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  • Tfe VvEsrei^i QareiL»MiaM VOIIK OF THE STI OK\TS VOL. XXXVIII No 52 Tuesday April 24, 1973 Western Carolina University Cullowhee, North Carolina Wilson Charges Violations Rogers, Sparks Lead In Light Voter Turn-Out A light turnout of voters in last week's student government elections put Scott Lindsay and Harold Rogers into a Thursday run-off for president of the student body, but a possible challenge to the election by third-place runner Ed Wilson may postpone the run-off. Dwight Sparks and Wardell Townsend are scheduled to meet again to decide the vice presidential race, Rogers led Thursday's ballot with 470 votes, followed ay Lindsay with 339 and Wilson with 315, In the vice presidential race, Sparks had 341 votes and Townsend garnered 319, The four other candidates finished well back in the count. Joe Digges received 174 votes and Mary Morrison got 125. Charles Newman received 75 votes and last place finisher James Burris Jr. got 27. A total of 1124 students voted SGA attorney general Chris Troutman was first in line Thursday morning as the polls opened. Less than 25% of the eligible voters participated in the balloting. A run-off is scheduled for Thursday to decide the two top positions, (Staff photo by R. Paul Smith) Cullowhee Country Fair Set May 9th Plans have been announced for the first annual Cullowhee Country Fair to be held May 9 on the University Center's front lawn. Sponsored by the WCL residence hall governments, the faii- will include all kinds of entertainment in a carnival setting. Doth Dodson and Brown cafeterias will be dosed for the evening meal that day, and dinner will be served on the University Center grounds. Campus organizations are invited to set up booths at the fair and the fair's steering committee has made a number of suggestions for types of booths. Suggestions include a watermelon seed spitting contest, crafts sales, rummage sales and all kinds of musical entertainment I^ocal musical groups and singers are invited to perform. To reserve space at the fair, the sponsor should telephone the Reynolds Hall office between 7:00 and 10:00 p,m, each night this week. A S5,00 fee is required to reserve a booth and should be presented at an or= ganizational meeting set for Wednesday, April 25 at 7:00 p,m, in Killian 109, Hall governments of Helderp Moore and Reynolds residence halls are acting as the Fail's steering committee, and a set of regulations has been adopted, Thirty tables and fifteen additional spaces are available. Advisory Committee To Be Named This Week Members of the eleven-member advisory committee to assist in selecting a new dean for the School of Arts and Sciences are expected to be announced this week, The committee will aid in the search for a successor to Dr. J. Gerald Eller, whose resignation as dean will become effective June 30, The advisory committee will include six Arts and Sciences faculty members elected by the faculty of the school. Faculty elections for the sixproffessors will be held on Wednesday. Five other members to be appointed by Dr. Wilson will include a division chairman and department head from Arts and Sciences, a faculty member from another WCL school and two students. Wilson said the five appointed members will be named "after full consultation withtheappro- priate constituencies." The make-up of the advisory CONTINUED Page 4 . .. . in the election. Approximately 4600 students were eligible to vote. In a statement to the Western Carolinian last night, James Shive, chairman of the Committee for Wilson for President, announced that he would go before the SGA Supreme Court today to request an injunction to postpone Thursday's run-off election on grounds that "there were violations of the CSGA) constitution which made available opportunities for impropriety." Shive's statement was an apparent reference to the method used to count the ballots. At 3:00 p.m., three hours before the polls were scheduled to close, one of the three ballot boxes was removed from the polling table in the University Center lobby by senate advisor Dr. Clifford Lovin, SGA President Dwight Nelson and vice president I-arry Ford. According to Lovin, the ballots in the box were counted in the.SGA offices on the second floor of the University Center and, in an apparent violation of die SGA constitution, were counted by persons other than student senators. The constitution requires that the President of the Senate, who is SGA vice president Ford, appoint an Flection Manager or managers "to see that order and dignity is present at the polls and that all rules of procedure are followed." Ford had appointed Dwight Nelson as the election manager. The constitution further states that "the President of the Senate together with the Election • Manager shall be the custodian of the ballot boxes, and they along with the President of the Student Government Association and the Student Senators designated by the President of the Senate shall count the ballots under the supervision of the advisor of the Senate." In his statement, Shive said "We believe that certain constitutional procedures were broken and /or not followed which may or may not have had influence on the election. As conceVncd students we believe it is both our duty and our right to bring to question these violations "of guaranteed constitutional rights, "These alleged violations which we believe to have been committed by Election Manager Nelson and/or Vice President Ford have led us to seek to secure an injunction from the Student Supreme Court, to impound the ballot for the run off election which whs tentatively scheduled for this Thursday and ask mat the court postpone said election until we can present our case before the court," Shive concluded. "We don't want a recount," Shive said. "We believe the count was essentially correct. We just believe there were violations of the procedures" as set forth in the SGA constitution, he said. If an injunction were to be granted and the run-off postponed, it would effect both the presidential and rice presidential races. It is conceivable that the results of the election could be thrown out and a new election held. Supreme Court Chief Justice Keith Ramsey said last night that Shive had not discussed the case with him, "The senate is in charge of election procedure," Ramsey- said. "I'm sure we have jurisdiction on constitutional matters, but we will have to read the case." Ramsey indicated that the Court would probably meet in the Catamount Room in the University Center sometime tonight to decide the issue, but he was unable to announce a definite time. Shive indicated that he and former SGA public defender Wayne Cooper would plead Wil- on's case before the Court, As Ramsey is also campaign manager for vice presidential candidate Dwight Sparks, there is a possibility that he will have to remove himself from the case as a conflict of int= erest situation might otherwise exist. Senate advisor lx>vin said last night th-it he was unaware at the time that only senators were supposed to do the counting. Lovin said tha* senators, SGA office personnel and several students were enlisted to count the ballots. "The idea was to get the bulk of them counted so we could finish early," I,ovin said. "I simply assumed we were going according to proper procedures, and I'm sorry we weren't, Apparently there were violations ." But Lovin emphasized that no information about the ballot count was leaked by the vote counters. "There was nothing done out of the wry," he said, "The count was done correctly, properly, fairly and honestly. Wc were careful to stay in the room." The ballots in the single box were counted four times, but I-ovin wa s pre sent for only three of the counts. During the last one, he was called away to sit in on a faculty committee meeting in a nearby University- Center room. He also said that Election Manager Nelson left the room to print additional ballots on the SGA mimeograph machine, as more were needed. In a statement last night, Nelson said: "It's obvious from counting the ballots thai Mr. Wilson was not the choice of the students for student body president. He even states In his letter of appeal that he does not question the vote count nor the outcome. It seems ridiculous that anyone running for the highest elective office under the SGA constitution and admitting that he was not the choice under a fair election should attempt to distort the election process with petty innuendoes." Larry Ford, Senate president and the officer constitutionally responsible for the elections, said last night that the senate is solely responsible for the elections. "With regard to Mr, Wilson's accusations, I still maintain that all constitutional outlines were followed in a correct manner and all persons who were chosen to assist in the counting of the ballots and in the general conduct of the election were chosen under the powers granted to the president of the senate by the SGA constitution and I will state officially that the election is a valid one and the count is correct. I don't believe there is any question of constitutional interpretation involved," Ford maintained. "As I read the constitution, the senate is the proper authority empowered to conduit the elections and to resolve any questions that ma,, arise." Bluegrass Festival Saturday WCU's 3rd Annual Spring Bluegrass festival will be held Saturday, April 28th. Headlining this year's festivities are Bill Monroe and Lester Flatt. The event will begin at 6 p.m, in Reid Gymnasium and will be MC'd by Marc Pruett, Also appearing in this years musical collocation of pickers and singers are such bluegrass CONTINUED Page 4 , . . .
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