University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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Whereupon President Stout would offer more ap¬ pointments and the procedure was repeated. Well, they not only refused Stout’s choices for the appointive posts, but they even pushed through a set of rules ‘ ' of parliamentary proce¬ dure,” which among other things provided that the senate could confirm its own selections for committee appointments without the consent of the president. These rules were drawn up and submitted by none other than the old “Governor” himself. After setting out the methods of procedure lor voting upon the president’s appointments on bloc, the new rules said:“.... any member of the senate may make a motion to consider for con¬ firmation the appointment of any individual offi¬ cer separate and apart from the complete list submitted by the president, and if the motion be seconded and carried, a further motion shall be entertained to confirm that appointment, and if that motion be seconded and carried, then that of¬ ficer shall be considered having been confirmed in his office and shall immediately proceed in the execution of the duties thereof.” Sounds like the “Governor,” doesn’t it? They were liberal enough that first day in and Wilfred Thorpe were appointed to the Ath¬ letic Council to replace Art Withers and Harold Brady. But that was all they did that first day in the senate, and “El Bosso” was irked no end. “Stormy” Lynch suggested he be appointed ser- geant-at-arms with the idea in mind that every time Alston opened his mouth he, “Stormy,” could smack it shut. Later in the year that same Lynch was at Alston’s side gunning for the New Dealers’ hides. The battle waxed hot in and out of the sen¬ ate meetings and finally Stout and Alston reached a compromise which gave Stout’s choice the cov¬ eted chairmanship of the social committee and split the rest of the appointments about evenly between the two parties. Russell Hughes, AGR and ardent New Deal¬ er, was confirmed as social chairman. He had been acting as temporary chairman all the time the senate fight was being carried on. The “rules of parliamentary procedure” were repealed and ‘‘El Bosso” again had a little power in his grasp. Gene Farmer, editor of the directory, assistant editor of the Traveler and sports editor of the Razorback, was deemed well enough versed in TOP ROW—Alston, Berry, Campbell, Chapman, DuBard, Henry, Holmes, Howell, Hudson. ROW TWO—Little, Mills, Rainey, Roebuck, Smith, Trimble, Tuck, Wilmuth. the senate to approve the election committee, and three appointments to fill vacancies. On the elec¬ tion committee, which supervises all student elec¬ tions, went Ernie Wright, FFA bigwig and a po¬ litical mate of Stout’s last year, Henry Wood, one f the Independent party’s inner circle, Jimmy Byrd, former editor of the Razorback and an In¬ dependent of long standing, Claud “Stormy” Lynch, an unaffiliated agri, Harold Kent, a Fay- tteville business student, and “Hank” Ford, Lambda Chi law student. Elsijane Trimble, a Ohi Omega, was appointed treasurer of the As¬ sociated Students to fill the term of Bernice Bar¬ nett, who did not return to school. Lloyd Woodell journalism to hold a position on the Publications board. Appointed with him were: John Ed Chambers, Kappa Sig, Nathan Gordon, Sigma Nu, and Jack Townsend, Sig Alph. A. B. Chapman was appointed to the senate to fill the term of Sam DuBose, junior represen¬ tative, who did not return last fall; and Otis McGraw was made sophomore representative to fill the place of Billy Joe Denton. Included on the social committee along with Chairman Hughes were Andy Ponder, R. T. Martin, Hilluard “Pete” Rogers, Talbert Bowman, Norman Smith, Lloyd Gibson, Arnold Adams, Jane Buxton, Donald Bea¬ man, T. H. Lynn, Nola Hardin, and Bill Scales. ( 27 )

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Student SenatoTi L (Enatt ed oCoud 34nd J2on( Ouen ”62 (Eio4l4loV ' Committeemen fppoLntmentii Bob Stout . President Alice Henry . Vice-President Phil Alston . Secretary Elsijane Trimble . Treasurer You remember last Spring, don’t you? How the election came out? The Independent party was sitting around adding up the gravy, because there was no other party in existence. Then, the BOB STOUT, Student President night after the Publications Board met and se¬ lected the candidates for each of the publica¬ tions offices (Gad, what a dismal night that was—raining, thunder . . . ), up popped a sem¬ blance of an organization that looked like it might be another party. That was down around that neighborhood where the AGR ' s and the Kappa Sigs live. Yes, the KA ' s were in on it, too. Gail Borden was the reason there. Well, talk about mushrooms! That was on Tuesday night and by ten p. m., Wednesday there was a pretty good looking party organized. They called it the New Deal and started scouting for the best man on the campus to run for Prexy of the Associated students. They had their publica¬ tions candidates—Borden, Locke, Kipple. No, not Pleitz, they were going to jduII an unheard of trick and back the Traveler editor of the other party because they thought he was the best man. The New Dealers just needed a man to run for President, someone they could center the party around. cs Were Heated They found him, all right! Lanky Bob Stout, from down in the basement of the PiKA house. Of course the PiKA ' s were in the Inde¬ pendent party then, but that was all right; for the New Dealers anyway. Came the election, came the returns. PiKA ' s quaked in their shoes. If they’d all voted a straight Independent ticket, like they claimed they did, it rnight have been a different story. Bob Stout won the President’s race by twelve votes. Naturally opponent Nathan Gordon called for a recount which only served to show that Stout really won by only ELEVEN votes. But no matter, he won, as did all that origi¬ nal group of publications candidates except little Jimmy Kipple. He went down in defeat to Bes¬ sie B., a good ole girl, and Bohlinger is now busi¬ ness manager of this, yearbook. What didn’t look so good for Stout, however, was the way his senate turned out. Even last fall vvhen we got back to school and the sororities voted all their transfer pledges in the Freshman elec¬ tion, Stout only got one more senate representa¬ tive that he felt he could count on. It later turned out that he couldn’t and besides the fel¬ low never came to a senate meeting anyway. The line-up against the president was just about six- to-one, and to top it all off there was Phil Al¬ ston, (‘‘Governor” or “Googlepuss,” as you will) sitting in there as secretary of the senate. REPRESENTATIVES — Arts and Science, Carolyn Rainey, Joella Berry; Education, Earline Upchurch Little; Law, P. K. Holmes; Agricul¬ ture, Virginia Wilmuth; Engineering, Mac Roe¬ buck; Commerce, Bill Campbell; Junior Class: A. B. Chapman, Marigene Howell, Robert L. Hud¬ son, Glenn Smith; Sophomore Class, Jimmy Du- Bard, Doris Mills, Otis McCraw; Freshman Class, Jack Tuck, Oggie Bolin. Even some of his enemies felt sorry for “El Bosso” when he faced a group like that. When he went in for the first meeting of the year to get his appointments approved, it looked like open season on presidents. Oh, not that every indi¬ vidual in the senate was trying to get him down. It was just the way the senate was acting as a whole. Procedure: Stout read a list of appoint¬ ments; asked for a vote upon their approval; the entire senate sat dumbly; until at long last “Gov¬ ernor” Alston arose, wishing to say a few words; after many words, Mr. Alsto n succeeded in in¬ forming the members of the Senate, either by di¬ rect statement or allusions, what the party want¬ ed. Usually it was what the party did not want. Then enlightened senate members betook them¬ selves to vote. NO, repeatedly the vote was NO. ( 26 )

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t Political Mess Scjuabb e Oaeu SocLa£ CkalTinaan And Committee M ctdiincd H ke T leu 4 nfke a££ Seme ten GUS THOMPSON . Gus Thompson Andy Ponder R. A. Martin Jane Buxton Hilluard Rogers Talbert Bowman Norman Smith . Chairman Nola Hardin Lloyd Gibson Arnold Adams Donald Beaman T. H. Lynn Bill Scales Headlines in the news I More notice than ever before was taken of the social chairman this year. Why? Because the campus politicians were all afraid every one else was going to cut their throats. Every man had a grudge to set¬ tle, and the Independent controlled student sen¬ ate, chapped at President Bob StouPs victory in the Spring election, seemed to take particular pleasure in fighting everything that he tried to do. So when Stout came up in the Fall and sug¬ gested that the senate appoint Russell Hughes, AGR and political colleague of StouPs, as chair¬ man of the Social Committee, the answer was NO! Emphatically No! But finally after suc¬ cessive senate meetings. Stout got his way. That is he got it on the chairmanship, because he prac¬ tically had to give away his frat pin not to men¬ tion half the other appointments to get Hughes appointed. That was ' way back in September when things were fairly quite along the political front. Aside from the little scrap over the appointments things were going pretty well. Stout got the man he wanted for the political plum job, social chair¬ man, and the politicians of both parties divided up the rest of the pits. But why all the fight over these jobs? Well, the chairman not only gets a little feather in his cap for holding the position, but there ' s a little remunerative consideration, too. Five bucks per student dance, it is most reliably reported. Look it up in the records. That ' s why the fellows are sometimes a bit reluctant to list dates for dances for every jerk-water organization, on the campus. It just cuts them out of a little revenue. Them? Why, the President of the Associated Students gets the same amount. One reason why he ' s so careful about who he appoints (or who the senate will appoint). The rest of the social committee doesn ' t do much for what it gets. Just adds a wee bit of prestige to the fraternity, sorority, or organiza¬ tion that committeemen belong to; they get their picture in the yearbook gratis (see cut if you don ' t believe us) ; and they all get in the dances, the student dances, free. There are about, say, 35 student dances a year, and at fifty cents a throw, social committee members save about $17.50, that is if they go to all of them. Of course the usual gang of ‘‘sweaters that seep into the dances take a little of the pleasure out of the knowledge that a fellow is getting in for noth¬ ing legally. No, the girls on the committee don ' t get gipped; when they have a date for a student dance, the date doesn ' t have to pay. That makes it easier to get dates, they say. JfucjkeiL tAjppolnted! Well, Russell Hughes got the first appoint¬ ment. But campus politics regained the public eye just before homecoming when ‘‘Governor Alston popped up in a senate meeting and accused him of graft. Charges were that Hughes had at¬ tempted to extort money from campus social or¬ ganizations in return for his permission for them to hold dances on certain dates. But it seems Mr. Alston didn ' t get up and make his charges until after Hughes had left school to take a job. And it also seemed that his reason for making the charges was just as an argument against the ap¬ pointment of Frank Rogers to the post. Rogers was Hughes ' roommate when he was in school. The senate refused outright to approve Rogers. Then Alston started on an investigation of the Hughes matter, the Traveler characteristic¬ ally stuck its neck in, and old grads came back to the campus to find the Homecoming issue splashed with stories of football and suggestions that dirty work had been going on at their old school. ( 28 )