TheLouisville Cardinal
Vol. XLVI No. 23 Room ll7, Otter Hall, Louisville, Ky. 40208 March 7, 1975
March 11 and 12
Senate to hold elections
by Kenny Vandevelde
The University Student Senate
elections, to be held next Tuesday and
Wednesday, feature two complete s]ates
of officers and senators, as well as three
independent candidates.
Senate President Greg Price will be
opposed in his bid for re-election by
David King and Stephan Phelps.
Price heads a slate which includes Joe
Fowler for executive vice-president, Scott
Yeakey for academic vice-president and
Vicki Harned for services vice-president.
Phelps is the leader of a ticket which
includes Joe Gillespie for executive
vice-president, Yoshi Matsuda for
academic vice-president, and Debbie Kent
for services vice-president.~
Current academic vice-president Mary
Dockery is not seeking re-election, and
services vice-president Dan Flynn is a
candidate for an at-large senate seat.
The election is notable in several
respects:
• Jt .points to the declining interest of
the. social" Greek organizations in campus
elections. While this year the academic
and services vice-presidents were both
Greeks, not a single candidate for a senate
office is a member of a social fraternity
or sorority this year. It is believed that
this is the first time in the senate's history
that such has been the case.
· • Because there are fewer seats than
in the past, the competition for each
senate seat is keener tltis year than
previously. Twenty-seven candidates are
competing for ten seats.
The election has produced two slates
of candidates with specific and very
different emphases. One slate, headed by
Stephan Phelps, stresse·s its ability to
represent students that it says have been
ignored by the current administration,
groups such as commuters, night
students, and women. The other slate,
headed by Greg Price, stresses its
experience in, and knowledge of, student
government.
Here is a description of the
qualifications of each candidate for a
senate office and a summary of his or her
platform. The information is taken from
questionnaires completed by the
candidates when they ft.led for the
election.
President
Greg Price, a 21 year old management
major, has been senate president this past'
year, and was services vice-president last
year. He has sat on the U of L Board of
Trustees and on the University (Faculty)
Senate. Price lists experience on fourteen
university committees dealing with topics
like athletics, health services, black
affairs, renovation of the UC Building,
food services and the book store.
Price says he has a "prime personal
commitment to an equitable system of
student fees that improve student life
rather than complicate it." He supports
replacing a mandatory student fee for
athletics with a voluntary one. He
believes health and counseling services
should be supported by some means
other than student fees ..
Price .lists as specific proposals, the
following:
• Student administered teacher-course
evaluations;
• a block system of instruction for
University College;
• expansion of the free _university
program;
• the establishment of a
university-wide student bill of rights;
• transformation of the UC Building
into a student center;
• establishment of a U of L student
travel center;
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Photogr<Aph by Rkk Yetter
Carolyn Brown as Miss Sade Thompson argues with Jeffrey Sturgeon in a scene from
"Rain," currently on stage at Belknap Theatre.
Sen. Eugene McCarthy on "poetry and war"
by Steve Wingfteld
Presidential candidate, poet and
former Senator Eugene McCarthy was at
U of L last Friday to address the Third
Annual Twentieth Century Literature
Conference.
At a press conference held before the
address to the Conference , Sen. McCarthy
Former Senator
Eugene McCarthy
presented the
Keynote address at
last week's
Twentieth Century
Literature Confer­ence.
Photograph by
John Beckman
verified that he was running for President
as an independent in I 976.
Sen. McCarthy stated that his reasons
for running as an independent instead of
a Democrat (as he did in I 968 and 1972)
were: he felt there was no major
difference between the two major parties ;
no critical issues would be discussed by
the major parties in 1976; and in 1976
the Democratie convention would pick its
nominee in the backroom.
McCarthy also said he wished to
challenge certain Presidential campaign
practices which have become
institutionalized. He said he could not
pursue this within one of the major
parties.
:9\.sked if .hefelt youth would play an
important part in his campaign as they
did in 1968, McCarthy said he felt young
people were being criticized for their
inactiveness, but he "expects to challenge
youth" in 1976.
"Youth's apathy," McCarthy
continued, "is just the failure to respond
to the issues. You can't march on
inflation.'
McCarthy also stated that he was not a
one-issue (Vietnam) candidate. He
pointed out he had never been a one-issue ·
candidate but that in the past Vietnam
had obscured the other issues.
McCarthy said that his current
campaign for the Presidency would be
based on all the issues. lie said he has a
"formulated" economic policy which
would be released as the election drew
nearer.
Another issue Sen. McCarthy said he
wiJI pursue is the "warping" in the
function of the Presidency. lie said he
tried to present the issue in 1968, but
Vietnam had obscured it.
Responding to a question about his
1972 candidacy for the Democratic
nomination, McCarthy said it "was not a
serious candidacy." He said issues were
not expressed and that "we were not
putting things together."
Asked by a reporter if he thought he
would throw the 1976 election to
President Ford by running as an
independent, McCarthy said the
fundamental issue behind his decision was
not whether his candidacy would elect
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