MWednesday, February 24, 1988 , Milwaukee, Wis.Vol. 72 No. 70

Editorial:

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. -~,' Id might not want Scott's effective. leader-One of the hardest things in the wor this 'to make a public retraction. But there ship and dedication. to serving .e

students "some may attribute thisare times, thankfully the exception r.ather " t " tretraction to a desire on our part 0 gethan the rule, when new facts require re- back "at Walker. This is untrue, but it is aevaluation of a. sincere and carefully

thought-out position. We find ourselves perception we have to risk. '.' . 'We examined the brochure Without Itsin precisely this situation. reference to the editonat board and ask-Tuesday, we announced our belief

that "each of the two (ASMU) presiden- ed ourselves, "If this was' part of thetial candidates offers significant im- standard Walker campaign literature

·provements over this year's adrninistra- when we held the interviews, would we,tion" and that "either candidate would have written the endorsement

. serve the student body well." We no differently?"'I longer believe this to be the case. In light Everyone of us had to answer yes. Weof developments since Sunday evening could not have written, in good cons-we now conclude that John Quigley cience, that Walker would be a good

II alone shows the qualifications we deem president. In our opinion, no one who11 necessary to successtui leadership of responds to opposition by _distorting (if

ASMU., not as.Sassinating) -the character of hisBoth Scott Walker and John Quigley opponent and making oouty accusations

presented themselves at our endorse- , 'deserves to be president of the student,ment ,interviews as above-board'can- body. But this, of course, is somethingdidates. They genuinely 'concerned . the student body will have to decide.themselves withthe issues' and declined We are also disappointed by reports ofto smear each other, even,when asked Walker campaign personnel picking upto elaborate on the weaknesses of their armfuls of Tuesday's Tribune and throw-Opponent's platform. But Tuesday morn- ing them away. We are disapPointed rioting,a Scott Walker campaign brochure because the papers contained our en-was distributed .on campus. which dorsements, but because it is a serious?mounts to.nothing more than a blatant shame to see hours' of 'work andmudslinging spree. " thousands Ofadv'ertising dollars i.Walker's::opponent is characterized, deliberately made. useless;' And. mostly' :misleadingly, as ':constantly' shout(ing), because a great 'number of Marquette 1about fighting the" administratiori,"as .students were, d~prived of a Chance to !"threatening lawsuits'·' and 'as "trYOng) "see the paper - coverage arthe Maya !to lead several ineffectiveprotests"ofhis "Angelou 'presentation and the Iown." In short, the stiJdent body is asked . -r- Marquette-Virginia 'Tech' game" among IilQvjew. Qujgl~y .as:a .» Wjld-eyedradical .', .~other stories and the four-page healthdetermined to rouse the .students" into 'supplement. . i

surrounding O'Hara Hall with stones and We'd like to invite anyone,«ho wasn't J',' " speC3,rs:·,;,His·plattorm is':':'caricaturedas able 'to pick up' a paper Tuesday to stop 1

.,{"i~S!c"a~~~~,h'i:::~~:~;~i;~ur~s,:;;~ ..~~~~~~~~nelfOff~~~inr;~~ns;~~~~I~ icontrary" to .the text 'of Tuesday's en- dorsements, though, remember a' revi-porsement -:- that ;"the ,e.ditoria/:board,· sion vyas necessary. i""~'~~.~r~--------~~-----'>~""~'~"~--"~~~~"~~~"~i

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"eradmitsviolating caPlpaignrules~~t'YMqA.~ I?.t.( / 8~ ...."'Th~ .ib~pl~i·~t·sai~:L~~ii;;~is~',~n·~~~::- ~~e--~i~.:-~'~~ -b:~~'--~~;ng t~"~~'"a -~l~:~~"~ihe;-i;~~vld::alsh~~e';u~ In,", 'Thl~~k

and sciences freshman and resident, of the c~paignsince day one' arid if no violations said. He said: itmust be realized "what is'YMCA;'had aplatform'put under her door have been filed, it's because we've been the most realistic and bestthing to do intheby JohannaRodriguez.ialso an arts "and running a. clean campaign and not because interest of ASMU and the students andsciences freshman and YMCA resident. of Scott Walker's.generosity," Marquette."

Since Rodrigueziis riot a registered . In otherelection news, Thimot express- lIe estimated that 90 percent of the peo-Walker campaign worker, Thimot said her edanger at the ASMU Senate for defeating .. pie working the polls are not as familiar

.actions are not technically inviolation of-by vote25-3-1 a proposal allowing him to with the ballot process as ASMU peoplethe door-to-door campaigning rule, Thimot use people, who have served as elected or _would be and therefore the potential existssaid', however, the Walker campaign did appoi~tedASMU membersany time dur-. for a greaternumber of invalid ballots.'violate a section of the election rules which ·ing the semester of the election, to work at Thimot also said the name of speechsays, "All ,nominees must submit a corn- . the .polls. "I. thin~ it is absolutely- senatorial' candidate· Kerry Dziubek,. 'aplete list of official campaign workers." ridiculous and apalling and even selfish on freshman, is misspelled on the ballot. He

Walkersaid he does not want' to get in- the part of senators to vote overwhelmingly said an "n" is In place of the "u" in hervolved in the "dog race" of who accuses against using ASMUmembers to staff the last name. Because the ballots havealreadythe other candidate ·of the most violations. polls," Thimot "said. ... .. been printed, '~Ireally don't think that. I. "We have not filed one campaign' Tuesday night Thimot said there was the can getthe name changed on the ballot,"grievance this entire election,' Walker. possibility- that five residence halls would . Thirnot said. . '~"" """ ..said. "I would rather take the high road.' not have open polls- "a majority of the Hepointed to the election rules whichand take that where it leads me." , time.~'· say, . ~'A minor error (e.g., a minor

McG.!lrthy ';said' the grievance was "They (ASMU Senate) don't haye to put : misspelling) shall not be considered ground. necessary because' 'it was an infraction of in 35 hours that myself and avery few for' delay or invalidation of an election. " '

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:se\~ampaign privileges at({Ele.etion.s·CorriI?issi6ner..mgmeenng semor.complaint filed Mondayy!g,caIripaign manager,a,business administration'ilL on Sunday, February.er.supporter was seen in-,:under closed and half;YMCA.';/say; ."TheOffice ofhas . expressly . forbidden:tampaigning or. cold-call:.:'." ,

,Siol~tion was the resultSl1ssupporter; There 'was"tocontrol it."

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