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Candidates Battle For Student Government Posts
Election Schedule
® See candidates on pages 6and 7 By ISIDRO GARCIA
Ntm Editor
Polls open tomorrow for Undergraduate Student Body Government (USBG) elections in which students will elect next years entire executive branch along with 13 Senate representatives and four Student Entertainment Committee (SEC) members.
Out of the 69 candidates that entered the race March 4, seven have dropped out. Most dropouts said they did not have the time to conduct an effective campaign.
Election Commission Chairman Robert Mills expects a turnout of close to 2,000 students. Almost 1,800 voted in last Spring's USBG elections.
Mills said he expects a larger turnout this year because there are six Presidential candidates, a figure he says is “unusually” high.
Of the 62 candidates still in the race, a few have
® Polls open tomorrow and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 0 p.m. in the Student Union Breezetmy.
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been assessed as many as six points for campaign violations (10 points disqualifies a candidate from the race).
According to Mills most of the violations are due to the fact that the candidates did not have graphic materials approved by the Election Commission before they, began use of the materials.
Besides the eight Presidential candidates, five students are running for Vice President, and 4 are running for Treasurer.
The Treasurer usually acts as Chairman of the
national Lounge of the Student Union.
® Students must present a valid I.O. or its equivalent at the polls in order to vote.
® Results will he announced Thursday at 10 p.m. in the Rathskeller.
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powerful Student Activity Fee Allocation Committee (SAFAC) and participates in the distribution of funds to different campus groups and organizations.
“People don’t think it's powerful because the Treasurer seat does not get tuition remission,” Mills said.
Thirty-four students are running for 18 available Senate seats. Twelve students are running for four available Student Entertainment Committee (SEC) seats.
Three major political parties have candidates entered into every race but independents are also campaigning for each seat.
The Election Commission will announce the results of the election Thursday night at 10 p m in the Rathskeller, however this year results will not be released until the campus is cleaned up of all campaign material.
The possibility of a runoff is high because of the number of candidates entered in each executive office race. A candidate needs a majority to win on the first election; if there isn't a majority then the two first place finishers will battle it out in a runoff election.
WVUM and USBG will sponsor a "Presidential Debate" program in the International Lounge of the Student Union at noon today. Panelists will discuss issues with the candidates and the program will be broadcast live on 91 FM. WVUM
One Presidential candidate who says she is not in the race to win but to make the candidates face “the real issues,” says she will use the debates for that purpose.
Board Of Trustees Gives Administration
3 Budget Guidelines
By ALAN MARCUS
Editor
In order to stave off a tuition increase, UM’s Board of Trustees has given the administration three uidelines to work within as the udget formation process continues. In what Budget Review and Finance Committee Chairman Charles Cobh described as a "heated and comprehensive" meeting, the administration was told to make .achieving “academic excellence” UM’s top priority, with giving the faculty a modest salary increase and searching for areas where savings could be realized next on the list.
The action of the Board comes as a direct result of an administration recommendation that tuition be increased $200 per year.
UM President Henry King Stanford has neither confirmed nor denied that this recommendation was made.
Cobb, in his report to the Trustees
Friday, explained that two approaches were discussed in the Executive Committee and Budget Committee joint-meeting Wednesday.
The first approach, he said, was to make a decision in regard to tuition and then let the administration work out a budget on that basis.
The second, which the Committees »greed to, was to give the administration priorities and guidance and then work on revenues.
Cobb explained the academic priorities in terms of increased fundings for the Schools of A'rts and Sciences and Business, increased funding for the Library and increased funding for the admissions program.
The second priority or guideline was an increase in salaries for faculty and staff Cobb said the administration should provide for a modest pool of funds and award the
increases on merit.
Lastly, Cobb said, savings in the existing budget should be found and improvements in the budget should be made.
Cobb said the Committees have directed the administration to come back to the Board sometime next week with a budget formulated with these guidelines.
"A tuition increase decision i m-not be made until the administration comes back with a budget under these guidelines.” he »aid.
On this year's budget. Cobh said that a $300,000 estate gift will not be received this fiscal year and along with minor shortfalls, the University must make up a total shortfall of $400,000.
For next year, the University will go to a “zero based budget" approach, he said.
Student Government President
Flip For Life
Taking a flip in space and then landing on water is not the easiest way to make a living. But the Hurricane Skiers do it for fun, not a living. They are an unusual bunch of UM students who meet the fun in the sun adventure
with a tenacity that is most unusual for beachcombers and other sun addicts. The skiers will share their experiences with the UM community tomorrow at 12:45 p.m. on Lake Osceola as part of Recreation For Life Week. The skiers will be facing greater perils than flips, namely the pollution and duck discharge. See complete Recreation for Life Week calendar, page 8.
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Rebel Overrules Mills In G & Co. Mail Campaign
By ISIDRO GARCIA
Maws Editor
Election Commission Chairman Robert Mills has instructed Graduate Assistants in the dormitories to withhold 1000 interoffice envelopes containing political advertisements for the G.V. & Co. ticket headed by Presidential candidate David Goldberg.
However, Student Activities Director Tom Rebel reversed Mills’ decision and the enveloj?es were distributed in the residence halls earlier this morning.
Rebel said that if the envelopes offer the G.V & Co. ticket an unfair advantage, it would be an Election Commission decision.
According to Mills the envelopes were delivered to the dormoritories against University policy and could result in the loss of interoffice mail service for ail student organizations.
But according to Purchasing Director John Galbraith, the enve-
lopes never went through the interoffice mail system and therefore did not violate University policy.
John Bond, a law student and reportedly G.V. & Co.’s chief political organizer discovered that the envelopes were being held about 12:30 a.m. Monday and allegedly threatened Mills.
Campaign posters in the Merrick, Memorial, and LC building were torn down shortly after Bond discovered that the envelopes were being held.
Mills said that the destruction of the posters may have been in retaliation for the withholding of the envelopes.
G.V. & Co. received the envelopes from Sigma Delta Tau Sorority. Kathy McPhee, who ran and lost in a USBG campaign for President last spring, is a member of the sorority. She said earlier in March that she was Bond's “lover."
G.V. & Co. has their campaign headquarters at SDT sorority.
“Other candidates don’t have ac-
cesibility to inter-office mail so G.V. & Co. has an unfair advantage," Mills said.
"The misuse of these envelopes could result in discontinuance of service to all student organizations.”
According to Mills, UM's Security office saw three males running from the Merrick Building carting a large box. One of them was described as heavy set and wearing a white tee shirt.
According to Director of Security. David Wike, the midnight shift patrol did not file a report and at press time the guards could not be reached for comment. It is not known if the incident was connected to the destruction of campaign posters.
The car of a Presidential candidate has been vandalized according to Mills. The candidate had his brake line cut and had to cross three lanes of traffic before finally coming to a stop. One of his windows had previously been blown out with
shots from what Mills said was a BB gun.
Another candidate's automobile engine exploded, reportedly because water was added to the gasoline tank according to Mills.
Assistant Director of Student Activities Kay Whitten said the use of envelopes did not interfere with University policy.
"As far as I’m concerned you don't penalize a group for an idea that might be good just because someone else can't do it," Whitten said.
“Mills made the decision to withhold the envelopes without speaking to anyone on the Election Commission and without speaking to me," she said.
Housing Director James Grimm said that the envelopes will be mailed to students through the interoffice mail system because Student Activities Director Tom Rebel "cleared” the envelopes.
“If Tom says it’s okay, it’s okay,” Grimm said.
I oni Rebel
Sue Havey was pleased with the meeting and told the Board that she hopes they will decide not to raise tuition.
Last Wednesday. Havey attended the joint committee meeting without invitation to insure that no decision on the tuition increase would be made.
In his report to the Board. President Henry King Stanford said that UM's accountants, Haskins and Cells said that 15 per cent could be saved in the University’s budget an-' nually.
Haskins and Cells are in the process of making a phase one study at a cost of $200,000.
Tuition at UM has risen four of the last five years, a total of $1.000.. Last year’s increase was met by a protest of over 2,000 students and various demands on the University.
One administrator said he didn't think the Board would allow the administration to raise tuition again. Housing rates were increased $35 per room per semester for the fall.
A decison on tuition should be made within the next week.
Steinfeld Offers Free Magic Class
By IVONNE ROVIRA
Assistant News Editor
Deal four straight flushes, rip and restore cards, read minds or turn a deck blank. Sounds impossible? Not after attending the magic workshops being offered free, 8 to 9:30 p.m., Wednesdays, in room S207 of the Student Union by Adam Steinfeld.
Although the six-week course began last Wednesday. there is still time to join up.
Steinfeld has been performing magic since he was five years old and placed first at the 1969 and 1975 annual Florida Magic Convetions. Magicians of all ages attend these conventions.
"First trick I would teach anyone would be to have someone select a card from the deck and be able to find it,” Steinfeld said.
“Magic is not to figure out how it’s done — magic is entertainment. In most cases, unless you're also a magician, you can't. It's just more enjoyable if you just watch it without trying to figure it out.
“If you were really observant, though, you could tell how Doug Henning got out of the cage and how the tiger got In, in ‘The Magic Show.'”
Steinfeld belongs to two magic organizations, the International Brotherhood of Magicians and the Society of American Magicians, both of which meet once a month. He said he learns more about magic every time they have a meeting.
“There are types of magic using ordinary things: matches, a napkin, deck of cards. Most people like to see magicians do tricks with ordinary items. They
reason that there can be no fake involved,” Steinfeld said.
That is why he is trying to “get more into doing cards,” he said.
“The idea in magic is to make everyone believe that you’re a magician. Magic is an art that consists of concealing your art. The true art lies in the other person not really knowing what is happening and being unable to link cause with effect," Steinfeld said.
“Magic had its climax during the Vaudeville era. The early 1900s had magic at its peak. Today, magic has increased again due to television.
“A lot of the tricks today are taken from Vaudeville and the 1800s.”
He pointed out that the vanishing lady trick that Henning does was first done in the early 1800s.
Two people can do the same trick in two different ways, according to Steinfeld.
Steinfeld said that people don’t appreciate much of the work that goes into magic.
“Most people see someone in Gusmar. Hall playing a clarinet,” Steinfeld said, "and they don't realize all the practice that the player had to go through. They just say, 'He’s good. "
“Magic is like a musical instrument in respects that both practice long hours, the clarinet player practicing his scales and the magician practicing his cards."
Steinfeld said that he planned to become an optometrist.
“You see, I like optics,” he said.
Prestidigitator Adam Steinfeld Displays Card Deck
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