1967-05-02; Central Michigan Life

              Tuesday, May 2, 1967
BALLARD
LOCKMAN
lIUHNING OVER the reins of student government Sunday
ifere Student Body President Ballard and Vice President
liockman.
RISON MERWIN
LAST NIGHT'S Student Senate meeting was the first one
handled under the regime of President Rison and Vice
President Merwin.
Mine Testify In Preliminary .Hearing
S Judiciary Hears Ballot Box Stuffing Case
by STEVE REED
|<Lt/e Student Affairs Editor
Two students have been
piarged with "improper use
If ballots" in the recent student body elections by the
jifodent Judiciary Investigat-
Committee. The indictment was issued after the
judiciary dissolved^ n t o a
Committee of the whole during last week's court session
to hear evidence concerning
the incident.
The charges were made after
the committee evaluated evidence given by poll workers
and elections committee members and studied the ballots in
question during the two-hour
hearing Thursday.
Summons have been served
to the two defendants and the
Judiciary has appointed a prosecutor for the trial to be held
this Thursday.
Education Becomes
Two Departments
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for a long time. The growing
emphasis on education made
this change a very necessary
one.
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The trial, which is scheduled
for 4:30 in the afternoon, will
be held in the University Center and is open to the public.
Barry Nobles, chief justice
of the Student Judiciary,
pointed out that the charges
are not proof of guilt.
"The judiciary felt," he said,
"there was sufficient evidence
to warrant charges. The question of guilt will be decided
during the trial."
Nine Testify
The committee heard testimony from nine students, including the two later indicted,
during the course of the investigation.
Testimony indicated that the
approximately 35 ballots in the
4 to 5 p.m. Warriner Hall ballot box, which were consecutively numbered and marked
for the same candidates, were
illegally placed in the box.
The committee also noted
that several ballots were missing and could not be accounted
for.
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Chi Sigma has been accepted as a chapter of national Sigma Chi fraternity.
Thus end months of apprehensive waiting during
which Chi Sigma has been plagued with constitutional
problems.
After a six-month investigation into "alleged discriminatory practices" of national Sigma Chi, University
Senate on Nov. 7 approved the constitution of the Chi
Sigs.
The chapter had sought constitutional approval
since last May- but action was delayed "pending clarification of questions relative to discriminatory practices."
The postponement was sparked by alleged incidents at
other, universities concerning Sigma Chi, particularly
at Stanford University in California.
The details of the alleged incident at Stanford were
never released for publication although statements from
the dean of students at Stanford were read before the
Senate.
A statement from the national executive secretary
of Sigma Chi was also presented at that time which
said in part that statutes and ritual "do not include any
membership requirements which exclude or discriminate against any individual on account of race, color,
religious creed, ancestry or national origin."
On May 7, all of the members of Chi Sigma will
be sworn in as pledges of Zeta Rho chapter of Sigma
Chi.
"Indoctrination Week" begins May 14 during which
the pledges may not speak to anyone except to say
"hello" and must spend all their evenings together.
The pledges will become active members at a banquet on May 21.
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However, the two poll workers from that period in Warriner Hall denied any connection
with the irregularities.
"It is very possible that they
(the ballots) were stuffed," one
of them admitted. "I did not
stuff the ballots," he added, "I
don't know who did."
The other student who
worked the Warriner Hall polls
at the same time stated that
he had been absent from the
polls from 4:15 to 4:45 that afternoon because he had lost a
textbook and was looking for
it.
He also denied any knowledge of any irregularities and
added that he didn't know
what had happened to the
missing ballots.
Counters Noticed Discrepancy
The discrepancy in the ballots from the Warriner Hall
box was first noticed by vote
counters the night of the election. Closer scrutiny revealed
what one member of the elections committee called a
"marked simularity" in the
markings of the ballots.
The tally of the Warriner
box gave an overwhelming majority of the votes to the Action
slate of Jan Appel and Dan
VanVleet.
Only through innovation
can we progress."
This was the keynote of
Student Body President Steve
Rison's inaugural address at
the Student Senate installation banquet Sunday night.
The address followed the
installation of the new student government officers for
the coming year. Bob Ballard, outgoing president, administered the oath of office
to Rison and Greg Merwin, the
new vice president.
Also at the banquet the Outstanding Senator of the Year
Award was presented to Ar-
ARLENE TURBIN
lene Turbin, Woldt senator, for
her outstanding work in Student Senate for the past year.
Miss Turbin served as chairman of the Senate Student Affairs and Welfare Committee.
Ballard Emphasizes Change
Ballard, in his farewell remarks to the gathering, emphasized two "interesting"
changes he would like to see
come about in the University's
organization.
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hllosophy Panel Examine
Conscientious Objections
Tomorrow night at 8, the
Philosophy Club,is sponsoring
a  panel  discussion  on  "Con-
Career Opportunities
Described In Speech
As a part of AWS Women's
Week, "Color Us Collegiate,"
Bonnie Lane of the Mosher
Secretarial School in Chicago
will describe career opportunities today from 1-3 p.m. in the
UC Ballroom. Miss Lane's topic
is "Color Us Curious."
To climax the week's activities, Ruth Montgomery, author
of "A Gift Of Prophecy: The
Phenomenal Jeane Dixon," will
speak tomorrow night at 8 in
Warriner Auditorium. Miss
Montgomery will speak on "A
Search For The Truth."
scientious   Objection   and   the
Draft."
Four faculty members in addition to registered conscientious objector Verne Bechiell,
of the sociology department of
Alma College, will compose the
panel.
According to John Johnson,
president, the Philosophy Club
tries to deal with everyday
problems which affect the students. Since every male student on campus should be concerned over the draft, the Philosophy Club wants to delve
deeply into the social aspects
and moral decisions of this
problem.
The meeting will be held in
the UC Maroon, Gold and Wolverine rooms.
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