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ScabSheit believes that student govern-
S{C ami ti'e tuJeat erc and iec ion
Committee also managed to continually t'harrassT'
presidential candidate David Ressor. (For a
complete account of t1ae Ressor affair" seel the
mentas ii nowtands is futile and incapable
of meeting the needs
stur ents in tris univer- acconpanying article in thi issue ) Up until
sity3 But even in .t;hèsandbd*there must be some tie day of the elections tIesecommettees cntformof justiceandfirplay.
inually aproved Ressorts candiacy and then
0±'
Thet is tne only word to describe what declaired him ineligible ir' a never-ending cycle
so-called student body Laders and ad ministrators WhileSAC and theelections committee had
perp?trated in the electioii last Thursday and
approved mumerous candidates who did
Friday. After numerous interviews and gathering already
not tneet the mininrnni hours ualifacations for
of eiridence the Scab Sheet has discovered prob- the term before to run and who all blamed it
ably the greatest fraud iaOSTJ's history. Witon the fact that they had participated in the
hesses are prepared to testify in court if nece- Black Student Jnion Boycott, Ressor was the
ssary to hr following events and -incidents0
one required to submit written proof beIt is no secret that administrators started only
fore the committees that he had participated0
picking the candidates THE Y wanted to. ese in thehtn fact, many candidates who lacked the necesoffice at the end of the term. For instance,
sary hours were approved by "key" student leac RQbrrt Chick, dean of students, called into
with out the an question even going to
hiTTT3sE'rm one of the present candidatesders
th committee,
Fraud
still in the eletion 'for president, and informed Another example of the harassment Ressor
the student that his chances forgetting the pre- recieved was that to obtain a copy of election
sideicy were "very good" and that he could expect regulations these were handed out to
much"ooperation" in the Bid. Other furare can-other candidate without request) he wasevery
requididates were also contacted for other offices,
red by David Rudin, chairman of the elections
When it came time for students to be validated committee, to put his, request in writing and
as candidates, certain students deemed "unfavor- have it notarized,
able'r by the administration were found ineligible
It is noteworthy that Ressor was first
while rules were relaxed or dispensed with entiroy proved by the committees and 'tI'en
his
for "picks" or those in favor with certain student "liberal platform appeared he wasafter
declared
body leaders.
'ineligible" the first of many times.
To be eligible for MU Board of Directdrs, ac.'
II
cording to Student Senate bylaws and other documents, a student must have had at least two terms
candidate is deemed totally responsible
workon MU activitties. Neither Brian McCune nor for"A
all campaigning acts of his campaign orgDon Wiesner met the requirements. However, they 5nization. (This is not to say tiat t e'indiwere both approved by the, 'MU board. Ten other
vidual campaigning acts .of those persons need
students attempted to be made eligible to run for be within the candidates knowledge),"
- ASQTJ
board director.
Election
Proceedures
and
Campaign
Rules.
All of these studnnts were turned down by varHarold Britton's "recognized" political orious board members and associates,on the grounds ganization
now began a premeditater "smear"
that they didn't meet the requirements which had campaign against
Sweet, Ressor, various
been waived for Mc Cunen and. Wiesner. Their cases other opponents,Freed,
and qny'persns who got in
never even appeared before the board,
their way. The tactic was to connect these
John Hughs, a candidate for the board himself, people with SDS, A"highly respecté'd student
was allowed to act in the boards behalf, aid. dis- leader who advocated no candidates cause, was
qualified several students. How this ,wais alo'Wèd one of many malined by Brftton 's organization.
the Scab Sheet has yet to discover, utthat it. -"Brit'ton's
people got to me and started labelwas dbne, even Hughs 'is now preparedto testify. ing m with SDS crap in all
the houses,
McCune won the election -f or director for two I wasn't even campaigning g for anybody." He'll,
years. Both Hughs and'.Wiesñèr are now in the run- Even the Athle.tic Department' got into
the
off e'ection for 'one year terms.
act on the smear athpaign. We quote from Rich
The student Activities Committee also showed Brooks assistant to Dee Andros, in a converobvious favoritism towards administration approved sation w thPhi Delta Theta fraternity
candidates. In an unprecedented move they- 'threw 'Treed is a 'mejber of SDS," Brooks toldmambers.
open all MU facilities and equipment for a poli- members while at the house, "He cut offthe
his
tical candidate, Harold Britten.
hair before he ran and he's still a dope,"
Under' -ASOSU and university regulations no fac- Later in a speech before the house he said
ulty members are allowed to participate in student "Freed is Frasers right hand man," Brooks
elections, campaigns, or politics. 'However, Jos- went on to say, "We don't need any- me John
eph Mgy, instructor in chemistry, was allowed to Frasers,"
"advie" Britton's political organization with
Again, contrary to university regulations,
the sdnction of the committee,
Brooks illegally-entered intd student governTh commettee said t at all candidates would
ment.
be allowed the same privilages as Britton. SevBoth Freed and Sweet signed statement preeral attempted to get recognition. All were turn- pared for publication, and saida "WE
not
ed don because they supposedly didn't meet the now nor will hnve e'èverTheen membersare
of SDS"
"regulations" by committee members and represen- They attempted to get the statement published
tativs and their requests never saw committee in the Bhrometer's fencing column. But a ceraction,
,tain editor, connected with student body offiOn the afternoon that Britton held his rally cials conducting the election, exerted
to see
on the MU steps with MU sound equipment, presidthi- that the letter never saw print.
tial candidate Dennis Freed and vice-presidential
Britten also managed to twist he original
candidate Doug Sweet attempted to get a small
lies into complete distortions, He publically
speaker's platform with a mike for a similar rally stated that the Barometer Editorial Board,
to be held later, Bill TenPas, MU president and made its endorsement with out even interviewing
committee member, turned them down saying they
him. He also told several agricultural prthfcould not use MU facilities or equipment.
essors the same thing. His organization began
-
-:
,..
Later tha,night after a :great many
propagating it However, Twelve members Baromete Ed Board are prepared to testify that they hllot counters had left for home, the fe
DID interview Britton before eniorsins eadithtes.emaiI1ia student body leaders decided to
Besides hritton, there were also other admin- Iave 1tselectiverecoUfltiflg of ballots
istrtive favorites who recieved preferrential for certain post.. Their target were some
so-called liberal candidates who had won
treatment0 Ken J2oss, newly elected 1st Vicepreident had a fraudulent letter written on his their respective contests or else had
made it into tie finals. One girl who had
behalf saying that IFC senator Jerry Burgess
supported him. Jhen the letter appeared iii the been told she was a winner Friday night is
Bardmeter, Burgess asked for retractions and was now a loser. Ron Hart was suddenly elimiriataUowed to write saying he had never supported ed. from H and SS contest after having
Ross
However, some way tie letter just happened been assured that he was in the finals.
Several tbr candidates received the same
to 1iave been buried in t e Barometer Fencing
treatment.
Colurnn
Friday bight Huégli and Zier announSe t1e
"supposed sinners of the Senator-at- Large
III
contest. Accordingto ASOSU election lawg
"If
no candidate receives more than 50% og
Thursday's election was invalidbted fd a
the
otes cast in general elections then
number of reaecns. But chief among them was the
thetwo candidates with the highest number
fact the ballots had been misprinted with
of votes shall proceed to the general
of the candidates' names left off, others run
election"
together and that dlass:and school candidates
There were three positions involved.
were all on one ballot. H owever, on iJednesday
NO
one candidate had O%. Zier's and Hueglis
night, student body and election officials were
steamroller
tactic failed this time, however,
notifIed about the ballots but allowed them to
,
go through anyway.
It wasn't until between 12 and 1 o'clock on
Thursday that the election be halted. All the
ballots were supposed to be gathered and burned
immediately.
Intead the ballot boxes were taken to Dave
Zier's office. Zierand other student leaders
gathered in his office to begi n counting the
illegally held ballots. Ttalternatives were
left open to the student 1eaders. They:cQuld
beause of studetn resistance. Only one
candidate was finally declared elected, Sue
Phel.
The Scab Sheet has discovered
that under present rule she, however, also
did not gain a majority but for some
reasons is being given preferrential
treatment.
Today Dave Rubin and other election
officials have yet to come up with an
official vote count. They have told
several
friends they have found in recounts
hold the election the following day or on
that
tallies
for candidates have varied as
Mond.y. her had already indicated his support
much
as
50%
over their original count.
for ritton, a fraternity brother. A count
The
above
is only a very partial listing
was made. Brittn was ahead in the presidential
of
violations
in this election. Attorneys
race It was decided therefore to go with the
now
tell
certain
studnets affected by the
election on Fridar.
election
scandal
that there are 35 categories
Friday's election turned out to be as poorly
involving
hundreds
of violations for which
run as Thursdays. When some students with
the
alction
should
be
declared invalid.
lpng hair approached the voting ties, the
Criminal
investigations
are also beginning
T ions myste iously ran out of ballots. But
against
certain
student
body
leaders and
in other instances they really did ±iiri out of
administrators
involved.
As
room permits,;
ballots and scores of students were turned away,
the
Scab
Sheet
will
publish
more
of the
It has been discove ed that many of the persons
fraudulent
.cons1iracy
and
violtions
f
manning the tables were neither Talons or Thanes.
which
we
have
proof.
Becuseof
shortage
At these booths some students were allowed to
vote as many as three imes. At almost all the of space, great masses of material have been
bootis, this years seniors were allowed to vote left out 1exe. However, for mqr deta]$,
read the story in this issue corcerning, the
for ext years senior class president.
!tReesor Affair" and the editorial o
Tht night counting bagOn. Mortar Board
accompanying page.
Blue K and Iection board members ar the only
pe':sons who can officially count ballots.
REESOR FIGHTS CONSPIACY
sveral friends of student leaders
Howere
gonna get you in the end. Yes, I
and stnt leaders themseles, weralowed
will"
And they did. Yè, they did. But;
tocouneballots.
not
in
the
way tie lyricist above intende
"The counting of ballots was very sloppy,"
He
wa
talking
abut motives of love and
says a member of Blue Key. Countess were
intenions
of
huggin'.
The administration
expepted to "remernber' figures in counting.
got
Dave
Reesor,
ASOSTT
candidate for President.
"Guessegtimates" were made for the official
though
their
motives
are
rootpd in emotion,
count for mnyacks of ballots. The old ballots
it is fear motivating them, not 1ve, And
whici had been supposedly destroyed turned up
intentions aren't huggin but buggin:',
mystrioi5sy athong the new ballots AWS
Since
David Reesor filed for ASOSU office,
were a complete farce since the Talons and hanes
he
has
been
involved in one continuous hastle
had forgotten to punch the right number.
with
the
administration
through its lackeys-When it was determ net. tht liSrold r±tton
both
student
and
faculty-ty
Their reasons
was in the finals Dave Zier and Jim ueli let
whop and gave each otheb the old athletic for sinbling reesor out for their special
brand of harrassment are not defined by them.
"good luck"slap on the hands. "we've got
(con't on last page)
Harold in now," Zier said.
out
.coLr.
WO'
ST
ENt.
DID IT"
ILiCTICNS MUST BE HALTiD IND INVESTIGATED
Directors waived these requii'ements for two
candidates. This action cen b interpreted
Oregon State students who naively participattwo ways: i) th Board ofD±rectors discred as cdidates in this spring's student governmated lmowingly and intentionally against ono
ment elections, expecting a fair and impartial
applicants in favor of others, or, 2.) all ap-chce to present their views to the voters of
plicants
d not know that they could appel
the campus community for an evaluation of their
to xie Board of Directors for a wver of eli
opinions
d programs by ballot in th election
gibility requirements. I either.case, discriwere effectively prevented from doing so by premine.tion did occure and some applicants were
judiced eligibility requirements, arbitrary and
denied rights which e were extended to others
biased elections proceedures and campaign rules
The student officer and committee responsible
dthe outrageous mismanagement ot the election
for this discrination
e. Dave Rubin and the
d encouragement of dirty politics by student
senate
Sevices
and
Elections
Committee. They
government
failed to provide the necessary information
There were many candidates who lost, and some
rules which could have extended impartial
who-won, who feel t at they were not fairly deal
oPportity
to all applicts0
th in the elections
some of those who won
Furthur evidence that the system operated
say that they did not do so through and intrinsic
for and against some candidates is supplied
merit of unusual effort of their own,but by acbythe fact that only two applicants filed for
cident: because their name appeared first on the
waive of qualifacations. The other Ttunquali
ballot of because their supporters happened to
applicants were advised by students in
not have voted in the aborted Thursday eiections,fie
the activity center,ostensibly members of the
or because their mane happened to make it into
EleectiLns Committee, that they were ineligible
the Voter's Guide, or because, and by chance,
They were not told that they could apply for a
they happened to get the right set of rules for
waier of qualifacations.
campaigning in. the residence halls, or because
The discrepancies in the application and optheir vote tally happened to be the magic number
eration of the eligibilities rules was only the
that fit the weird arithmetic of the Elections
fi±'st disheartefling experiance for candidates
Committee, or because they had a "friend" in'stuThere were many more to come. For one candiiatc:
dent government or the administration. For all
filing for ASOSU president, his next hassle .iao
these reasons and many more that had nothing to
in getting a copy of. the ASOSU Elections Prcce
do with their politics and their platform, a
edures and Campaign Pules, a pamphlet handed
mumbèr of students survived the Primary elections
out
to every other filing candidate. This :ca
and re disenchanted not because the won, but
didate had to get a notarised letter, backd
by the maimer in which they did
by-the trheat of a lawsuit, requesting that he
Näny of those students who lost feel that it
be provided with such a pamphlet.
It was ewas not their .failure, but the failure of the
luctantly
delivered
up
by
Dave
Rubin,
chairman
system. Some of their dejection can be attribuof
Senate
Services
and
Elections
Committee.
ted
their finishing out-ot-the-running, When
Such action is obvious instance of intentional
they say "1 would never do it again", they are
obstruction and harrassmant, but no."responsiexpressing a conclusion based on thier evaluatio
ble" administrat of student government officer
of the management ot the campaign by student govintervi.eied on behalf of the candidate.
ermment, not upon a criticism of thépolitics of
For other candidates who had cleared the
thier fellow candidates.
eligibility hurdle, there were other problems
Dirty politics are not the sourse of the losers
besides securing a copy of the rules. Their
disenchantment with the campaign and the election
roblem
was getting a clear and generally apThe ource is, instead, the prejudiced rules of
plicable interpretation of the "rules+ and
ineligibility and the process of establishing
proceedures'. Some (most) never did. Again
them, the interference in the campain.by the
Dave Rubin and his elections committee managed
faculty and. a&inistrators, and the outrgeous
to confuse, mislead, and discriminate against
bumbleing, mismanagement of the campaign and
candidate. Pubin and his committee were re-elections by student government through its cornsponsible fo servicing the rule that all crnmittées and officers. And their reaction to
paign
posters, flyers, and such had to be stamped
thief experiance is justified.
approved
before they could be posted or handed
A the outset, the rules of eligibility and
out. Yet, on the day and eve of the opening
the process of enforceng the prejudiced the outcome of the election.. Not only were the winners of the campaign, neither ubin, nor mambera. of
his committee were available to do the stampobvious, but some r*d a better chance than others
ing. Or if they- were aroung, their.presence
and nost winners wodid be chosen by chance and
was not publicised. One of the leadeing cannot n the basis. of effort or merit. Some
didates for ASOSU. president had to stop and
deit
were forced to go' through a lang process
of v.lidating their eligibility claims, Because executive officer of the student gove±'nment
of the boycott of classes last winter term, can- and have his that officre sign his posters Ln
dida.es were filing for office who had not corn- the middle of the night in the çuad. And. it
as a total matter .of chne tiat this officer
pletd twelve hours of credit winter term. They
happened
to encounter this. candidate as he was
had ecieved incompletes ithder the discretionary
leaving
the
commons.
claude passed by the Faculty Senate, which made
Other
candidates
were not so fortunate; they
it them eligible if the I's on thier transcripts
did
not
get
their
posters
up until the following
resulted from participation in the boycott. To
day and evening. Some wete mor,e "fortunate
prove that the I's were from this sourse, they
had to have professors state such in letters or Their posters were all stamped "approved" ad
ready to be erected. That this practice of
over the phone. While these candidates were
fighiing for thier eligibility, other candidates Rubin and the Election Cnmittee was discriminatory can not be argued.' And that it affected
were out campaigning.
appiica_the
outcome of the election can only be argied
In anot}er instance of discriminatory
in terms of degree. But that argument is invalid
tion of the eligibility rules, some students
because there should have i'en no degree; there
filing to run for the possition of MU Board of
should have been no oportunity for advantage
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nor his political ad in the Voters' Guide
Rubin's mis-management of the campaign 1dflOt
or the aroimeter. He missed the final by
end with the stamping foul-up; hr went onto
only eight votes. The candate who wonc
bigger things. Those things were the confusing
his race had,,his name and ad run oi Friday,'
of candidates on how they might. conduct their
He published one set pf rules, which the day of the "good balloting."
carnpa.ign.
On Thursday, the voters went to the uolls
stated that candidates campaigns in all residence
t0
pick the winners of the campaigns. Was
halls were subject to new rules'which restricted
Rugin
and the Elections. Qoitteé prepared
the amount and places where campaign material
for them? Yes, with a ballot that 's as
might be posted and campaigning crried. 'on.
badly botched as the,.Vters' Guide. A
Those rules were almost totally misleading,
ballot so bay botched 5tt the votg
They applied, only. to one residence hull; McNay. had to be stopped soa new ballot
The other residence halls. aad. different rulings
could be made-up and fprinted. But.he botched
on campaign material and campaigning.
ballot was not th only factor that contributed
Pubin knew or learned, at any rate was aware
he closng..ofthe pll. T1e Talons aild
later, of his mistake, but printed no rettion,t0
Thanes,
ad pther eople who had io businésa
correction, or clear statment to give diiction
the voting booths, were not given the
orientation by Rubinnd his ComrEiittee,'
according to one set of rules,and some conducte'°'
the ballo't'ñrke'd in
to allow
their cpaign according to another, In the"
a proper fashion.
ASO3U Campaign Pr0cedures and Election Pules
After Thursday, which should have been the
McNay Hall was identified as the only residence
could be
end of the whole fiasco until
hall with the new Fules. In the Voter's Guide '
properly
planned
and
superised
to
result-in
all the residence halls were described as
a
"fair,
and
±xpartial"
cat
agn'
'd. elect,ioh
campaigning and
to all candidates.
Some conducted their
it
cmpaign materials by
limijing..
the new,,rules:.
The next bungle in the management "df the
for all candidates the 'msmanagements of
tile
election dAno,t ,decree but cntinuedhd"
involved the Voter's Guide, a pamphlet baame more serious as it became more effec'which could only guide voters to make mistakes 'tave.
Fr1d! there was more disorganization
in casting their ballots. The names of candi- andOnconfusion
at the voting booths.
campaign
The polls
dates were left out and miss-spelled, candidates
did
uot
open
until
late,
9
30
AM--a
concessio
were left off the front page, and political ads
made by RtIbin t a candidate an his lawyer,
were not run
ads for which candidates paid
Rubin's
five dollars and have received no refunds. Cand_t0 make up for an earlier bungle of
There were long lines at the polls, too long
idates protested their being left out of the
for some students to wait through during class
Voter's Guide
For some, the Election Committee
breaks. The boots were constantly rnning
made a futile effort at meeting their obligation
out of ballots, and hainng to wait while new
by publishing ther names in the Barometer. But
ones were rii pff. Talons and Thanes and
this action only further increased the discrimvolunteers manniag the booths stil], lacked
inaton caused by the initial ommission. The
enough orientatIon to provide the .right: ballots
Baroxaeter was forced to publish ad on 'the day
to the right voters. There were too few booths
o± voting, discriminating against other candiand to.o few .sta,' to man them.
dates who could nqt campaign.on election day.
When the.polls wée 'closed, the ballots were
Rubii'a solutions to his bungles onlr added
to rooms nect to the 'Barometer officea
hurt to harm. And even his 'aggravaing solutions
in the MU Building. Mortar Board and Blue
never reduced the harm nor increased the
Key traditiona.ly do the counting, and they
hurt'to some candidates. One student running
were there. But there were,,no tally. sheets
for Senator-at-Large never did get his name
ready for them. Thef'ha'mnkethe'ir'own
-
.
-
And, they had to set up their; own..systern to
'
organize their efforts to count the ballots.
Their firstmove against Reesor came but o
'here was Rubin' where was any organization
day after he filed to run for office.. He was
and plannlng for the ballot coimt' Both Missing,stopped at the Activities Ceiter by Dave RXbin,
RuUagith good reason
a candidate as looking and asked about his grades and unit hours
fo:- him with a notarized letter from his lawyer ofthe winter term. Accordiig to Reesor,
denia+ding that Rubin provide him with a descrip- he told Rubin that he carried nine hours difring
tiolTof the process to appeal the discriminatory winter term.
actioi of
Rubin against:Ihim iii thecampaign.
Rubin immediately informed Reesor that he.
The students doingthe counting encountered some.was nligibie to run for office. Reesor
other of Rubints mistakes, in their effort to getasked why. Pubin retaliated with the rule from
a vote tally. Some of the ballots, supposedly
the Student Handbook, that to be eligible to
destroyed, cast in Thursday's aborted voting
hold office a student must have completed 12
keptturning up among the new ballots. Also
hoi.ths of study.the previous term; a fac1
mostof the ballots cast for AWS Senator had
omitted from the pamphlet of rules and proceto be thrown awaybècause the method of marking cures handed out to candidates.
iiiva1idated them,
But ineligibility didn't stick because a grad
Even after the votes were counted and tallied, student can take at the mos only 12. hours and
the fairness and impartiality of the elction
were:not safe from Rubints bungling. He
is considered a full timelr student if he takes
8,
Peesor related this to Rubin along with the
raanaged to pick a wiuner in the Senator-at-
infornation tha he had taken nine hours winter
Large race, when It hbuIdav been impossible
term.
.
Rubin agreed that Reesor was eligible,
..
agaihi.
This recoguait.on of graduate students with
only nine credit hours per term as qualified
canciidates was the first of many rules that Rubin
changed or fabricated in the week that followed.
eesor's next hastle with Rubin came five
days later, a period during which Reesor, unkrThis time Pubin had
owingly, lNas inelligible
declared him inelligible, without infoimingReesor f his 1eçision. Reesor found out by accident through,.
Barometer reporter,
Confronting Rubin, Reesor found out that he
was inelligible this time because three of the
because there
no way to tell haow many otes
were cast for each one of the Senator-at-Large
.
positions. He did so bysaying that any aridioee who polled one more vote than one-sixth
of all votes cast for Senator-at-Large wins
tne office without having to compete in the
fia elections, There is no rule in the OSU
Haro.book which sanctions such an a rbitrary
coion
The final act in the. farce was played when
a reount of votes cast, for some pesitions was
taken, and candidates who had been winners
Friday night and had invested in campaign
ma trials .f or the final electio were notified nine winter term hours rere incomplete.
Rubin
Sati:day afternoon tbat they now were losers,
was adamant this time, Reesor contacted th HuSo ends the primary campaign and election,
man Pights Commission, whose chairman, Olcifild,
raybe. Rubin may add another scene to the first advised him to have his professor explain to
Rubinthat the incomplete was not to be held'agact...At.any rate, the' second act, the final
ainst .hm because he earned it during the boycott.
elèction1-is coming up and unless the Student
Senate intervenes , Dave 'Rubin is scheduled to
The professor contacted 'Rubin by phone,but
be master of ceremonies for:it. No one who
Rubin.was still adamant But.he changed his
has followed or participated in the primaries
mind when a. man called Stevens, over the phpne,
can hold ny optiiism about an improvnnt in thetold Rubin to give Reesor. eligibility. Rub.n
operation of the finala....
Rubiñ will
make'.a
reluctantly complied,, according to Reesor.
botch of them too.
But the little drama wasn't over. Bubin did
But Pubin should not be given a chance to do
not take down the sign on the MU bulletin board,
so,
Infact, if there is an ounce of integrity
declaring Reesor's inel.gibi1ity, until eesor
in the Student Senate, it will calla halt to the threatened Pubin with a court injunction, a:threat
present elections., and. initiate an investigation he was to have to repeat many times in the next:
to discover the total extent of the harm done
few days.
.......
by Rubin and try to undo it. The Scab Sheet
The next step in Rubin's little tango was in
insists that these elections must be stopped,
the one nd only meeting of the Elections CommiAnd
inaists that
concerned and responsiblettee, which Reesor attended
At the meeting,
stt.dents must appear in the Student Senate
Reesor was protesting his name being left off the
tonight in room 106 of the MU building to remind front page of the Voter's Guide
The Committee
the Senatd of its responsibilities, and to
would do nothing to rectify the advantage their
demonstrat,e to the candidates, both winners and mis-management of Reesor 's canddacy had given
.
.
it
all
losera, who will present their grievances that other canc]idates ileesor threatened to retain an
they iaye..th,e support of'the'studsnt'body. .'
attorney. The Conmittee changed its.:'mind, and
Or th.t. portion of the student body hibh gives" agreed to put ,'somethi:gh' in the Barometer saya damn Come to Senate and let them know that
ing Feesor is eligible.
the sa-ictity of their social club is only in
Justifiably not satisiied with the something
ther heads, that what they do affedts the lives the committee wanted to pring in the Baro, Reesor
'
of people.1
contacted Chairman Oldfield again
01dfeld sug-
gested Reesor contact t1e university attorney.
According to,..Reesor, the university
attorney wa.
"
FEB50? FIGHTS CONSPIRACY(con't)
nted he and Pubin '1to make up
-
Feeling that he could no longer expect help,
But we can guess what some. of them might be.
from the university, Reesor sought an attorney.
Reesor has long hair and he talks about correctingxpenses being added to the burden of harraspractices which Oregon State doesn't admit exist. ment and lost time.
At any rate, regardless of their reasons and
Reesor and his attorney appeared before the
intentions, their methods are obvious, sometime. Elections Committee, and forced them to mak certain concessions. This effort by Reesor re&ulted
in the correction of other mistakes and deletions
.
SP. SAC
in the
Voter's Guide