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Letters: Candidates Replies
To Recent Feature Article

As a personal friend of the
candidates for Student Council,
Walter Schumacher and Edgar
Gentry, and as a candidate myself,
I feel I must protest your
feature article on 30 April on the
Anarchist Party. This gave the
Anarchists publicity far greater
than what we independents can
afford. Even if we could afford
it, the cost of an ad in the CD
as big as that article might force
us over the limit on campaign
expenses.

I am sure you didn't intend
that article to be an advertisement,
but in effect it was. Both the Anarchists
and we are at a publicity
disadvantage with respect to the
three Establishment groups. Now
you have given the Anarchists
widespread publicity, without even
so much as asking the three independents
for an interview. This
is grossly unfair, and a radical
departure from your usual scrupulous
concern to give the candidates
equal coverage.

Your free publicity to the Anarchists
was also irresponsible.
They are running as a joke, without
any platform. We have a platform
which seriously and precisely
deals with major problems in student
life, and our campaign is a
joke only in the impossible odds
which we face, considering that
we are running without the backing
of any organization. We felt obligated
to spend time and money
in order to offer the College a
real choice between action and inaction
on Council. Even though
we are sure it was not intentional,
your article has hurt our campaign.

Charles J. Gambill, III

If you think the Anarchists are
running as a joke, you should not be
worried about any publication their
campaign might receive. We would
not be adverse to giving you and
your fellow independents coverage of
the same sort as that the Anarchists
received. Their story, however, was
not intended as advertisement or free
publicity; it was no more than an
interesting feature story on a rather
unusual and colorful campaign, one
of the sort that is seldom, if ever,
seen at the University.—Ed.

Eliminate Eliminators

Up to now I've really gotten a
kick out of Student Council elections.
I guess the reason I've
enjoyed them so much is because
they were so easy. All I had to
do was show up at one of the
little boxes, sign my name for the
watchman in the three-piece suit,
and pick a name, any name (I
often flipped a coin), and leave
with conscience eased and troubles
over. I had done my part. But
this year everything has changed.
Two punks are actually threatening
to represent me. They actually
want to do something. So now,
instead of feeling I've helped some
lucky look-alikes get into law
school somewhere, or at least given
them the opportunity to learn the
value of growing old gracefully
while writing nice, polite letters
to whatever administrator happened
to be in the routine for that
week (imagine the prayerful consideration
those letters received on
they way to the permanent files
of assorted wastebaskets!), I've got
to worry about two idiots who are
going to mean something even after
the election is over and they have
won. Isn't there any way to have
the names of Messrs. Chandler
and Mudock removed from the
ballot, before my lethargy is completely
destroyed by the Anarchists?

Printer's Oversight

Due to an oversight by the
printer some qualifications for
Jerry Clapp, Theta Tau candidate
for Judiciary Committee, were
omitted on the campaign posters.
The qualifications that should have
been included are: Theta Delta
Chi social fraternity, president,
treasurer, Executive Committee,
IFC representative, Undergraduate
Lieutenant—Governor of the
National Theta Delta Chi Fraternity.

A Loss

For Carl,

Carl Gibson was a quiet guy
until you got to know him. A
hard worker and a guy who did
the difficult things without complaining.....

Well liked because of his leadership
was by example—in his fraternity,
on the CD, in the Navy Unit..

I know he was that kind of
Marine, too.

The University lost a son Wednesday.