tl19500421-000 "Vote The Primary TO Vote The Primary LIGHT Vol. 3, No. 16 STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE, TOWSON, MD. April 21, 1950 ELECTION NOTICE 1. Date of Primary Election: Thursday, 27 April 2. Time of Primary Election: 8:30 A. M. to 3:00 P. M. 3. Place of Primary Election: Room 214 CANDIDATES WOMEN'S ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION 1. PRESIDENT: Arline Compton, Beth Kopelke, Leona Redemann 2. VICE-PRESIDENT: Eileen Skinner, Catherine Wilt 3. SECRETARY: Reland Bassette, Mary Ellen Hoffmeister, Doris Knode, Flo Ruland 4. TREASURER: Mary Fiery, Suzanne Pretty, Dolores Saukites, Ann Weber MEN'S ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION 1. PRESIDENT: Edward Leonard, Robert Watson 2. VICE-PRESIDENT: Herbert August, Jay Gernand 3. SECRETARY: Charles Royer, Bernie Wolf 4. TREASURER: Elmer Dize, John Lowe STUDENT GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION 1. SECRETARY: Beatrice Hannam TOWER LIGHT 1. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Paul D. Carre 2. MANAGING EDITOR: Marilou Pritchard FRESHMAN CLASS 1. PRESIDENT: Ann Coyne, Anne Eisenberger, Lois Schweikert, Vernon Smith, Peter Stewart 2. VICE-PRESIDENT: Bucky Beneze, Carol Bull, James Cede, Tom Jackson, John McColgan, Jane Wunder 3. SECRETARY: Effie Brown, Anita Engel, Sylvia Godsey, Pat Hog- Jean Jarrell, Nancy Kinter, Janet Swann, Bernice Tamkus 4. TREASURER: Lois Denhardt, Mary Judefind, Joan Migliarini, Neal Moerschell, Barbara Trhlic, Charles White 5. DAY SOCIAL: Hope Brown, Ruth Galperin, Virginia Gosgrove, Marion Griffith, Bill Hennemann, Martha Hoffman, Bill Kenty, Mary Lou Keyes, Jim Peeling, Pat Stiemly, Caroline Sutherland, Jackie Wagner 6. DORM SOCIAL: Pat Cochran, Cornelia Fenby, Mary Gallaher, Jnnac , �',iat Stone Joan Hattersley, 7. SGA REPRESENTATIVE: Bob Van Horn, Ursula Oliver, Don Taylor, Melanie Wagner Candidates Kick Off! Hofmeister Kicks In By Paul D. Carre Pre-election predictions of a hotly-contested campaign for student government of-fices were supported this week by the fervor and fever which both candidate and consti-tuent exhibited at the first public political demonstration in the auditorium. The speechmaking was true to form. The candidates, scrubbed and manicured, doused their political oratory with the usual ingredients � truth and half-truth, buncombe and blather. And the audience, pre-sent more by compulsion than by desire, was not loathe, in the end, to admit to a high glee whipped up by the proceedings. Almost within the hour, the complexion of the election race changed. What before had appeared to be a wide-open issue among four strong contestants switched, with the unexpected withdrawal of Mr. Hofmeister, to what now looms as a point-blank campaign fight between the sober candidacy of Mr. Hammerman and the first-swinging politics of Mr. Clarence (You know him as Nick) Hoddinott. Mr. Hofmeister's move was completely unrehearsed. It was not, contrary to popular suspicion, a case of premeditated murder. At the same time, the political potential of the quiet and unassuming Mr. Zvonar cannot, even in the face of the Hofmeister switch, be dis-counted from the total election picture. Zvonar, in his own right, came to the convention with a hopechest full of votes, and his polite canner-isms on the stump added, if anything, more friends than enemies. Conceivably, he could be the dark horse. Candidate Comments HAMMERMAN: ""Last Tuesday, I presented my platform�ninety per cent of which specifically outlined topics on which I definitely took a stand and pre-dented my viewpoints. ""Everything I stated still goes; everything I said followed the clos-ing thought of my campaign ad-dress, which I repeat again: "" 'The essential ingredients of a harmonious student body represent-ed in a democratic government is not doctrine but intelligence, not authority but reason, not cynicism but faith in man, and faith in God.' ""This I do believe.�`Our strength lies in the fearless pursuit of truth by the minds of men and women who are free. Free from falsehoods, rumors and political motrthings.' HODDINOTT: ""I would like to clarify any mis-understanding in the interpretation of my platform. ""I want to say that there is no-thing personal in the issues brought forward by me. ""I do, however, want to stress that I will fight for those ivues, , if elected president. ""The watchword still is progres-sive student action through a united student voice."" HOFMEISTER: ""My principal reason for running for this office was to assure the presence at the top of the SGA of a strong leader who will assert the right: and the beliefs of the students. Aggression is not my wish and never has been. However, firmly endorse the right of the stu-dent to take an active interest in any matters not primarily academic �to assert themselves against any force. ""I emphatically oppose the efforts to change the set-up of the SGA. We don't want assemblies abolished �we want them short and interest-ing. If the SGA really takes active measures for the student benefit., the assemblies will be interesting. Under no circumstances should the students lose their last resort to defeat a measure on the floor of the assembly. Remember the Organ Fund! ""My support of Nick Hoddinott (Continued on Page 2) On the other hand � and more important � had he, too, with-drawn from the election race, the campaign would be even more clearly a mere vote-getting contest between the two principals. With Zvonar still in the race, there poses the prickly question of whose candidacy� Hammerman's or Hoddinott's�will suffer most by the subtraction of the Zvonar votes from his election total. It is possible, too, that the surprise withdrawal of Mr. Hofmeister and the continued campaign of Mr. Zvonar, will contribute materially to a final decision in the primaries, minus the added burden of a run-off election. Probably the most effective result of the switch is immediate. Its dramatic appeal certainly has fired the enthusiasm of the student popu-lation, and the coed corner conversations are now sprinkled more with politics than with romance. The Hammerman-Hoddinott dilemma is foremost in the minds of the electorate; its consequences will inevitably be a record vote in the primary. Mr. Hammerman, clean-shaven and natty in blue serge, entered the convention with a sober voice and a soberer manuscript. In 36 minutes protracted of oratory, aided and abetted by the propaganda of the de-mure and attractive Miss Mariner and hired hands, he set forth his Traingle Party platform on five planks: (1) A reorganization of the student government, (2) A suggestion for the building program, (3) A support for the student Organ Fund, (4) A proposal for a college-wide yearbook and (5) A suggestion for increased campus social life. If Mr. Harrunerman's campaign utterances were calm and deliberate, the s'peeclunaking of Candidate Hoddinott smacked of scrappy, grass-roots politics. With precision befitting the Vice-President of the Men's Athletic Association, he hammered out the essentials which, in the political mind of the Progressive Student Action ticket, denoted pro-gress In student affairs. The politically-intelligent Mr. Hoddinott, alert to student sentiment upon major issues, was stopped occasionally in his address by the ap-plause and catcails of the constituency. His campaign manager, Mr. Warren Stroh, with vitriolic comments about the alleged ""high school"" nature of the college, lifted the audience from their seats in an ecstasy common to political rallies on a grander scale. Mr. Hoddinott, it would seem, won friends and influenced people. Visibly pleased by the reversal of Mr. Hoffmeister, he told the press: ""Tho Hoddinott platform and the Hofmeister platform have much in common. I am glad to have Bob aboard."" On the heels of the Hofmeister post-mortem, the patient Mr. Zvonar, with his eye on the clock and his mind on the primary, stood briefly to present his three-point program: (1) Non-compulsory SGA assemblies with section voting, (2) an SGA bulletin to students, and (3) in the way of policy, a declaration that the student government president, who-ever he might be, should be more a representative of the students than an ""intermediary"" between student and administration. Throughout most of the campaign oratory there was an unmis- 4-1-shi- of dissatisfaction with respect to enhnnl nriminietrAtivP GM,/ policies affecting student activities. Much of the cristicism, to the em-barressment of the candidates, had little basis in fact. Certain thoughtful students were moved at convention-end to commend the ""admirable"" restraint of the college president in his post-convention remarks."
