University of Virginia Library

15 File Petitions
As Fight Begins
In Council Race

By Peter Shea
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Fifteen students filed their petitions
before yesterday's deadline
and are officially candidates for
Student Council in the upcoming
College elections.

Four men have announced their
candidacy for the Judiciary Committee
election which will fill two
posts in those same elections. The
fifteen Council candidates are running
for five seats.

All of the nominees of the three
political parties selected in caucuses
earlier this week have filed their
petitions. These include, from the
Sceptre Society, Steve Hayes, Joel
Gardner and Bill Fryer, and from
Skull and Keys, Don Martin, Chip
Massey and Ken Scott.

The five candidates from the
Virginia Progressive Party, formerly
referred to as the New Party, are
Buzzy Waitzkin, Tom Gardner, Paul
Bishop, Al Sinesky and Charles
Murdock.

Two Liquifactionist Party candidates,
Robert Blankenship and
James Woll, have also thrown their
hats into the Council ring while two
Independents, Peter Freinberg and
J. Keen Holland, round out the list
of contenders.

Candidates from only two
parties are running for the Judiciary
positions. Byron Shankman and Bill
Gordon of Skull and Keys will face
the two Sceptre Society nominees,
Bill Buck and Gene Webb.

Ballot boxes will be placed at
the following 14 locations: Fourth
Floor entrance to Wilson Hall,
Fourth Floor East Cabell Hall,
Fourth Floor West Cabell Hall,
First Floor Cabell Hall, Rugby
Road, Madison Lane, and Second
Floor Newcomb Hall.

Other polling places will be Main
Floor Physics Building, Gilmer Hall,
New Chemistry Building, Tuttle
House Post Office, Emmet House
Post Office, the Library and Newcomb
Hall Grill.

The elections are scheduled for
May 13 and 14 and polls will be
open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. both
days. A forum of the Council
candidates will be held on May 7.

Besides choosing the representatives
to the two governmental
bodies, the voters will decide two
other issues.

One is an amendment to the
Council Constitution which would
lower the percentage limit of
voters in an election for passing an
amendment from the present 60
per cent to 50 per cent.

The second is the Judiciary
Constitution which would, among
other things, allow women to run.