precincts with 15.331 and 14.,07 votes, respectively, showing their greatest strength m Chapel Hill and Carrboro precincts. Voting in the governor's race was close Thursday, November 9, 1972 Sfetr It seems as though the NCNB building in Chapel Hill has been under constructioi forever. But now it is finally nearing completion with just some of the minor feature to be finished. (Staff photo by Tad Stewart Student loan fund begins Wednesday A Student Government loan program offering UNC students loans of up to SI 5 upon request will go into effect on Wednesday, according to Student Body Vice President Fred Davenport. The fund will operate from the Division of Student Affairs, 01 Steele Building, from which loans will be disbursed from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Any student may borrow up to SI 5, which has to be repaid within 10 days. If the loan is not repaid within the time limit, the student will forfeit his borrowing privileges for the equivalent of one semester. Any student who fails to repay a loan after 30 days will be considered to have politicians Carolina to the fact that McGovern workers could not do enough personal canvassin in the state. "We didn't feel the campaign was a total loss," Dean said. The McGovcr organization has a strong basis for reaching people the Democratic party does nc ordinarily reach, he said. He predicted this basis could be built upon in futur elections. Lack of Democratic unity contributed to the McGovern loss, Dean said. Th Democratic party of North Carolina didn't want to have anything to do with us,"h explained. Because the state party ignored the presidential race, state Democrats will "have t do some explaining" to encourage McGovern workers to continue their active suppor for party candidates, Dean predicted. A large gain in the black and the youth votes in recent weeks may partially accoun for the victory of Republican Jim Holshouser in the gubernatorial race, according t Bob Singer, campus organizer for Holshouser. Excessive advertising and overexposure may have hurt Democrat "Skipper" Bowles chances in metropolitan areas. Singer said. "People got tired of seeing advertisements and this led them to believe Bowles wa trying to buy the election." he explained. Please turn to page 6, column 1 with Bow5 3ead:ng HoKhouser I .V votrs to 50.37 m Orarff Coly. T Northed? preempt i$ ajain hcav Democratic with Bo !es taking 733 vol and Hokheurr or.ty 16. Sou? he Orange went to Bowles 10.060 votes 7.09. Jim Hunt took a!! 28 precincts m. t leute nant governor's rjee F.rul to! a! ( the candidates were Hunt. 17,24 Wi'.KcT. 6.5M. and Mcl endon, 69. In the U.S. Senate race. Gil;!iar.a earned Orange by more than a two to e margin, with 16.273 votes to Heir? 7.674. Democratic candidate L.H 1 oun!i won the seat in the US House wi 14.4S3 votes to Little's .375 1 at t received a higher .percentage if the vot in Orange County than tn any of t! other 11 counties in the cr Congressional District. Founded February 2Z, 182 committed an Honor Code offense, ai will be tried in the student courts. The loan program is funded fro $2,500 in Student Government mom The loans will be repaid into it. There is no expiration date on I program, which Davenport term "experimental." Student Body Treasurer Way Thomas is to receive weekly reports the status of the fund from the Divisi of Student Affairs and make montl reports on its status to the Stude Legislature Finance committee. Thomas is also required, at the end one semester's operation, to report on t fund's state of affairs directly to SL a recommend any changes .he thin appropriate in the program. jg
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