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DEC. 11, 1969

VOL. 41, NO. 5

SUNY BUFFALO

SINCE 1929

Retereridum Today11
Student Association President Bill Austin announced at the Dec. 3 meeting of the Student
Coordinating Council that new procedures will be followed in the voting on the Breakfast Program
Referendum to be held today and tomorrow. In response- to criticism of the SCC handling of previous
elections, Mr. Austin said that six voting booths would be acquired and that "fact sheets" would be handed
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out to those who had questions about the referendum.
The original referendum, held Nov. 20 and 21, enough to decide which matters arecontroversial,
was invalidated by the Student Judiciary when and warrant the use of votmg machines.
complaints of harassment and tampering were made.
The vote on the Breakfast Program was the
At that time there were election . tables set up on second election to be invalidated this semester.
Norton Hall , Acheson and the Ridge Lea Student Earlier, a freshman coordinator election was
Union. The Student Judiciary's hearing brought the nullified. "It is not our job to coordinate elections,"
charges of ballot-box stuffing at Acheson, adn Mr. Joseph said, "only to investigate improprieties.
medical school students voting at Norton. There was He added that the Student Judiciary had the power
also a charge of bias on the part of the poll-takers; it only to recommend changes to the SCC. Mr. Joseph
is believed that some of them were advising students made it clear that recommendations were made after all sides had been heard and an agreement had been
to vote "no" on the .referendum.
One member of the five-man Student Judiciary, reached on how the election should be held.
Yigal Joseph , said he was "unhappy with the lack of Voting booths rented
information." He said that one of the major
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to
the invalidation
and
In response
problems was that no one know how much money recommendations of the Student court, Bill Austin
would be left in the Student Association treasury if
the funds for the breakfast program were provided. ordered six voting booths to be rented for the
second attempt at the referendum. The machines
Those campaigning for the allocation of the $28,000 would cost about $25 apiece and the polling would
believed there would be $140,000 remaining, while take place in Norton Hall, Diefendorf, Acheson ,
those against the allocation believed that there sould
Tower and Goodyear dormitories, and at the Ridge
be only $30,000 left for other purposes.
Lea campus. The polls will be open from 9 :00 a.m.
Ballotsburned
to 5:00p.m ., with special hours for Ridge Lea and
The four members of the Student Judiciary the dormitories. In addition to these changes, Mr.
present at the hearing voted unanimously to Austin said that "each table will integrated, one
invalidate the election. The ballots, uncounted, were black, one white." Those who have questions will be
burned. Mr. Joseph stated that the student Judiciary referred to an information sheet printed by the
was calling on the SCC to publish "clear and Student Association.
objective" fact sheets, and also to have voting
The members of the SCC were told that there is
booths. He went on to state that the Student to be no "electioneering" at the tables. If there is
Coordinating Council "should be experienced any. then the table at which it occurs will be closed .

Polity votes to fund
breakfast program
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Editor's note: Late Tuesday
afternoqn it was announced that
the Polity meeting ofMonday had
been declared unconstitutional.
Therefore the matter of allocating
money for the BSU's Breakfast
for Children program will be
taken up at next Monday's Polity
meeting.
The Polity voted Monday to
help finance the Black Student
Union's breakfast program.
The program -- which feeds
approximately 140 black youths
every morning before their school
day begins -- is operating on a
$32,000 budget for this school
year. However, since part of the
school year is over, the program
will only be funded for the
remainder of the year. Student
Association President, Bill Austin
estimated the cost to be "about
$23,000."
In addition to funding by
Polity, Mr. Austin said: "I'll be
approaching the administration for
funds as well as local banks and
businesses now that Polity is on
record in favor of it (the breakfast
program)."

Emergency meeting
The allocation to the Black
Student Union was approved at a
special emergency meeting of the
Polity.
Mr. Austin, who appeared
pleased, said: "It (the Polity
meeting) was the first ...which
had a balance of the two major
forces on campus, the BSU and the
Students for Democratic Society."

Ad proposal defeated
Also, an attempt to buy a
full-page ad in the New Yark Times
was defeated when no one
appeared at the · microphones to
speak either for or against the
motion. Proponents of buying the
advertisement wanted to reprint
the cover of the October
Dimension, the monthly feature
magazine of The Spectrum.
Dimension dealt with American
militarism.
The
cover
photographically depicted the life
of a soldier from youth. The last
picture in the series showed the
soldier lying dead.