San Francisco State University - Franciscan Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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STATE gets out the vote Elections at STATE are some times dull, dry events, but gen eralities cannot apply to the elec tion held duringthe Fall semester After final returns were in and John Travins ky and Phyllis Thomp Repres entat ives , an opposing can voted in the election. 'W The basis of his complaint was that the voting machines were not locked so that only freshmen could vote for freshmen. Heiges claimed that upper classmen also voted for frosh candidates, which an actual count of ballots proved. Graduate representative. 9? son were elected Freshmen Class didate, Ken Heiges, presented sufficient evidence to the AS Judicial Court to show that there were not enough safeguards taken to insure that only Freshmen The AS judicial Court then placed an injunction invalidating the election ofMiss Thompson and Travinsky on the grounds cited. A date was set for another election The outcome: John Travinsky and Phyllis Thompson were once m.ore elected Freshmen Representatives Unopposed candidates who Won Were: Curt Firestone, Business Representative, Aditya Mukerji, HLL Rep, Norm.an Birkenstock, Rep-at-large, Semiranis Shabbus ,

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' - - yi 5.1, Wit, ' f fl , 7,,,.,,g ,SV ki A, 1 V , I In , YQ Q K 'QF A A I M ,M ..,. .qu - my U The Budo Club brings to STATE a part of the ancient oriental culture. Budo, or the way of the warriors , contains within its concept the martial arts: judo, Karate, Iko-do Gudo with advanced techniquesj, Ken-do ffencingb, and Kyu-do Qarcheryl. At STATE only the two most popular forms, judo and Karate, are taught by the Budo Club, under the sponsor, jack Yuen, assistant professor of business. The Goju-school of Karate, first es- tablished in japan by Gogen Yamaguchi, s taught to the one-hundred twenty nembers by his son, Gosen Yamaguichi, president of the club. To master the many different posi- tions and forms demanded by Karate, one needs the agility of a contortionist. To get into the unusual positions called for, the members perform daily exer- cises requiring stamina and physical and mental vigor. During the fall semester, the first Karate ranking tournament was held at STATE, one of the few colleges in the country where Karate may be learned. 20 O X A' T 4? A .. it if y f gg t K ik X 1 Many promotions in the various de- grees of white and brown belt were given: the highestwent to Teru Kawooka, who won a first degree black belt. Other officers of the club are Didier lloy, vice -pres identg Myron Chan, secretary-treasurer, David Charles and Hal Abercrombie.

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Shriver ca ptivates STATE STATE students were exposed to the New Frontier's provocative brand of charm Wednesday, October 9, when President Kennedy's brother - in - law, R. Sargent Shriver, Peace Corps direc- tor, spoke here. Shriver was on a recruiting tour of twelve California colleges and univer- sities. The director pointed out that the U. S. can maintain a corps of 10- l5,000 persons. The controlling fac- tor is how many we can get to volun- teer, stressed Shriver. Shriver punctuated his speech with anecdotes and quips about the corps and completely won over a cheering, laugh- ing crowd of students in the Main Audi- torium. He was even more of a hit in an intimate Gallery Lounge talk where, among other indications of hero worship , a covey of Freshmen girls mobbed him.. Swarms of young people strained to get a closer look at the dark and hand- some man with the romantic, humani- tarian title. We said people we sent overseas would live just like local people. Our critics said this would never work... that this was a big joke. But the joke was on them, Shriver told his audi- ence. We also said it would cost so much money and that is what it has cost. Shriver said the cost per annum for each volunteer overseas is exactly fB9,079. The original estimate was f159,000. The Peace Corps started 2-U2 years ago and we pledged then to do certain things. Now, 2-U2 years later, we've done those things. . . and that's very un- usual in government, summed up Shriver. As he sipped a cool drink in the Gal- 1eryLounge, one student asked ifit was- n't true that many governments were not satisfied with American intrusions. Shriver replied, smiling all the while, Only Indonesia , where the largest Com - munist party outside the Soviet bloc demonstrates against our efforts. ,Q President Dodd greets Shriver in the Gallery Lounge. 4? M. in fi