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The University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. — Monday, AprU 9j 1973
Path to SGA election long
By MIKE CLARK
and ANTHONY HEALY
How did Danny Hughes,
Steve Patrick, Bobby Tankers-
ley, David Bell, Debbie Currier
and Susan Fansler become
candidates? The campaign’s
history is involved and includes
much more than most students
realize.
Coalition’s and the Progress
ive Student Alliance’s cam
paign began with events far
back into winter quarter.
Indicators from the political
scene came as early as January.
BEGINNING
Joel Wooten resigned as
chairman of campus political
party Action Union on Jan. 22,
charging SGA President Joe
Fowler, Student Senate Presi
dent Art Ryder and SGA
Vice-President Jim Cline with
finding out “if there is enough
student interest in Action
Union to get a campaign
moving for the spring."
Fowler admitted the SGA,
under A-U’s leadership, had
neglected educational, academ
ic and community affairs, and
business and finances.
The stigma attached to
Action Union’s failures caused
Why pick
student interest in the party to
wane. Party leaders were
unable to institute a successful
membership drive, and with
this election, A-U has faded
into student political history.
A NEW political party
appeared on campus in the
later part of February. Dubbed
SCOPE (Student Caucus on
Progressive Effort), the group
turned to “problems that
directly involve the University
students.”
Tankersley charged that
Tommy Lord formed the party
“for his own presidential bid,”
but the charges were forgotten
when SCOPE changed from a
party to a nonpartisan
lobbying group and virtually
disappeared from the political
WITH A majority in the
Student Senate, Coalition faced
1973 determined to overturn
their former defeat by Action
Union.
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THE LONG, HARD CAMPAIGN TRAIL COMES TO AN END WEDNESDAY
Pamphlets and posters have deluged the campus as PSA and Coalition battled for votes
For April 11
Election rules given
Coalition ?
A statement
by Coalition
The issue in this election is
not platform positions - PSA
has adopted most of Coali
tion's proposals already — but
the issue is this: which
candidates have proven that
they will not back down when
the interests of students,
faculty, and the University
community are at stake? Which
candidates have demonstrated
genuine concern and a real
willingness to try new and
innovative approaches in
dealing with campus problems?
The answer is clear to 6,000
students who are forced to live
in dormitories; to all of us who
scramble every day for parking
spots that will accomodate
only half the cars on campus;
to married students who are
denied University Health
Services for their spouses and
children; to students who get
ripped off every quarter on
book purchases and buy-back;
who suffer inadequate concert
facilities; who are restricted in
their use of the library; to
everyone in the University
community who is dismayed
with the continuing inflexible
policies of the present
administration, resulting in
(See COALITION, page 2)
1. The general election
will be held April II, 1973.
2. The location of the
polls will be as follows: Arts
and Sciences — Main
Library, Graduate Studies,
Creswell, Russell, Park,
Memorial, Boggs, GGS;
Agriculture - Livestock-
Poultry Bldg., Plant Sci
ences Bldg ; Business Ad
ministration - P-J plaza.
Graduate Studies, Business
Administration Bldg , Rus
sell; Education - Aderhold,
Creswell, Memorial, boggs;
Forestry - Forest Resourc
es Bldg; Environmental
Design - Business Admini
stration Bldg., Home Eco
nomics — Dawson, GGS;
Journalism — Journalism
Reading Room, Law - Law
School Lounge; Veterinary
Medicine - Veterinary
Bldg.; Pharmacy - Phar
macy School, Graduate
School - Main Library,
Graduate Studies.
3. Voting is between
8:30 and 4:30.
4. No soliciting of votes
within 100 feet of said
polls.
5. Ballots must be cast
at polls where they are
issued.
6. Students must pre
sent l.D. card in order to
vote.
7. I.D. card must match
the name below the
student's picture with the
Inside today’s special
election supplement of The
Red and Black can be
found: complete platforms
by Coalition on page six and
PSA on page seven, an
interview with the executive
candidates which can be
found on pages four and
five; and a page of pictures
tracing the campaign to be
found on page three.
Compodu by STEPHEN JACKSON
name on the registration
certificate.
8. Students without I D.
card must secure a note
from Student Activities
(Frank Baird - Room 229,
Memorial.)
9. I.D cards will be
punched at the time the
ballot is given to the voter.
10. Names will be
marked off on the computer
print out of names for each
particular school.
11. No one is allowed to
copy names from the school
computer printout.
12. Only the votomatics,
the ballots, ballot boxes and
the hole punchers can be on
the table.
13. A member of the
student judiciary v.’ill stand
at the end of the voting
lines at 4:30 p.m. to prevent
voting after that time.
14. Hired SGA poll
workers are responsible for
polling sites and a member
of the student judiciary will
help bring the ballot boxes
to the Memorial Ballroom.
David Alonso resigned as
Coalition chairman Jan. 22.
Alonso frequently faced charg
es that he ran the party
without regard for the opinion
of others and he admitted that
he often threw his weight
around too much.
Alonso's resignation brought
a fight for chairmanship that
threatened to disrupt party
orgmization. At first, David
Bell received an endorsement
from Alonso, and most party
members saw no threat to his
assuming the position.
Scott McLarty, however,
managed enough votes to tie
Bell in the first caucus.
Charges were made by both
sides, and at one point it
looked like Coalition might
split. But in a second
chairmanship caucus (held Feb.
14) Bell defeated McLarty by a
margin of three to one. Soon
after McLarty withdrew from
student politics.
ANOTHER organization,
calling itself Student Associa
tion, also leveled charges
against Coalition.
Student Association worked
for implementation of PIRG
(Public Interest Research
(See HISTORY, page 2)
Why pick
PSA?
A statement
by PSA
Progressive Student Alliance
(PSA) was formed by a group
of hard working students
concerned with researching
issues, providing services for
students, and truly represent
ing students as they have all
year on University committees
and at the Board of Regents.
Danny Hughes, Bobby
Tankersley, and Debbie Currier
are the executive slate and
their qualifications arc un
equaled by anyone running for
office this spring.
PSA has proposed specific
solutions to problems in its
platform.
PSA proposes (lie publica
tion of an advisement manual
to more adequately advise
students. Such a manual would
provide all information con
cerning changing schools or
majors. It would also show all
requirements for graduation
for all schools and majors.
PSA further proposes a
change in the present grading
system so that students would
receive number grades instead
of letter grades. Under this
proposal a student would
receive a 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0,
3.5, or 4.0 grade.
(see PSA, page 2)
Inside todays
special issue