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Polls Stay Open Today
In Spite Of Shutdown

By Tom Adams
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Student Council and Judiciary
elections that were scheduled for
today will be held, Gordon Calvert,
chairman of the Political Societies
and Elections Committee of the
Student Council, announced at last
night's meeting of the Council.

He said that the polls would be
open until 3 this afternoon. He met
with the presidents of the three
political societies and a
representative of the independent
candidates prior to the Council
meeting and it was decided there to
keep the polls open today. Mr.
Calvert said an agreement was
reached, however, to reopen the
polls after the Christmas vacation,
if the total number of persons
voting in the College election was
not over 1,200.

Z Donation

Mr. Calvert reported that he had
received a check for $75 from the Z
Society covering the cost of the
voting machines, and later on in the
meeting a resolution of thanks was
passed unanimously.

In other business, Ron
Hickman, who last week was
appointed to chair a committee to
study the Council's current rules on
demonstrations, recommended two
changes in the demonstration
procedure.

No longer will those wishing to
demonstrate have to report the
number of demonstrators or the
boundaries they will keep inside of
prior to the demonstration. Also no
one member of any group will be
held responsibility for maintaining
order at the demonstration.

Further Changes

Mr. Hickman indicated that
these were only preliminary
changes, and that after George
McMillan's committee on Student
Rights and University Regulations
makes its report, further changes
could be made.

Individual representatives of the
Council were angry over the lack of
success that the Council's
suggestions to the Board of Visitors
enjoyed. Charles Murdock, at one
point early in the meeting asked
"What are we going to do about
Rick Evans' disobedience of our
instructions [to attend the
meeting]. Mr. Evans, who was not
present at last night's meeting,
waited for three hours to attend the
Board of Visitors' meeting in its
entirety, but was denied that
privilege.

Change in Rules

Mr. Murdock then presented a
motion calling for the Council to
make and enforce parietal rules. In
October the Council passed three
motions making suggestions to the
Visitors but because of a "mistake"
in the Dean's office, the Board was
not informed of these motions until
the meeting began and thus took no
action on them at the December
meeting.

Mr. Murdock pointed out in his
motion that the power to make and
enforce dormitory rules was
delegated to the Council by the
Council's constitution.

No Excuse

Walker Chandler said there was
no excuse for the Board of Visitors
not taking any action on the
question of dormitory rules and
visitation privileges. "It's hard for
them [the Board of Visitors] to
pretend that this hasn't been put
before them before," he said.

Mr. Chandler said that it was a
question "of what we are going to
do now that our President was
locked out of that meeting [of the
Board of Visitors] or, should I say,
he waited obediently outside the
meeting for three hours."

Eating Watermelon

"I mean, we can cat
watermelon from now until
February if we like," he said.

Gordon Calvert said he thought
that the motion of Mr. Murdock
raised "serious" constitutional
questions. He said he was uncertain
as to whether the motion was in the
"scope of our authority."

Mr. Chandler replied that he did
not care about the Council's
authority, but, he said, "our
responsibility is to those poor
Klutzes in the dormitories. If we
don't act now," he continued, "all
we'll end up with is the hairy end
of a lollipop!"

Mr. Murdock's motion,
however, was tabled by the
Councilmen.

Bud Ogle presented a motion
asking that since the University has
just recently hired a Black recruiter,
that the deadline for applications to
the University be extended until
March 15 so that he could recruit
some students.

End of Recruiting

Mr. Ogle explained that "Dean
Ern has said that for all extents and
purposes recruiting ends in
December." He said this motion
would require the Office of
Admissions to hold a few "slots"
open and might require the
admissions officers to "work a little
harder."

His motion passed unanimously.

Ron Hickman reported on the
Board of Visitors meeting. He
noted that the new procedure for
the distribution of the Student
Activities fees was approved,
although no increase in it was.

After the meeting, which was
held in the Ballroom of Newcomb
Hall because of an Honor Trial, the
councilmen retreated to George
McMillan's residence on Brown's
Mountain, for a year-end party to
fortify them for the coming year.