Miami Hurricane, March 21, 1958

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University of Miami, Coral Cables, Fla., March 21,1958
No. 18
Editorial
Student leaders can play an integral and active part in a young, growing university such a& the University of Miami. The most significant body of student leaders is Student Body Government. Next week the voters will have an opportunity to elect the young men and women who will hold the political reigns as our representatives.
On the shoulders of these officials will fall the burdensome task of finding solutions to the many problems which perplex students. SBG is charged with the responsibility of making student life more liveable and pleasurable, and because of this it calls for vigorous leadership and fresh, new ideas. As voters, we have the obligation to elect the man who most effectively will work for us, the students, and for that greater entity, the University.
In the last few weeks two candidates have come forth offering to give us the leadership we need.
One is Steve Slepin, presidential candidate of All Campus Party and a man recognized as one of the top debaters in the country. The other is Richard Knight, candidate for president on, the Liberty Forum ticket and a man who has already held one of the top four SBG posts, that of treasurer.
The question here is not so much a matter of which political party these men represent, but of the government each can offer.
Slepin is a promising candidate who seems to think he can translate his ideals into practical and efficient administration. But it is one thing to stand for “honesty, efficiency and good government”; it is quite another to surround yourself with qualified personnel to carry out your programs, and, more basic yet, to have programs which will directly benefit the students.
On our campus, student government demands that its. leaders have an administration which produces tangible things, such as solutions to many vexing student problems.
Then, because of the short life of an SBG administration, elected officials must know student government and its complexities so that they may begin work immediately upon election.
One of the failures of President Leroy Howe'S administration was lack of knowledge about the workings of student government. By the time Howe and many members of his cabinet became familiar with their work, there was no time to inaugurate any bold, new programs.
Howe’s administration has been characterized by its lack of tangible things. Certainly some things can be cited, such as the completion of constitutions for the College of Arts and Sciences and the Music School. But in the overall evaluation of SBG, these things, despite their importance, will, in perspective, diminish. Howe has dealt"more in intangibles, such as his attempt to give SBG members a philosophy of student government and of leadership. Slepin, judging from his assertions, is also an advocate of an “intangible” Student Body Government.
The Hurricane, while realizing the importance of “intangibles” in student government, must focus its eyes on another man who can offer more concrete, beneficial pro-. grams to the students. Our University needs an administration which can combine tangibles with intangibles to give us an active, lively, constructive administration. We need a government to represent us with the University administration and one to guide us in solving our problems.
This is why we turn to Liberty Forum’s Richard Knight. Here is energy combined with responsibility. Here are the hopes for real, practical progress on the part of the student body.	s
No candidate better knows Student Body Government than Richard Knight. No man has better prepared himself for the presidency than Richard Knight.
He is a man who has concrete proposals and the qualified personnel to help carry them out.
Knight has served in almost every capacity in SBG, culminating his work this year as treasurer. He has the foresight, stamina and leadership to guide students, and he has the ideas and resources to raise SBG to a peak of achievement.
It is with hope, with sincerity, with responsibility that The Miami Hurricane strongly urges its readers to go to the polls March 25 and 26 and elect Liberty Forum’s
RICHARD KNIGHT
President, SBG
Campaign Hits Peak; Polls Open
Photo by Rudoff
RAINS AND FRISKY WINDS brought havoc to rows of political advertisements lining the walkway leading to the Ashe Building. One puzzled student surveys the damage with head in hand. The destruction caused by Wednesday's rains was the most “explosive" thing in what has started nut as a mild political campaign. With the dawn of Thursday, bright new advertisements had appeare-l.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Vanguard Up, Politicians Out;
Banners, Posters Deck Campus
By MIRIAM COHN
Hurricane Feature« Editor
Vanguard is up and UM campaigners are out—and the latter has a steady lead in gaining student attention.
Election time has brought some interesting changes to an ordinarily unruffled campus. Hammock-like banners swing from trees plastered with posters. Ardent candidates, and their even more ardent supporters, vigorously thrust pamphlets at anyone passing by.
Everybody speaks in slogans. Students are urged to “wring out the old and ring in the new.” Passing on a little further, they are informed that a party’s motto is “honesty, sincerity and good government.”
Marching from one class to another
is now quite a colorful and somewhat blinding affair. Candidates and their qualifications smile down from every tree.
Mammoth signs leap out at students at every available space, and leaflets of every size, shape and slogan confront voters at every turn.
The “election epidemic” has hit UM hard—but it is expected to end in less than a week, giving students a chance to recuperate until next year’s campaign.
Prof Chosen Consultant
John M. Dyer, associate professor of marketing, has been chosen by the government of Nicaragua as consultant in developing the country’s tourist business.
Students To Vote March 25, 26 For SBG Slate
By TERRY DRUMMOND
Hurricane New» Editor
Campaigning will hit its peak when students go to the polls Tuesday and Wednesday to decide who will hold the Student Body Government reigns.
SBG Treasurer Dick Knight, running on the Liberty Forum ticket, will vie against SBG Secretary-at-Large Steve Slepin, All Campus Party’s top man for the presidency.
ACP’s Bob Braham will clash against LF's Sherman Carr in the race for the SBG vice presidency.
Who Can Vote
Only regularly enrolled students carrying at least 12 credit hours are eligible to vote in the forthcoming election Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Dr. Thurston Adams director of student activities.
Each voter will be required to present his identification card with his signature on it before being allowed to vote.
The polls will be open Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesday night from 6 to 9 to accommodate evening students
Election machines will he placed at the Snake Pit, Merrick Building Breezeway, Eaton flail, the laundry Center, Student Union breezeway, Ashe Building lobby and on North Campns.
Braham is vice president of the southeastern district of the National Student Association and has served two terms in the Senate.
Carr, at present executive secretary of the Engineering School government, has also served two terms in the Senate.
Two women from the College of Arts and Sciences will compete for the SBG secretary’s post. They are LF’s Nanita Greene and ACP's Carmen Colon.
In the scrammble for the treas-urership, three men are running. They are ACP’s Jack Dick, LF’s Phil Mandina and an independent, Edward Kattel.
Senate and gubernatorial candidates will also be elected.
Slepin, ACP presidential nominee, said, “I enjoy getting out and meeting the individual student because it gives me a chance to get the issues clear.”
Slepin, who says he likes “meeting (Continued on Page 2)