Elections Apr. 5
V andvelde and Coomer
campaign for senate pres.
by ALEDA SHIRLEY
Election of Student Senate officers -
president, academic vice-president and serv­ices
vice-president - will be this Friday,
Apr. 5, all day. Any full-time student with a
2.0 grade average or better is eligible, and
the filing deadline is today at 4 p.m. Appli­cations
may be picked up in The Dean of
Student's Office, and it's not too late now.
As of Wednesday, Mar. 28, two candi­dates
had filed for the Student Senate presi­dency.
They are Kenny Vandevelde, current
Student Senate vice-president, and Rickie
Coomer, A&S Student Council President.
V andevelde-Merrick-McGovem
Vandevelde, a sophomore at A&S, is
running for president with a slate of two
candidates, Donna Merrick and Jim McGov­ern.
Due to a recent change in the Senate
Constitution, the two vice-presidencies have
been changed to academic and services
from internal and external. Donna Merrick
is running for academic vice-president ;
McGovern for services vice-president.
Vandevelde says of his candidacy: "The
Student Senate has started many things this
year, and unless someone is acquainted with
the large number of things begun, that is,
the history , rationale , and information be­hind
them - all the work will have been for
nothing."
"Furthermore," Vandevelde continued,
"We can not only expand our role but per­form
the role that has been outlined this
year. The three primary advantages of our
candidacy are: 1) We have a slate of office~
with plans mapped out beforehand. This
will enable us to have the plans already
understood, and will most likely save a sem­ester
of getting acquainted and deciding on
policy. 2) We have three Senate offices now
instead of last year's two, and 3) We defi­nitely
will have better staff support - in­cluding
a secretary."
Coomer -Comstock
Rickie Coomer, a junior at A & S, is run­ning
with Barbara Comstock, a junior from
the Business School. Of his candidacy ,
Coomer said: "The needs of this campus are
so obvious that I sincerely doubt if any of
the platforms will differ substantially. This
election "is a matter of who can best handle
the job and carry out the policies he has
articulated. A president should be someone
well-rounded in all areas of campus life -
governmental, social, and academic."
Coomer continued, "I am running for
Student Senate president because I believe
in the power of the president to lobby for
student rights and interests. I think the Stu­dent
Senate can be more effective than it has
been in the past. I think that the emphasis
should be shifted from the idea of Student
Senate to one of a Student's Senate."
The Student Senate Office told the
Cardinal that any candidate is welcome to
the use of Senate facilities - paper, the
mimeograph machine, etc. Also the Cardi­nal
is interested in any late filers. If you
have decided to run or know anyone who
is, please contact the Cardinal in Rm. 1 7,
Ot.ter Hall.
CARDINAL
Vol. XLIV No. 26 Rm. 117 Otter Hall April 2, 1973
Meeting reports
Senate endorses KYSPIRG
by ALEDA SIDRLEY
After a rather spirited argument, the
University Student Senate passed a bill en­dorsing
the Kentucky Student Public In­terest
Research Group (KYSPRIG). In a
vot.e of 10-9, passed the bill which read
in part: "The Student Senate stands resolved
that KYSPIRG be established. A.) The pur­pose
of KYSPIRG shall be to articulate and
prusue through the media, the institutions
of government, the courts and other legal
means the concerns of students on issues
of general public interest."
The bill further states that "KYSPIRG
shall be non-partisan, non-profit, and stu­dent
controlled. KYSPIRG shall be financed
by a special fee of $2 per student per semes­ter.
Any student who does not wish to
participate shall be entitled to a full re­fund."
Trustee's approve activity fee
by MARTY KASDAN
The $3 per semester student activity fee
proposed by the Union for Student Activi­ties
(USA) is now a reality. The UL Board of
Trustees approved the levy unanimously at
their meeting Mar. 19.
The student referendum on this issue gar­nered
the largest voting turnout this campus
has seen . With 4500 students eligible to vote,
over 1100 chose to exercise their voting
rights, with the results an overwhelming
victory for the fee. The final tally showed
956 for and only 164 against. Even the
Board members were impressed by this
showing.
What all this means is that, beginning
with the fall 1973 semester, students will
be assessed for this fee when they register
for classes. This information will be printed
in the new University catalogue, along with
an explanation of how the fee came to be
as well as outlining the benefits which stu­dents
will gain. While the details have not
yet been worked out, students will receive
either a special punch on their ID cards or
separate cards to show that they have paid
the fee and are thus eligible for free admis­sion
to all USA-sponsored events.
·il
Mange!
Usa Dawkins and James Shoemaker play Adam and Eve in the Modem Language
Department's production of Un Divertissement De Cour. It was presented as part of the
Conference on Medieval Studies.
Nader, Jackson stress intpart
of citizen participation
by MARlY KASDAN
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader and
people's rights activist the Reverend Jesse
Jackson highlighted a three day program
known as the Institute on Social Justice.
Nader spoke Wednesday night, Mar. 21 to
a Memorial Auditorium packed with people
waiting to hear his address on "Strategy for
Justice in Consumer Affairs."
In a speech lasting over two hours Nader
not only played the role of gadfly by point­ing
to the abuses of corporate and govern­mental
powers, but he also proposed specific
solutions to these problems. "Try 10% of
your leisure time on the problem of your
choice," he said, pointing out that right
here in Louisville meaningful reform is
needed in such areas as the property tax
and the small claims court.
Nader & PIRG
Before his speech, Nader mentioned to
the press that in his opinion, the Public In­terest
Research Group (PIRG) movement
is " ... easily the most important one (move­ment)
in the last generation." He said that
such groups would be successful if they
hire good and dedicated staff and if students
pitch in. He went on to mention specific
victori~s won by PIRGs in Massachusetts,
Minnesota and New Jersey.
Thejollowing night the Reverend Jesse
Jackson, seen by many as the heir to Dr.
Martin Luther King's position of leadership,
elicited a constant stream of commentary
from his audience during the course of his
speech. Speaking without a prepared text ,
Jackson moved swiftly from issue to issue.
At one point he outraged a large number
of listeners by denouncing abortion. On the
subject of bussing Jackson spoke directly
to the black segment of the audience, with
his comment that "The issue never was the
bus, it was us."
Jackson & PUSH
He said that all of the lesser problems
added up to a "civilizationaJ crisis." To com­bat
this major crisis Jackson cited education
as the primary tool. .Echoing the feelings of
many of his spiritual predecessors, Jackson
said that "You're gonna live together as
brothers and sisters or die apart as fools."
Like Nader, Jackson gave a press confer­ence
before his speech. He stressed the fact
that the fundamental question to which his
organization, People United to Save Human­ity
(PUSH), is addressing itself is economic
justice. To implement efforts in this direc­tion,
Jackson told of PUSH's three-step
approach, involving research, educating the
community to the results of the research,
and then acting.
Although the Institute formally ended
after Jackson's speech, the organizers began
putting together a mailing list of people in­terested
in following through on the ideals
of social justice.