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

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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

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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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lim Mildon-WHS C1CCtCd Cdiml' Of UICUGHQCF in HH jim fccntcr of left hand picturcj confers emergency session of the Board of Publications the with Cm-Q1 Shipc KNOWS mmol- 1-iff1,Q,md second week in September, following the resignation Craig Geo,-gc cadvcrlismg mLmu,,cf LC,-L J g . of Mahmoud Abouzeid, who was elected in May 1963, By Steve Cook Cater Reporter jim Mildon, editor of this year's Golden Gater, is a writer before all things. But, he says, I am interested in communicating. There is a difference between that and just writing. I don't like essays that don't go beyond one person. The purpose of writing is to communicate with a large group of people. jim, at 28, is the old man in the Gater office. He freely admits to this. Running his hand through his thinning blond hair he explains his comparative old age: I didn't start college until I was 21 because of a tour of service in the fU.S.D Army. And then I quit again when I was 22-lf2. jim quit because he got married. Marie is his wife's name. About her, he says: If it wasn't for her I'd be up in Reno right now, dealing a 21 game or working the crap tables. When he quit school he went to work in the biggest little city in the world, repairing slots, dealing 21 and working the craps and Keno games. To this date he claims to be the best Keno writer in the world. QA Keno writer copies the tickets marked by the bettorsj. jim worked in Reno one year before, at his wife's prodding, he quit and re- turned to school. jim says he has been able to put himself through college by writing free-lance stories. His most profitable market has been the men's magazines Cavalier , Rogue , Gentle- men , Caper , Lace Undies , and so on. He says he has always written fact articles for these magazines: As long as what I write is legitimate, he says, what do I care if they want to sandwich it in between some nude tomato and a car blowing up. The stories Iwrite don't have to go into the girlie maga- zines, he says That's a market just like any other. The reason why others don't write in these magazines is be- cause they can't. jim says that he has taken some cre- ative writing classes here, but they always sent all my stories back, saying they weren't esoteric enough. I don't want to write for a limited group of people. When he graduates this june, jim wants to continue free-lance writing. At present, he's free-lancing for The California People, a Sunday section in the SF Examiner. He took thejob as editor for the Gatcr because I had some ideas and I :vantcd to improve it. Also, it's an invaluable experience to be the editor of adaily newspaper - possibly a one-in-a-lifetime chance. It's a full time job. jim says he brings his books to school every day and usually ends up not cracking them. If it's not one thing demanding my atten- tion, he says, it's ten thousand others. But that's what the job is all about, and it's very satisfying. The Gater, as a college newspaper, is an exceptionally fine learning experi- ence, he says. The students run the paper, it is their responsibility. STATE is unique in that there is very little in- terference. We get a lot of advice, but it's always up to the editors to make the final decision. Other schools just wish they had our set up, he added. the editor is an author is a keno writer