Miami Hurricane, October 22, 1968

              SDS To Picket LeMay
Weinberg
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UM Students for a Democratic Society are planning to picket General Curtis LeMay today when he delivers a speech to the Kiwanis Club at Coral Gables Country Club.
SDS has received a "blanket permit" from the city police to pass out literature and picket. The group must keep moving and not block the sidewalk said Bob Weinberg, SDS chairman. Students from Brevard Junior College, Biscayne College and Barry College are also planning to participate In the 12:15 p.m. demonstration Weinberg said.
“The law right now is being flagrantly violated with full knowledge of the police on practically every campus in Florida.”
The group will have a table today from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Student Union breezeway, where petitions supporting this proposal will be available for students to sign. The petitions will be presented to the Florida state legislature for consideration.
"If we get enough support at UM to make an impression, according to the democratic system, there’s no reason why the Florida legls-
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Spectacular Half-time Show
... with the Impact of Bran at IIM-VPI game
Voi. 44 No. 12
October 22, 1968
284-4401
USG Polls Get 1600 Tur
Nixon Top Choice In Student Poll
By STACY HORNSTEIN
Hurrleant St»H Writer
Richard Nixon gleaned a margin of more than 100 votes over Hubert Humphrey in the undergraduate Presidential Opinion Poll Friday.
Eugene McCarthy, whose name was not inserted on the ballot until noon Thursday, came in a poor third. George Wallace trailed him by 50 votes.
The election committee had instructed the company renting the voting machines to include space on the ballots for write-in candidates, but it failed to do so. Therefore, until noon, students only had the option of three presidential candidates.
The committee did not realize that the space had been omitted until the polls opened Thursday morning, a spokesman said.
Write-in ballots were im-
Ten Seats
K'CÁRTHr
By STACY HORNSTEIN
HuniciM Stiff Writer
Ten class representative seats were filled in last Thursday and Friday’s USG elections. A total of 40 candidates ran for class representative.
There were only two students running for senior class representative, Mark Lampl and Richard Wheeler.
Four candidates ran for junior representative. Richard Bergman and Marty Weinkle won the seats in upsets over Jan Welsh and Thomas Good.
Sophomore class representative seats closest race in the election.
had the
mediately mimeographed and they were used instead of the machines after noon.
The machine results were tabulated at noon and then added to the write-in results.
Election committee officials stationed at the polls were instructed to tell voters that the write-in ballot was the only one that would count in the presidential polL
Originally, the presidential vote was slated as an election, but it had to be changed to an opinion poll when the discrepancy occurred.
The poll gave Nixon 576 votes to Humphrey’s 429. McCarthy polled 189 votes and Wallace received 139. In other write-in votes, Pat Paulson received 22 votes. Nelson Rockefeller, 18; John Lindsay seven; Dick Gregory, six; Ted Kennedy, three; Barry Goldwater, one; and Lyndon Johnson, one.
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Voting Machines And Posters
... left over from Friday’s election
lewis Freeman lost by only four votes to Peter Hill. Bob Dorlon took the other seat on the council.
Thirty-one candidates ran for the four open freshman seats. Th^ well-known “Four Freshman” slate swept the freshman votes. Bill Council, John Dohm, Barry Taylor, and Irene Trionfetti composed the winning slate.
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Five Point Referendum Ambiguous
Many students were misled due to the nuclear questions on the five point referendum included with USG representative elections.
Question number one was the most misleading to stu-
dents. The question, "Should there be any dormitory cur-f e w s for undergraduate women?" had 640 students voting for and 649 against.
"Should the University institute an “Open Door”
Alcohol Law Revision Attempted
By MELANI VAN PETTEN
Hurncan« Auf. Ntwa Editor
A group of UM honor students plan to attempt a revision of the Florida state alcoholic beverage law.
The students, who are sponsored by the Order of the Purple Thread, want to see the drinking age lowered to 18 for beer and wine of specified alcoholic content.
“We are proposing this because of the hypocritical way the present law Is being enforced, or rather ignored," said Richard Burton, one of the organizers of the group.
bedroom visitation policy in all male living areas?” had 1,-054 vote for and 228 votes against.
There were 979 votes for the University to institute an “Open Door” visitation policy in all the co-educational living areas. There were 293 against the amendment.
The largest voter margin was if there should be a voluntary attendance policy for all undergraduate students that are in good standing with the University. 1,063 voted for and 210 voted against.
"Should the Health Center be allowed to prescribe contraceptives” had 940 for and 347 against.
"As far as I know, they will not be holding a new referendum,” said Vida Levin, election committee chairman.
Jim Yasser, sophomore representative, is considering the entry of the first question on the referendum to USG council for reconsideration.
finest elections we have experienced in recent years. The large number of candidates and voters brought forth an atmosphere of spirit and enthusiasm in the election. It was conducted in a way consistent with the best spirit and tradition of the undergraduate student government,” commented William Sheeder, Director of Student Activities.
Vida Levin, chairman of the election committee, stated, “I believe the elections went off well with over 1,600 students voting. We thank USO and the UM Hostesses for manning the voting booths.”
In the freshman elections there were 2,915 votes cast for the 31 candidates. Tabulations were: Irene Trionfetti, 373; Bill Couneill, 253; Barry Taylor, 252; John Dohm, 245; Scott Siken, 215; Marc Postelnek, 184; David Selby, 126; Mary Drummy, 113.
Other votes included: Edward Gooding, 105; Mary Reynolds, 95; Mary Bellero,
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