1973_05 The Daily Collegian May 1973

              Hill, Schmidt contest to be
decided in runoff election
.
By Royal Alvoid
and Dennis .Morglgno
A runofj election tomorrow between Tom Hill and Kurt Schmidt
will decide the ASB presidential
rack?.
Mill was the top vote getter of
five candidates In yesterday's
primary election, garnering 560
votes of Ihe total 1.378 cast for
president. Schmidt finished a
close second with 543 votes.
Out of contention were Keith
Endsley with 130 votes, George
Nagel wtth 86 and Michael Rocra
wtth 59.
tn somewhat of a *ur prise, incumbent Chuck .N'orolan was
eliminated from Wednesday's
runoff in his bid for the Senate
Board on Athletics post In the
runoff will be Dlanne Lamb, who
leathered 496 votes, and Fells
Malta, who got 394 votes. Nornlan
mAS named on 349 ballots.
All the other posts In tho election were filled by a simple ma*
jortty. Uoles** a candidate receives over 50 per cent of the
vole, a runoff Is held bet ween the
two top candidates.
Dave  Davenport   and Slprlano
Martinez were unopposed fo.* the
positions of legislative aid. administrative vice presidents, respectively. Davenport received
913 votes. Martinez. 906.
John Cho narrowly defeated
Albert Lucero for Senator-At-
I.arge Post One by a vote of
552 to 543.
For Post Two. Maryann Soo
beat Mario Galvan 672 to 505.
Marge'Centrella, Mary Coffey
and Maria Garcia were unopposed
for the spots for Post Three.
Four and Five, respectively.
Centrella received more votes
than any randtdate in the election
with 909. Coffey received 648
votes. Garcia, 546.
Daniel Casas was re-elected
to the post of Senator for A-l-
I.arge Post Six. defeating Matthew
Potihast 625 to 448.
Ml ml He nek. who ran on an
unofficial slate with Centrella and
Coffey, easily became next year's
College Union senator. She defeated Klchard Hesponte 699 to
3.81
Gloria Acosta. with 659. will
assume the position of Senator for
the   Board on Publications.   Her
opponent* Inetta Hanktns, failed
to submit a statement of campaign expenditure with the Election Committee and was disqualified from the counting.
John Eryslan, with 79$ votes,
was elected Senator for the Board
on Performing Arts. A possible
threat from a write-In candidate
was negated when Becky Case
also failed to file her expense
statement.
Despite his victory In the general election. Hill foresees a
tough battle in the runoff. Although Rocca announced after the
count late last night that he now
supports Hill. Schmidt said he
expects some support from Nagel
and half of Endsley *s support.
Unless Hill can find some new
areas of support. Schmidt would
appear to he the favorite In the
runoff. ^
"If the Greeks show on Wednesday I'll kill him (Hill) by 400
voles. It will be a landslide,"
said Schmidt.
Schmidt added he felt what he
termed "bad press* hurt him
referring, in part, to The Dally
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TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1973
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CALIFORNIA       STATE       U N,,l  VERS
I T Y
FRESNO
Across the nation • • .
lit \N I IKU>   AIIH-S lU.SK.N
President Nixon fired White
House counsel John Dean III yesterday and announced the resignations of Alty. Gen Klchard
Klelndtenst and top White House
aides H. K. Haldeman and John
Khrltchman. All of the officials
are Involved in the Watergate
bugging scandal.
Nixon appointed Secretary of
defense Elliot Richardson to replace Klelndlenst and authorized
him to oversee all federal Investigations into'the Watergart affair. In a televised speech last
night the President accepted responsibility for the bugging although he denied that he had any
knowledge of it when It occurred.
MXON ISVOLVF.MaKNT HIM I h
California Rep. John Moss
asked the House yesterday to create a special committee to Investigate "posslrjle Involvement of
the President in conduct flaaWrh
might lead to initiation of Impeachment action.• Vfoss said
the resignation of several top
aides yesterday indie-led\that
Nixon was aware of the Watergate Incident when H happened.
Other members of the California congressional delegation proposed that retired US Chief Justice.Earl Warren be appointed to
direct an Investigation of Nixon's
alleged Involvement In the Watergate affair
TV\ KH-OKM
A new tax-reform program designed to tighten loopholes used
by high-Income' taxpayers was
revealed yesterday by the Nixon
administration. The proposal
would establish a minimum taxable Income and limit what the
administration terms "artificial
accounting losses."
Other provisions of the plan
include property tax relief for Ihe
elderly, an Investment tax credit
for oil and gas exploration, and a
tuition credit for students in nonpublic schools.
mom on TAIJt.K
Administration sources said
yesterday that presidential adviser Henry Kissinger will fly
to Moscow Thursday for talks
with Communist party leader
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t>a»ul kuroda
ASB ADMINISTRATIVE VICE president Hal Bolen tallies lastnlqht's
primary ejection returns attout midway through the tabulation.Ballot
counting was held in the faculty dining room. The totals indicated
a runoff between presidential candidates Kurt Schmidt and Thomas
Hill scl for tomorrow.
BOD denies Backwash funds,
hears plan for new bylaws
By Marc Sant
Staff Writer
The Vresno Stale College Association Hoard of Directors
turned down a request yesterday
for a carry-over of funds for
Hack wash. CSUF's literary magazine, and discussed the proposed organizational restructuring of the FSC Association and
Its bylaws.
Michael MrCulre. Backwash
editor, requested that the board
allow a $209 savings from last
semester's publication costs be
applied to this semester's magazine.
McCuIre said that last semester's submissions to Backwash
were fewer lhan normal and that
the staff had decided to cut publication hosts with a smaller
magazine - the $209 savings In
publication costs to be applied to
a "bigger and better Backwash"
this semester, he said.
But BOD student member Larry
Marl pointed out that Backwash,
because of poor sales last semester, did not generate enough
funds to pay back to the Association $300 In anticipated revenues.
Backwash Is currently funded
for two semesters at $1,615, but
$600 of that Is expected lo be repaid to Ihe Association through
magazine sales. Last semester
Backwash generated only $146 in
sales,   leaving   a   $154  deficit.
Backwash must produce $454 ln
revenue this semester is tt is
to return to the Association the
$600. Mart noted that only 500
copies of Backwash are printed
and at 75 cents a copy, even If
all were sold this semester,
Backwash would still be faced
with a deficit.
Board Chairman Dr. Ralph
Evans told McGuIre that the
amount funded to publish Backwash is based upon estimated
Income return from sales.
He said Backwash "must live
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Peace Pilgrim: overcoming evil with good, hatred with love
By Dlanne Berg
Staff Writer
Going on the belief that -all
people have a spark of good In
them, even if It's deeply burled/
Peace Pilgrim has spent the past
twenty years and more meeting
as many as she can.
The lesson she hopes to leave
with all Is the possibility for
peace - not only between nations, but among Individuals and
the essential "inner peace.*
She has walked over the 48
continental states as well as
Canada and Mexico, carrying her
few essential possessions and
wearing a navy tunic with her
professional, and ln half the
states, legal name boldly set
across the front. On her back,
the same white block lettering
states: "25.000 miles walked for
peace."
Tha; figure ls Inaccurate,
claimed the white-hatred woman
ln a talk to some students at
CSUF.  In   fact, the 25,000 mile
figure was reached in 1964, and
she hasn't counted a mile since.
"My tunic makes my contacts
for me," she explained. "Sooner
or later someone is curious
enough to approach me, and I'm
able to talk to him about peace."
Peace Pilgrim accepts no
money and belongs to no organization, but her theory of the
goodness of people holds for her.
"I fast until I am offered food,
and I walk until I am offered
shelter. People always come forward to help."
The essentlsl ingredients for
peace on all levels, she claims,
are to "overcome evil with rood,
falsehoods with the truth, and
hatred with love."
Not discouraged by the years
of voicing a once less popular
cause, she believes that the
means shapes the end, and has
faith that her "good means" can
only come to a good end. She
feels a major change ln opinion
has already taken place lu favor
of peace.
"People can learn from their
mistakes, and I think they have
finally realized that war does no
good," she said.
She said she thought world
peace could be possible through
the Institution of a world law, as
the Individual states relinquished .
to the nation the power to make
war.
Obviously full of pep. peace
Pilgrim claimed she felt
"plugged-ln to the source of universal energy," but said she was
not always so.
Roughly 35 years ago, she said,
she was living at only three to
five per cent of her actual potential, as she claims most human
beings do.
"I   was   making   money and
spending it foolishly - the usual,"
she said. "Thenl began to change
my   ways to emphasize  giving
-rather than getting."
It took her the next fifteen years
to complete her spiritual and
psychological "growingup,"when
her thoughts were no longer self-
centered but centered in the "good
of the whole." She sees all people
as Integral cells of the same
whole, so that If some are sick,
the rest must work harder to keep
the organism healthy.
Her development wasn't free
from struggle, she said, as the
elements of body, mind and emotions are In conflict with materialistic versus necessary things
In life.
"When your wants and needs
are the same. Ihen It Is possible
for inner peace," she said. She
pointed out that individual need
levels vary, but a surplus of anything could be shunned.
She pointed out that the life of
a pilgrim is an extreme one, but
had suggestions for those who
would strive for4ndividual peace.
•I would recommend giving
rather than getting," Peace Pilgrim said. "And it helps to get
lid of negative thoughts. Whenever possible, one should spend
time alone for Inspiration and in-
sight.* —""
When ssked about a special
program of study, she pointed out
that more study Isn't as effective
as beginning to live all the good
things one already believes in.
Too many people, she said, believe one set of values and live
by another, which could cause
nothing but discomfort.
When one schleves the calm of
Inner peace, she said, he or she
ls able to love all people fbr what
they could be, for the spark of
good ln them, no matter how revolting they rosy be acting.
When enough people have found
Inner peace, and generations are
t rained la a more peaceful manner, she believes, world peace)
will become a reality.
Peace Pilgrim, who never discloses herftrue naroe, age or
state of origin, was la Fresno oa
aa every-five-year swing to the
Watt Coast. She said she stays
in the United Statea primarily
be cause aha feels It la the roost
Influential country ln the world.