Viking_Yearbook_69

. . . . . . . . - .. ~ . . . . . . . . ... - - - . --- -- . --- . - -· .. - . . The famous six-hour coalition fell apart. An at– tempt was made to hijack the delivery of election day Vanguards. Rumors suggested that a wealthy candidate bought off one less wealthy candidate. And the frenzy of interest engendered by the elec– tions lasted only through the day-aft er-election hang– overs . As usual. The flavor of campaigning, for most candidat s, concerned a definition of Por tland State and what shape it will assume between its fourteenth birthday this year and its fift ntl o ' fif ieth birthday. Hayn es advo cat ed th e dissolut ion of stud en t government, extending th tutorial program, opening university admis ion, and in tituting an experimen– tal college for new courses. Quinton Mattson stressed the coordination of student act'vitie . M'ke Shannon thought "the char– ter should be rewritt en to allow fo r student choice" in regard to campus expansion. 12-22 -9 7 advocated salvaging Young 's Gown Shop, freeing the faculty through a civil rights campaign, and no grades. Stan Amy emphasized the need for student housing and curriculum reforms. Nearly 1 ,800 of 2 ,600 voters clearly rejected the neo-Nolan "leadership through responsibility" ticket upheld by Steve Washburn in favor of participating in the "conspiracy." The '69 elections remained, on one level, very typical : many candidates ran for the presidency; a slate of senators was elected; a student "govern– ment" was the object of intense interest for its usual two or three weeks; the losers were bitter or sportsmanlike and the winners were gracious/ self-satisfied. 109