The Exponent, 1962-04-18

              Andy Parks Dennis Osterholt
Steve Wiitala
John Spear
John Williamson To Head Slate Four . • See Lead Story
John Williamson MorriIs Ba tes Karen Gayton Sheila Smith
Student Council Posts Sought By Four Slates
Nominees Schedule
Pre-Election Events
As Balloting Nears
Petersen In Top Spot On Slate Two .. . Story In Column One
Andy Parks Will Lead Slate Three .
The Exponent Schedules Meeting
Education Division
A special assembly will be held
April 26 at 9:30 a.m. for all students
planning to do their student teaching
any time during the next academic
year. This includes both two-year and
four-year curriculum students in pro-fessional
education, according to Dr.
W. C. Gemeinhardt, chairman of the
division of education and psychology.
Secondary education students are
to meet in the Administration Audi-torium
and four-year elementary ma-jors
will meet in L-213. Two-year ele-mentary
students will hold their meet-ing
in the Library Auditorium.
Gemeinhardt said the meetings are
to be held to enable students who
want student teaching prior to the
change to semesters to work it in.
They will also advise students about
the courses they must complete prior
to the end of the winter quarter if
they plan to do student teaching any
time during the year.
These meetings will enable the Di-vision
of Education and Psychology
to know how many students will want
student teaching, who they are and
what their majors are so that plans
may be made for placing the teach-ers.
Three main points will serve as the
basis for the platform of Slate 2,
headed by Rand Petersen, Lemmon
sophomore, in the April 30 student
council election.
According to Petersen, the first
plank of the platform consists of
working to get more social affairs
sponsored by both the Student Coun-cil
and the various other student
Silver Bracelet
Lost On Campus
A silver bracelet of a leaf design
was lost Friday morning, April 6
on campus. If the bracelet is
found, the person finding it should
contact Mrs. Helene Prendergast,
Graham Hall housemother.
groups on campus.
"We will work," said Petersen,
"towards having activities not only
on one week-end night, but on both
Friday and Saturday evenings. Events
could be scheduled such as card par-ties
and dances for these nights. We
would like to see two more semi-formals
on campus such as the home-coming
dance open only to college
students. Also, we would like to bring
back the Christmas Formal or spon-sor
a formal dance besides the Prom
in the spring for the entire student
body."
As their second point, the slate
considers it essential to "make full
use of the facilities of the Exponent."
Elaborating on this statement, Peter-sen
said that they will have the min-utes
of every meeting published, and
when the suggestion box is used, the
suggestions of importance to the stu-dent
body will be printed in the Ex-
With four slates in the running,
platforms are being planned, speeches
written, and excitement has begun to
grow in pre-election preparations for
the campus Student Council Elections
scheduled for April 30, according to
Chuck Carrier, president of the Stu-dent
Council.
Since last week's edition of the Ex-ponent,
which announced the first
slate of candidates, three others have
entered the race.
Vying for the presidential spot on
Slate Two is Rand Petersen, Lemmon
sophomore. Running with him are
James Hoye, Aberdeen sophomore,
candidate for vice president; Janice
Buehler, Huron junior, nominated for
secretary; and Kristi Vensand, Aber-deen
sophomore, who will compete
for treasurer.
Slate Three's all-male roster is
headed by Andrew Parks, junior from
Fredericktown, Missouri, in the con-test
for president. Dennis Osterholt,
Platte junior, is this slate's candidate
for vice president; Steve Wiitala,
Frederick junior, is running for sec-retary;
and John Spear, Ashton junior,
is vying for the treasurer's post.
The latest list of candidates to an-nounce
has John Williamson, Pierre
junior, in the presidential slot. Com-pleting
the list of Slate Four nomi-nees
are Morris Bates, Webster junior,
vice presidential candidate; Karen
Gayton, Selfridge, N. Dak. sopho-more,
running for secretary; and Shei-la
Smith, Aberdeen junior, vying for
treasurer.
Slate One, announced last week,
includes Carl Kline, Aberdeen junior,
presidential candidate; James Gaffey,
Clark junior, candidate for vice pres-ident;
Jan Kruse, Parkston sophomore,
competing for secretary; and Linda
Koenders, Watertown freshman, nom-inee
for treasurer.
Formulation of a platform has been
completed by both Slates Two and
Three, while the statement of goals
for the other two will be ready for
next week's paper. All petitions must
be in Monday, April 23, added Car-rier.
Platform Stresses
Social, Intellectual
Aspects Of College
The members of Slate 3, headed by
Andy Parks, Fredericktown, Mo. soph-omore,
have built their platform a-round
the social and intellectual as-pects
of Northern.
In a statement prepared for the
Exponent, Parks outlined the slate's
plan for student government. Parks
stated, "We of Slate 3 do ordain this
platform to be the key center of our
efforts in establishing a strong student
government for the students at North-ern.
"Granted that in the past nearly
all slates have established a platform
that promised many things that they
would accomplish if they were elect-ed.
We realize that a very small per-centage
of these promises were ful-filled
after the election. Therefore,
Slate 3 submits the following state-ment
as our platform.
"If elected, we pledge to combine
dedication and hard work in an effort
to achieve proper student voice in the
advancing of social activities and in-tellectual
growth of Northern.
"The candidates of Slate 3," added
Parks, "represent nearly every phase
of student life at Northern. The pres-idential
candidate is represenative of
the athletic-minded students. Our
candidate for vice-president repre-sents
the life of those who live
on campus. The candidate for secre-tary
represents the off-campus stu-dents
and the nominee for treasurer
is representative of the members of
of the fraternities."
In summing up the platform, Parks
concluded, "We feel that a slate that
represents the students must be com-posed
of students that are capable of
representing all of the students."
Rand Petersen James Hoye Janice Buehler
•
Kristi Vensand
•
• Story In Column Five
Volume 60, No. 27 South Dakota's Northern College — Aberdeen, South Dakota
April 18, 1962
Student Voice In Planning Campus Affairs Vital
To Effective Council Work In Serving College
ponent, and if necessary will be
brought to a general vote by the stu-dent
body.
Finally, if elected the members of
Slate 2 will invite everyone to the
council meetings to air their view so
we may know what the students wish
done.
Berggren, Cogswell
To Appear On TV
Dr. John R. Berggren, chairman of
the division of fine arts, and Mark E.
Cogswell, assistant professor of edu-cation,
will appear on Northern's TV
show, "Your College and You," on
Easter Sunday at 12:30 p.m.
Cogswell will speak on "The Trans-forming
Power of The Resurrection,"
and Berggren will sing two songs ap-propriate
for the occasion.