University of California Santa Barbara - La Cumbre Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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Curious students and faculty members attended an SFPA sympathy rally tor Berkeley ' s Free Speech Movement, Forty-tour percent of the student body voted m the fall AS and class elections. A variety of posters and bumper stickers reflected student opinion. 25

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Political Issues Capture Student Interest Twenty-nine hundred students turned out to vote in the Octo- ber elections in which political contenders sought openings on Legislative Council and class government. Runoff elections were necessary for three positions. The Free Speech Movement uprising focused national atten- tion on the Berkeley campus. An administrative regulation for- bidding fund raising, traditionally carried on in the Sather Gate area, for politic a! and social activities on and off campus touched off the biggest repurcussions in the University ' s history. UCSB ' s matLire and responsible reaction to FSM was exemplified by the SI ' PA sympatlij- r.ill) in the Hyde Park area of campus. Proposition l-i, the controversial initiative which would amend the state constitution to out-law so called fair housing legislation was the most hotly debated issue prior to the state election. The national election, centered on the issue of extremism, evoked a variety of responses from students who overwhelmingly supported President Johnson in a mock election. MiNi-d reactions f;reeti--d televised cleitidn letur Utilizing the recently acquired teletype, KCSB staffers kept listeners in- formed of the latest election returns. 24

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Jackie Leach soliloquizes in Tesoro-Neblina ' s Sweejistakcs winning presentation, Behind John ' s Doors. In Slough 62, Sigma Phi Epsilon, second place winners, suffered a setback in distilling the slough because they had failed to file with ACB. First plate C;hi Omej?a gave Allen Sherman ' s Hello Mudder a new twist with a report on the many activities at I ' CSB. 26