Miami Hurricane, April 24, 1953

              The
Vol. XXVII
Hurricane
April 24, 1953	No. 22
BOB POWELL
... SA A prexy candidate
RONALD FINE
. . . Liberty Forum prexy candidate
BUDDY WE1SSEL
... SA A veep candidate
TIP JENNINGS
. . Liberty Forum veep candidate
Photo by Hal«
SPORTS CAR ENTHUSIASTS ready themselves for the starting flag to drop which sent them down the twisting curves marked out on the main parking lot. Drivers during this test of skill were blindfolded, a navigator indicating the turns by hand signal. Thirty -
five of the foreign model cars competed in the Gym Khana. a test of driving skill and sport car qualities, which lasted all Sunday afternoon. The contest was sponsored by Miami Sports Car club which was founded by U-M students a year ago.
Other Stories On Page 5
Hotly-Contested Campaign Seen As Near-Riot Opens Politicking
By DAVE MALONE
Editorial P>k< Editor
Campaign poster? splattered across the campus, soap box speeches and squabbles over favored locations for political signs have given forewarning%)f what many think will be one of the most hotly contested elections in U-M history.
Shortly after the posting of campaign literature became legal after midnight Wednesday, arguments concerning favored posting spots reached a high pitch. Coral Gables police were called out to break up a mob of over 200 students milling around in front of the Student Club.
Two major political parties, one settled in office for the past two years and the other a new organization that has been gathering more backers every day. will contest for student votes through the election days. Thursday and Friday.
The contending parties, Student Action Association and Liberty Forum, have each set down their platforms for the coming school year. The entrenched SAA group endorses their candidates as the “most qualified” with the “most experience.” The Forum offers “a real two-party system” and was formed to “serve the individual student."
A third party, Students for Independent Representation, decided not to select their own slate of candidates, but instead to back various persons from the two main parties.
Ronald Fine. Liberty Forum SA presidential candidate, expressed the views of the Forum with. "The greatest desire of the Forum is to build an active student body with mature, purposeful functions which are participated in by all students regardless of affiliation."
“The Forum promises to recruit, train and place, all interested students in their student government and its projects, and thereby build better spirit. The Forum believes the best student government is the one that represents all students all during the year,” he said.
Bob Powell, SAA presidential candidate, offered SAA’s views, “In the past two years SAA has nominated thoroughly qualified candidates who have to the very peaks of their abilities strived to give to students a clean, honest, workable government.”
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Photo by Livtngoton
THAT WARMTH YOU FEEI. isn’t coming out of the oven, it’s just Liska Littlejohn's smile that radiates the heat. This I8-year-old frosh is a tri-delt from Moorestown, N. J. Hurricane Honey No. 22 is a former Tempo cover girl, and is majoring in Radio-TV. !f Liska will turn her 5-foot 7-inches Joe Livingston’s way and look at him with those soft brown eyes, the Tempo editor will pin an orchid on her at 3:30 this afternoon in the Hurricane office.	•