The Exponent, 1968-10-31

              NORTHERN'S Big Name Entertainment has scheduled The First Edition for
The First Edition an all campus concert, Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m. in the Aberdeen Civic Arena.
Tickets are on sale in the Union Ballroom ticket office until noon tomorrow. (Sec
page 2 for group coverage.)
'Not attendance policy'
Student Personnel announces
absence policy for collegians e izo.frteost
THE OFFICE of Student Person-nel
has announced that any arrange-ments
to make up work are between
the instructor and the student, follow-ing
class absence by the student, and
that making up work for unauthorized
absence is a privilege. Excessive ab-sence
may result in being dropped
from the course with a failing grade.
Excuses for absence are neither pro-vided
by the Office of Student Per-sonnel,
or by the Student Health
Center. The Office of Student Person-nel
may suggest procedures to follow
after an absence and the Student
Health Center maintains a permanent
record of service performed. In emer-gencies
other than illness which neces-sitate
prolonged absence, a student
may request the Director of Student
Personnel, the Dean of Women, or the
Dean of Men to notify his instructors.
When a student participates in a
college activity requiring absence from
class, the Dean of the College will,
upon request of the sponsoring divi-sion,
recommend to instructors that the
student be permitted to make up the
work. Also, the student may present
an authorization signed by the faculty
sponsor of the activity.
This policy goes into effect immedi-ately.
Northern's authors
organize materials
for first 'Read-In
"DANGER: Live Wires! A Read-In,"
is the title of the first of a series of
meetings for participants of the "Books
and Coffee" sessions. Members of the
Language and Literature Department
have organized the sessions.
The first "Read-In" will be held
Oct. 31, in Memorial Union 100 at
3:30 p.m. According to Terrence M.
Raczko, assistant professor of English
and chairman of the informal get-to-gethers,
the first meeting will consist
of readings of the participant's own
writings and other selections of interest.
Students and faculty have been in-vited
to participate in the "Book and
Coffee" meetings by reading their own
works. Free coffee and rolls will be
served.
"This is only an absence policy, not
an attendance policy. I don't think it
is a new policy. It is just restating the
policy as we've had it," stated Don
Vogt, Director of Student Personnel.
Vogt continued, "It is not our intention,
nor is it our desire to dictate attendance
policies to the faculty or to the student.
If the student is really going to get any-thing
out of the course, he should at-tend
it, but this isn't our job to deter-mine
this."
Vogt stresses that "it is no longer
necessary for students to call the nurse's
office prior to missing that first class
because it will not be recorded in any
way. The Student Health Center will
keep a record of any students that
come in."
STUDENT SENATE at its weekly
meeting Tuesday night passed a resolu-tion
urging voters to cast a "no" vote
on Amendment B in the Nov. 5 general
election. A "no" vote would remove
the $7 million debt limit on the State
Building Authority.
Senate also added to its by-laws. In
all elections in which Student Senate
is a participant, there will be two days
of voting. Voting will be in the college
library and Union Building both days
from 7:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. Absentee bal-lots
will be made available to students
unable to be on campus on election
days.
Senate moved to furnish funds to
buy two large ballot boxes for use in
campus elections. Securing ballot boxes
from the city has in the past some-times
proved difficult.
In a fourth resolution, Senate decid-ed
to attach the names and addresses
of Senators and the meeting times of
Senate to the gift packs to be distri-buted
to students.
During the second nine weeks of
this semester, President Jeff Bartels,
Vice-President Gary Bertsch, and Sec-retary
Fran Hill will be practice teach-ing.
In their absence, Dave Hilgemann,
Aberdeen senior, will conduct the
meetings and treasurer Jean Jensen will
be secretary.
Three new committees were estab-lished
this week. Senators Kathy Gross,
JAMES FARMER, former National
Director of CORE, will appear on
Northern's campus Tuesday, Nov. 19,
at 9:25 a.m. in the Administration
Auditorium. His topic: "The Negro in
America: What Must Be Done."
Dave Hilgemann, and Mary Gottsleben
will investigate the advantages and dis-advantages
of allowing the establish-ment
of social fraternities and sororities
at Northern. Gross, Gottsleben, and
Keaton Raines will research the feasi-bility
of a pass-fail grading system.
Merle Hansen, Senate advisor, and
three Senators, Pat Carey, Wayne
Schlekeway, and Kathy Gross, will
study the possibility of establishing a
student grievance committee.
Keaton Barnes asked the Traffic
Committee to look into the possible
changing of the rule against backing
into a parking space. The Traffic Com-mittee
will also investigate various
other student questions about parking
regulations.
Jerry McNeary asked that students
be made aware of their legal respon-sibilities
when they become involved
in an automobile accident. President
Bartels said he would look into the
matter as a service to students.
In other action: Randy Howell said
he would report next week as to whe-ther
the FM election should be re-scheduled;
Jim Cramer will check into
the feasibility of Senate bussing stu-dents
from campus to home basketball
games; Wayne Schlekeway will see if
Senate can meet at the various dorms
sometime during the year; and Scotty
Hannum reported that Big Name Com-mittee
"at least" broke even on the
Sandpiper's concert.
He has been one of the pioneers in
developing non-violent direct action
methods for the resolution of race re-lations
problems. He is one of the
founders of the Congress of Racial
Equality (CORE) in 1942, and became
National Director of CORE in 1961.
James Farmer
Nixon-Agnew gain
NORTHERN students went biparti-san
in the campus mock election as
they endorsed fourteen Democrats and
twelve Republicans. The students gen-erally
favored incumbents.
The Nixon-Agnew ticket defeated the
Humphrey-Muskie team 233-214. Wal-lace's
third party effort collected 30
votes.
More students voted in the Senatorial
contest than in any other race. Incum-bent
Democrat Senator George Mc-
Govern crushed his Republican op-ponent
Archie Gubbrud 422-79. An-other
incumbent, Republican Congress-man
Ben Reifel, defeated Frank Den-holm
332-160.
Attorney General Frank Farrar de-feated
Robert Chamberlin 304-188 in
the race for governor, while Republi-can
James Abdnor put down George
Blue by 41 votes.
Other Republicans winning state
level offices in the mock election were
Alma Larson, Secretary of State, and
Wild times in store
for campus corps
says Business Club
BUSINESS Club's annual Carnival
will be held Thursday, Nov. 7, in
Dacotah Hall. Concessions will open
at 7:30 p.m. There will be no gen-eral
admission.
All proceeds from the carnival will
be used to finance the club's spring
trip to Minneapolis where they tour
various business places.
The raffle number for the stereo
will be announced during the evening.
Ron Staebel, chairman of the Booth
Committee, encourages all students
and faculty to participate in the vari-ous
games from golf putting to wild
mouse ago to Casino.
There will also be various prizes to
be given away throughout the evening.
All that is necessary is to register your
name and to be present at the time
of the drawing. All prizes have been
donated by various Aberdeen mer-chants.
Chuck Nelson, chairman of the car-nival,
"guarantees that everyone who
attends will receive some satisfaction
and pleasure for his time."
Farmer led the Freedom Ride, be-ginning
on May 4, 1961, in Washing-ton,
D. C., and was with one of the
first groups arrested in Jackson, Mis-sissippi.
He spent 40 days in various
Mississippi jails and penitentiaries as a
result. He was also one of 300 CORE
members arrested in symbolic protest
on the opening day of the New York
World's Fair against the segregation
and discrimination practiced by many
states exhibiting there.
He has lectured extensively and
written for numerous publications. His
first full length book, FREEDOM —
WHEN? was published by Random
House in 1966. In reviewing the book
for Book Week, M. B. Tolson wrote:
"FREEDOM — WHEN? displays a
James Farmer who can use expertly
either the rapier or the broadsword
when faced with rationalization, soph-histries,
half-truths, hidden promises,
dilemmas.
Farmer, the grandson of a slave,
was born in Texas. He received a B.S.
in chemistry from Wiley College when
he was 18 years old and he earned a
Bachelor of Divinity degree at Howard
University's School of Religion when he
was 21.
Bernard Linn, Commissioner of School
and Public Lands. Linn defeated his
25 year old opponent, Kermit Sande,
by ten votes.
Four Democrats captured state level
offices: James Abourezk, Attorney Gen-eral;
Robert Foster, State Auditor;
Peter Johansen, State Treasurer; and
Thomas Smith, Public Utilities Com-missioner
for the second district.
Tie votes marked both the Senate
and House races for Brown County. In
the Senate, where two were to be
elected, Republican H. C. Clark col-lected
248 votes to clinch his seat.
GOP candidate E. C. Pieplow and
Democrat Allen Sperry tied for second
219-219. Two Republican and two
Democrat candidates for state repre-sentative
from Brown County were en-dorsed.
Democrats Bob Dell and Bernie
Kopecky drew 246 and 241 votes re-spectively.
Republican "Bud" Wood
placed third with 228 votes. Jay Swish-er
and Jim Lust, both GOP candidates,
tied for fourth with 224 votes.
Democrats dominated county offices
as C. B. Quam, candidate for County
Commissioner, and Don Daly, Jr.,
candidate for sheriff, scored the only
Republican victories. Students elected
Dr. Sam Holman, County Commission-er,
B. L. Larson, County Treasurer,
Evelyn Lord, County Auditor, C. Har-land
Leighty, Clerk of Courts, Donna
Kuhfeld, County Register of Deeds,
Ellis Gates, County Coroner, and Bill
Hauck, States Attorney.
The total voting turnout was not
available due to the destruction of the
ballots after the initial vote totals were
tabulated.
Halloween spooks
join Talisman fest
JACK-O-LANTERNS, goblins
and black cats will be the post-
Halloween setting for this Satur-day's
SAC activity in the Union
Ballroom. The Social Affairs com-mittee
is busy preparing for the
dance which will feature "The
Talisman" with their new female
vocalist, Carol Moe (as in Roe).
Admission is only 25 cents with
show time 8 p.m.
'NORTHERN'S STUDENT VOICE'
Volume 67, No. 8 Northern State College — Aberdeen, South Dakota 57401
October 31, 1968
Former CORE Director to discuss
Negroes in America, race problem
Senate passes by-law;
urges amendment 'No'
Mock election displays
incumbents as winners