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Volume LIV, Number 69 Tuesday, April 14, 1970

Statutes, Balloting_Questioned

Spring Campus Election Declared

Invalid By Student Judicial Board

Nomination Books MayReopen

ELECTIONS BOARD CHAIRMAN Charles Guignardwrote up the Student Body President results lastWednesday not knowing that they would be declaredinvaiidlater on.

Night Burn Places Ship On Earth Course

by Thomas J. Canning 111Guest Writer

State’s Student Judicial Board invalidated the SpringStudent Government elections in an unexpecteddecision late Monday evening.

In the adjudgement which suspends today’s runoffelections, the Board voided all races in the generalelection, left to the Elections Board the decision as towhether the election books would be reopened, andruled that the Student Senate must decide the validityof a controversial election statute which it supposedlydeleted earlier in the fall. ‘

The action came as the result of two independentappeals filed by Cathy Sterling, defeated Student Body

Judicial Board RulingThe Judicial Appeals Board finds that the election

is declared invalid based on the fact that theElection’s Board was in error by not enforcing theelection rules as stated in the instructions to the pollattendants; the board also finds that new electionsmay not be held until Part 2, Section 1, letter c.iseither passed. or deleted from the election rules bythe Student senate by due process.

- Date: 13 April‘l970James W. Pearce, Clerk

Robert C. Bain, Chairman

Apollo MoOn Landin

SPACE CENTER, Houston(UPI)A successful life-or-deathrocket blast put the three-manApollo 13 crew on the pathhome Tuesday after a powerfailure— perhaps due to ameteor strike — crippled theirspaceship 205,000 miles fromearth.

“It was a good burn,” aspokesman at the HoustonSpace Center declared aftertalking to mission control.

The announcement put anend to what seemed to be thelongest minutes in the historyof US. manned space flight.Clearly riding on the maneuverwere the lives of astronauts

A. Lovell, John L.Swigert and Fred W. Haise.

What the pilots did was tofire a blast on the descentengine of their lunar landerAquarius, setting themselvesback 0 n a “free returntrajectory” that will allowthem to loop around the moonand head back home.

The burn was triggered at3:43 am. EST,'but word ofthe success did not come until4am.

On the voyage back, theastronauts will be using theAquarius as a “lifeboat” to

supply them with electricalpower and oxygen.

Prior to the burn,Christopher C. Kraft, thedeputy director of the MannedSpaceflight Center confirmed:“This is as serious a situation aswe have ever had in mannedspaceflight.”

But Kraft said chances wereexcellent for their safe return ifnothing else happens. ..

At 2:35 am. EST, groundcontrollers decided theastronauts should' make acritical maneuver to get Apolloback on an earthbound path.

The problem struck likelightning and turned what hadbeen almost a flawless flightinto a nightmare for the.spacepilots. Hopes for a third '.moon landing were forgottenin the drama of getting themen back.

Space officials had no hintof what caused the powerfailure, but Dr. Harvey Ningerof Sedona, Ariz., one of theforemost meteoriticists in theworld, said the spacecraft mayhave been’hit by a meteorite.James ‘McDivitt, Apollo

spacecraft program managerand former Apollo astronaut,added weight to _ Niniger’sp. u;

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theory.“It was something that

appeared to be quite violentthat occured in bay four. Andif it were struck by ameteorite, that would be quite

violent. I wouldn’t say that’swhat happened, but won’t ruleit out.” .

Four hours after the “bang”which knocked outspaceship’s power, Kraft

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Presidential candidate, and Rob Campbell who had viedunsuccessfully for a sophomore Judicial Board seat.

Rob Campbell brought the most effective appeal, andit was the one on which the Board voided the elections.In it, he alleged that the Student Supply Store poll waswithout Sophomore Judicial Board ballots for fifteenminutes during which time the instructions of theElections Board were improperly followed. A sister ofAlpha Tau, the sorority manning the polls, supposedlygave an incomplete set of ballots to a voter instead ofwaiting until more ballots arrived as directed by CharlesGuignard, Elections Board Chairman.

Miss Sterling’s complaint dealt with a controversialelection statute which apparently was left out of thesecond and final reading of the bill and was passedunnoticed by the Senate. The statute states that eachcandidate must sign a statement that his campaignmaterial will not reflect unfavorably on either the officehe seeks, Student Government, or the University.

The omission of this statute may have opened theway for Eric Plow’s unconventional but very successfulcampaign. Although action in favor of Miss Sterling’ssuit did. not invalidate the election by itself, it will delayfinal plans for a new election until Wednesday’s StudentSenate meeting and further rulings by the ElectionBoard. —-

“My complaint was issued before the votes werecounted attempting to bring about reform,” statedCampbell.

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reported: “It appears thateverything is under control andwe have a safe situation at themOmen‘t."

Many aspects of theemergency were still unsettled

Tuesday morning, however.Ground controllers said theastronauts would splash downabout 12:13 pm. EST Friday,

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Elections should not have been voided

Because the time, money and effort studentpoliticians expend when they run for office aregreat. the results of an entire campus electionshould not be put aside for light or questionablereasons. Thus the Judicial Board’s decision to scrapthe l970 spring election and begin anew is rightlyviewed with some dismay. “ .

At best the Board’s ruling is open to seriousdebate. While it may be true that certainirregularities took place at the Student SupplyStore ballot box. one wonders if the magnitude ofthe errors committed there justifies invalidation ofthe results of so many races and issues that couldnot possibly have been altered by even deliberatehanky panky during a one hour period at onevoting spot. A

Certainly one would think it necessary toproduce unshakable evidence that the allegedevents could have influenced major portions of theballot casting before deciding on such a drastic

plan as throwing out the entire election. If suchwere the case, there could be little room forcomplaint. But unfortunately the Judicial Boarddid not even hear testimony from the personsupposedly in charge when the irregularities werebelieved to have occured.

But since the Board’s ruling is the supremejudgment in such matters, we will likely reopennomination books and begin the search fornextyear’s student government officers again. It doesseem unfortunate, however, that some sort ofpostponement could not have been arranged untilsuch time as a more thorough investigation coulddetermine the extent of the damage to last week’sresults at the Student Supply Store poll.

At any rate, the whole business should be agood lesson for the future. For example, there issome questiOn as to whether candidates for officemust sign pledges to conduct campaigns which donot reflect unfavorably upon the office sought, on

student government or' on the University. Thismatter should not be minimized in its potential forcausing trouble. Level-headed senators will shunany such provision, for it is probablyunconstitutional, in that it contradicts thepreamble’s pledge to “atmosphere of freeinquiry.” Let there be no rush to judgment thistime and perhaps round two of campus electionswill at least produce some winners. Unfortunately,however, it is doubtful that any lessons learnedfrom the recent debaucle will offset itsundermining of student respect for SC that hasbeen building for some time. Eric Plow’s mockeryof the whole system has an even more incisiveimpact now than ever. And although his supportwill likely diminish in the upcoming race, there aremany who will often wonder which is worse: tolaugh and deride Student Government in all itsfrailty, or be a party to its constant ineffectivenessand failure.

5.0. Review: A Close Look At The Nullification

by G. A. DeesThe academy award pro-

duction Death of an Electionor Student Government made

played last night to asell-out crowd on the campusat the Union.

The principle characterswere Miss Sterling, a humbleyoung lass with gleam in hereye; Charles Guignard, thelovable fellow that meant well;and. the Judicial Board, por-trayed by atribeoflegal-eagleswith wings outspread.A whole host of characters

whose voices were heard butnot seen, included Eric Plow, areal nice farm-boy that had itall figured out ahead of time;William Benny Teal ( the guy

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with the ear-to-ear grin);DavidBrown, a tired, but not upsetcandidate; and a whole passelof supporters in various cam-pus around campus.

The suspense was presentjust as it was after Pearl Harborwhen the entire populace stoodin the clearing smoke and stut-tered “Whawazatl?”

Candidates were caughtwith drawers dropped andunprepared.

It was a scream to see acandidate without a statementfor a change. In fact, severalhours after the “bomb”dropped, no one had yet madeany concrete statements withthe exception of Eric Plow’svoiced disgust and “l-told-you-

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50’s” in reference to the ram-paging nonsense prevailing inall branches of the studentgovernment. ‘

The point has been reachedin the plot where finger-pointing is popular and a lot ofguys are hunting for a scrape-goat. Several people aresquirming and trying to justifyactions while the students, as awhole, are disgusted to thepoint of sickness.

TheGovernment is indeed in anall-time low as confidence(already low) hit rock-bottom.

After this disaster, the vot-ing students will seek officersthat must carry their VOte ofconfidence if S.G.’is‘to succeed

PARLOR

state 'of Student.

and survive.Accusations are flying and

S.G.‘ Review is doing it’s share.Charles Guignard: Why were

there not enough ballots?Kathy Tiska: Who is respon-

sible for recording what theSenate does? Also, where areyour records concerning actionon Chapter VII, Part 2, SEC-,TION ONE, Paragraph 0 of theStudent Body Documents,Volume II: The Student BodyStatutes, 1969? .

Student Senate: How comnone of you can remember forsure what happened and whenconcerning the action on Chap-‘ter vu, Part .2, SECTIONONE, Paragraph .c?

Alpha Tau: Where were you

when you" get there.

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at the ballot box?The candidates are having to

reconsider decisions madeweeks ago and also where doesthe money come from foranother campaign? Some can-

O.K., gang! Now what? Itseems that we won’t knowuntil the Senate meets tomor-row night.

It might be a good idea todrop by the Senate meeting for

diates are grateful for another {1 gOOd belly laugh. This meet-chance at the big-time. mg ought to be a real winner!the'I'echnioianP. 0. Box 5898 I Raleigh. ll. 6.

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Returns To Earth Friday{Continued From Page I)

but did not know whether itwould be in the Pacific orAtlantic.

Depending upon last minutedetails, a “foreign ship ofconvenience” may be calledupon to pick up the astronauts.The power failure—

apparently an explosion in oneof the Apollo 13’s three elec-tricity-producing fuel cells—hitthe command ship Odysseyshortly after 10pm. EST.

In a matter of minutes, the48-ton spacecraft exhausted itselectrical supply and Haise andLovell—who had beenscheduled to make the moonlanding—crawled into the lunarlander upon instructions fromground control.

7 Swigert remained in thecommand ship, since thelander, Aquarius, is designedbut for two persons.

The command ship willcontinue to feed off theAquarius for supplies—mainly

oxygen and limited power—during the long flight home.

“The lunar module wouldserve as a sort of lifeboat forthe crew of Apollo 13,”mission control spokesmanTerry White explained.

Prior to re-entry, however,all three pilots will have toclimb back into the commandship, since the Aquarius has noheat shield and would beburned to a crisp if it at-tempted to re-enter earth’satmosphere.

The command ship“Odyssey” and the landingcraft “Aquarius” are nowflying locked together and theastronauts used their land-ing craft’s descent engine tochange their course and aimthem back toward earth._

Just before re-entry Fridaythe astronauts, riding in thecommand ship, will cut loosefrom the landing craft. Theywill use batteries for electricityin their command ship and willbreathe oxygen stored in a

special tank at the last minuteearly Tuesday before theircommand ship went powerless.

In true test-pilot fashion,Swigert—who was assigned tothe mission at the last minutebecause it appeared one of theprime crewmen was comingdown with measles—matter offactly disclosed the electricalfailure.

“Okay Houston, we’ve had aproblem here.”

“This is Houston,” saidground controller Jacklousma. “Say it again please.”

“Houston, we’ve had aproblem. We’ve had a mainB-bus undervolt.”

It was the first "majortrouble in space aboard anAmerican spaceship sinceGemini 8, which was cut shortafter just 10 hours in space inMarch, 1966, and made a safeemergency splashdown in thePacific Ocean after performingthe first rendezvous and dock-ing between two space crafts.

Technician Staff Spends

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by George Evans—Carlyle was “sitting in class,waiting for it to begin”—Hilton was trying to use theXerox machines in the librarybut didn’t have any change-Evans was re-reading TheWorld of Null-A in thebathroom—G.A.Dees was having anoff-campus beer can fight andhad just ducked a can that hadhis name written on it—“The Big Pooh” was upstairsat home having fallen asleepwhile watching ‘Sesame Street’—Jack was just returning fromsupper when his hall phonerang and “BlNGO-— there wasCharles” with the news thatcampus elections had beendeclared invalid.

At 9:30, all of the above(except Carlylewho was still inclass), were gathered togetherin the Technician offices anddecided that in order to putout a proper “Special ElectionExtra” refreshments would beneeded.

Accordingly, Jack and Genewent over the hill to fetchprovisions to last till morning.GA’s fabled front tires gotthem and the goodies back bysome miracle but, onceOsborne appeared, nothingcould save the liquid refresh-ments. .

“Georgie Pooh,” Carlyleand Jack were huddled overthe layout tables like a team ofcrack (cracked?) surgeonswhile ‘02’ ran from the refri-WANTED: part-time typesetter(55-60 wpm). Will train on IBM‘MT/SC system. Salaried position.Good working conditions-set yourown hours. Apply: Richard. Henryor Carlyle—the Technician. KingBldg, or call 755-241 I anytime.

gerator to the bathroom.Hilton ran in circles and Evanslooked on from deep within 3Purple Haze.

“That may be the call fromWashington!” screamed Pantonas a stray Frisbee came overthe wall and a phone rangsimultaneously causing gales oflaughter and Evans to fall overbackwards, unnoticed.

Someone broke out thecigars about 11:30 and thewhole office lit up as anotherstray Frisbee came over thewall.

Anguished cries like “We’reout of ‘miIk’,” began about11:35, so Jack and Hiltonventured out into the dark ofnight and return saying; “Boy

this is some town—everybodyquits selling refreshments whenthe Sun goes down.”

Hayne’s face wasn’t seen allnight as it was buried deepwithin the Vari-typer whichestablished a new world’srecord for breakdowns.

Epps—noted Spiro Agnewcritic—arrived just in time tomiss out on the ‘Cokes’ andWhigham explained that adashiki is NOT a shirt!

(Did I mention that every-one was lit up?)GA was hunched over his

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