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Students Defeat Anti-Funding Measure;
College Returns Incumbents To Council

By BARBARA BROWNELL

CD/Dan Grogan

Students Count The Sentiments Of The University

Sixteen candidates from
the College, Schools of
Engineering and Law and the
Graduate School of Arts
and Sciences won Student
Council and Judiciary
Committee seats in elections
Wednesday and yesterday
Voter turnout in all schools
was sparse.

Council representatives
chosen were Rod Singleton,
Mark Vorder Bruegge, Dave
Horan, Scott Tollefsen and
Paul Freeman of the College,
Jim Curry of the
Engineering School,
Timothy Davis from the Law
School and Robert C.
Funderburk from the
Graduate School.

Mr. Funderburk, a
write-in candidate, won his
seat with three votes.

Of the six College
candidates for vacant
Judiciary Committee
positions, Brad Face Norvell
Rose and Tom Pfister
garnered 759, 697 and 684
votes, respectively, to win the
election Engineering
candidates for Judiciary
Steven Rice and Bill Hughes
won with 186 and 145 votes.
Unopposed Law School
candidate Tom Ross won 228
votes.

Name Changed

In the first referendum on
the ballot, students voted
2308 to 729 to change the
name of the Student Council
O and P (Organizations and
Publications) Committee to
the Appropriations
Committee.

Students defeated a second
proposed change by a vote of
1990 to 1549. The second
question proposed that
"Student Council shall be
prohibited from disbursing
funds collected from
mandatory student fees to
any organization or
publication which takes a
stand on political issues or
which undertakes to effect
political change."

30 Per Cent Turn Out

With about 30 per cent of
the total student body and
35 per cent of College
students voting in the
election, College Council
candidates captured the
following numbers of votes:
Mr. Singleton, 959; Mr.
Horan, 821; Mr. Tollefsen,
777; Mr. Vorder Bruegge,
717; Mr. Freeman, 650;
Kathy Nunneley, 626; Greg
St. Ours, 491; Judy Wagner,
490; Bo Smith, 471. David
Kennedy, 400; Danny Barkin,
386; Arnold Albert, 317; Paul
Nelson, 308; John Buckley,
307 Robert Topping 278;
David Raa 199

In the Engineering School
Mr. Curry carried 182 votes
and Gary Pavis 142, while
Law candidate Mr. Davis
carried 186 votes in Council
elections.

In Judiciary elections,
losing Engineering candidate
Tom Gorush received 130
votes and Doug Kelly 119
Defeated College Judiciary
candidates John Doswell
Peter Glubiak and Bert Ellis
received 564, 482 and 478
votes, respectively.

"I think the elections
came out as expected," said
Student Council President
Jim Rinaca "I'm glad to see
the return of incumbents
Dave Horan Rod Singleton,
and Scott Tollefsen and am
pleased to see the election of
two well-qualified newcomers.
Mark Vorder Bruegge has
been a valuable worker for
Student Council and Paul
Freeman is one of our
outstanding first-year men.
Among other things he was
the first student to serve on
a county school board."

"I think it's interesting,"
he continued, "that a
graduate student was elected
to the Council. In past years
these students have not
usually run for a position
and have had to be
appointed instead.

Pleased By Outcome

"I am also pleased with
the outcome of the
referendum vote especially
the second one. The fact that
the proposal was defeated
shows clearly that students
have confidence in the way
Council has been handling
their money," he added.

"I'm really surprised about
the outcome," commented
victor Paul Freeman. "As a
first-year man I didn't think
I had that much of a
chance."

Third-year student Dave
Horan said he is "looking
forward to an increase of
communication between the
Council and the student
body" and is working for
greater student involvement.