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The hackeneyed concept of politics as the beggar’s circus was resurrected in all of its Roman glory Sunday night as the Federation of Students Council convened h-y; for a post-election free-for-all. After. four hours of verbal smorgasbord, there‘ emerged from the accrued mass of campaign skeletons, accusations, counter-accusations, and mud a recommendation voiced by David Robertson, Executive Assistant to the federation, that “the results of. the federation presidential elections be declared null and void”. L

This was brought to council in the form of a motion,and the vote was recorded. To the con- strenation of many present, the motion then inched through to acceptance on the strenght of a mere ten votes for to nine against. Somehwat piqued, by this turn of events, federation president Andy Telegdi called for another meeting of council within seventy-two hours to reconsider the motion. The gathering then fell apart like a roll of Delsey tissue in a bucket of water, and was adjourned hastily.

since- most members -did not know what it meant. Once this was explained, business manager and recording secretary Peter Yates was appointed chair- person, and the polemic com- menced. Radio Waterloo’s taping of the meeting, was also stopped at this point on request of a few members-another federation first. .

What emerged from the en: suing discussion was the question of just how valid the election results could be in light of so many alleged con- traventions of the rules that were set up for it. Duffy made the point that ‘ ‘since everyone has broken the rules, what we have to decide is whether or not we want to go through the whole thing again ’ ’ . He suggested that- since the infractions committed by each candidate effectively balanced out those of the others, things might easily be left as they were and that would solve the problem

had seen his campaign material torn down by avowed Telegdi supporters, one of these being Arts Society President Larry Batista. Batista, who was also present at the meeting, denied that he had done so. Assmann brought up the issue of the Coryphaeus, among other points, and the question j of *,Paul Dobrocky ‘s impartiality as a member of the Election Com- mittee, particularly in the case of the memo issued to the Engineering Society that was published in last Friday’s chevron. This point had been raised earlier in the evening, and Dobrocky now reiterated his claim that his duties as president of Engsoc could be differentiated from his duties on the election committee, and “that his im- partiality need only be required in the latter case.

‘rhe evening had started off innocuously enough, with- the

. first few items on the agenda being tucked away tidily. There was some- initial controversy over the inclusion of election appeals in the matters to be discussed, since the Election Commttiee had not met to draw up a report on the issue and bring forth recom- mendations. The time factor, with imminent council elections and a two week delay until the next meeting, was considered to be crucial in the end, and the decision was taken to let the appeals be heard.

The election report was read by Ann Knechtel, chief returning officer and head of the election committee. The results, as listed in last Friday’s chevron, were verified, and then the appeals

-were read in their entirety as submitted by each candidate before the counting began last Wednesday (see pages two -and three of this issue). After the recitation , motions to accept the report were bandied about, and a suggestion was made to move into Committee of the Whole so that the appeals might be heard and discussed more freely.

At this point, Tom Duffy, federation treasurer, eased into the Chair, and steered the meeting through a session of procedural w.rangling over what form the discussion should take. Under Duffy’s rules - of parliamentary proce’dure, thea assembly agreed finally that Committee of\ the Whole was a good idea. This is apparently not a common move for council,

Objections were raised im- mediately . Robertson stated that a new election should be called so that a precedent might be set to ensure the fairness of future elections by upholding the integrity of the procedures set up for this one.

After a bit more of this sort of debate, Tom Duffy reclaimed the chair and attempted to set up an arrangement whereby the two presidential candidates present, Andrew Telegdi and David Assmann, could elucidate upon their accusations concerning the election campaign, offer rebuttal, and be questioned by council After three attempts to take a vote, a consensus was reached, and .a time frame set up to allow

Scepticism was voiced in various quarters as to the validity of this claim. Ann Knechtel said that a member of the committee 6ught to refrain from exhibiting public bias towards a candidate no matter what his position was. Dave Robertson asked Dobrocky how he could possibly split himself down the, middle and take conflicting public stands on the same issue.

Dobrocky replied that he was sure that Robertson was very principled, but that “we must get back to the real world”. He denied that Engsoc had exhibited any bias in .its --treatment of campaign material on its bulletin boards, and pointed out that nowhere in his memo had he mentioned Telegdi’s name; he had only laid out some facts that he thought engineers should know, and . interpret for them- selves.

In his rebuttal, Telegdi dismissed -all of Assmann’s charges as “red herrings”, saying there were no basic issues among them. He discounted the claim that the Coryphaetis was brought out as part of his campaign material, stating that he had had nothing to do with it. Attendance at society meetings was all in

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keeping with his duties as federation president, and he had not used it for campaigning purposes. Telegdi countered the charge that his people had been removing Assmann’s posters with the statement that “more of my posters were down than up”, and that a lot of his material had also been defaced or removed.

Particular among his com- plaints was one concerning the “fact sheet” circulated by the “Concerned Students for a Fair Election”. Telegdi’s appeal included ~ a point by point refutation of the allegations made on the sheet, a refutation,. which he emphasized for those present, saying that they amounted to libel, and that he intended if he could to-sue Dave Robertson, its admitted author.

Robertson defended his purpose in writing the sheet, saying he. had wanted only to give credit where it was due to those who had w,orked for the federation in the past year. Telegdi said that he resented the implication that he had done nothing during his term as president when such was not the case.

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Such were the proceedings for most of the night. If all the protestations of innocence were to have been taken at face value, then-nobody had doen anything, the appeals were all groundless, and there was no point at all to the discussion. Suggestions to’ this effect were made at various stages of proceedings, but were not given much notice. Federation vice-president Steve Treadwell in particular seemed -- anxious to terminate the discussion, for reasons that remained unclear.

When Duffy finally declared an end to the talk and asked for recommendations, it was Treadwell who suggested that. council should vote to accept the election results. After a plethora of asinine suggestions were dismissed and Committee of the Whole dissolved, it was ,this recommendation that remained, along with Robertson’s move to declare the election results null and void.

The latter motion was the first to be voted upon by the nineteen voting members who had lasted

-out the night, and managed to find ten supporters who thought that the election procedures had been’. shown sufficiently questionable to warrant another presidential election.

Reactions were mixed: glee in some quarters, disgust in others, surprise in most, for the result was not an anticipated one. -A meeting of council was arranged hastily, for Wednesday night; Telegdi and Duffy said they would then attempt to have the motion rescinded. If this cannot .* be accomplished, then a new election committee wil1 have to be set up and nominations - opened again.

It was at this point that the meeting collapsed into confusion. Members began breaking quorum, Telegdi among them, assuming there was no point in continuing. ._ Speaker Myles Lawlor attempted to push through a quick motion for adjournment, which Shane Roberts protested, and an at- tempt was made to regain quorum. This failed, and the meeting:came to a messy con- clusion, presumably to be sorted out on Wednesday.

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On Sunday, February 17, the federation council iroted, in an unprecedented case, to declare the mecent i presidential elections null and void. The tote went ten for the motion and nine against, md immediately Telegdi announced that he was going to contest the decision and call another :ouncil meeting. On Monday, February 18. l’elegdi announced this sudden council meeting to Be held on Wednesday, February 20 at eight o’clock in the Student Services building. The ‘allowing are the statements of all the candid.ates which they submitted to the election committee md upon which the council based their decision of Sunday evening.

david assmann /’ This is meant as a list of points upon which we

challenge the conduct of the campaign conducted to promote the election of Andrew Telegdi. At such time as Students’ Council wishes to consider these points, we shall further detail our position. It is not done here at this time ( 1) so as to protect from public and other harrassment or unnecessary inconvenience the private i-n- dividuals concerned and involved as witnesses; (2) to allow for the possible termination of all election and campaign-related aqtivities with a minimum of antagonism and hostility, political and private, as may arise.

The following points are issued against the candidate A .P. Telegdi: 1) Campaign activity, at meetings of non- campaign workers; prior to the close of

.rnominations. 2) Posting of material in six buildings on campus on surfaces disallowed; this repeated even following our complaints. 3) The tearing down-of campaign material, on allowed surfaces by a publicly acknowledged member of A.P. Telegdi’s group. 4) The destruction, repeated on separate oc- casions of campaign material in Village I of a publicly -sympathetic associate of both Telegdi and a member of the election committee. 5) Coryphaeus as campaign material of a deceitful and misleading nature. 6) Misconduct of one member of the election committee, as a member of the election com- mittee, in publicly promoting the platform and

\campaign of Telegdi. 7) Deceiving the chief returning officer, a pur- poseful impedance of the functioning of the election committee in at attempt to circumvent the council-defined activity of the election committee. II

8) Misconduct of one member. of the election committee, as an officer of another organization, in allowing public preferential treatment of Telegdi’s campaign material; this in violation of his orgar&ation’s regulations, and after these regulations had been employed to remove and destroy campaign material of D. Assman. 9) Shared responsibility for the formation, dissemination, and enforcement of regulations;

by a public supporter of Telegdi as an officer of an undergraduate organization; these regulations being prejudicial and a direct hindrance to the public promotion of D. Assmann’s position as a challenge to an already publicly well-known Telegdi, these regulations being issued while in direct violation to the privilege of campaign posting granted by the superior authority of the university. 10) Several of these complaints were brought to the attention of the election committee and no reply on any of them came back to us. 11) Midway through the campaign we requested that a council meeting be called to discuss in- fractions of, the election rules-our request was denied.

baron loader The following points are ones that should be

investigated: 1. Paper on fair election 2. Memo from Paul Dobrocky who is on the election committee 3. Unfair campaigning

The Federation of Students was formed on the principle of providing a service to the students. Thus the federation president should be a person elected fairly by the student. The goal of the president in this election should be one of providing the student with a honest service for all. Since he is the representative of the students his goal should be one of helping the individual or group of individuals to define their needs and goals and to help them towards the attainment of these. At all cost this principle should be upheld.

The universities are the only place where an individual can obtain and practice the art of truth and knowledge. If we let these principles be corrupted then we/ are defeating the whole principle of being humanitarians.

Since the president is the elected figure’ of the students, he should inform the students of his intentions. He should be honest enough to stand for issues which pertain to all the students and not use the corruptive means to obtain power. The only person who loses in this situation is the

person’s ambitions but for all the students. . I’m asking . the election r committee to in-

vestigate all aspects of this election so that the students get a fair shake.

I do not wish the election committee to con- sider me a poor loser- but one who’s interest is that of the students to have a fair election. Thank you for your time.

andrew telegdi* - This is an official protest regarding the PRESIDENTIAL Elections. A. Regarding the mailouts I would like to draw your attention to Procedures Governing Elec- tions and By-Elections. D The Election Committee Shall *

Establish a mail-out to all co-operative students enabling them to vote and including, if desired by the candidates, a statement of each candidate’s campaign platform submitted to the committee in confidence. When I submitted/my mail-out to A. Knechtel she read it and stated that the mail-out was not going out. She further gave the statement that was submitted i to *her in confidence to -Dave Assmann.

The statement I submitted was found ac- ceptable by the committee with only A. Knechtel protesting. Even though it was my right to send

bias. I strongly feel tha all the students on camp the purpose of giving ar one candidate. Even the. the editorial in the Che not protesting that. ‘ I do protest however Head. Thg information g I protest putting the n contributed to the pape implicating that they .a

I further protest the Waterloo ad.

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The strongest protest titled. Setting the Fac’;s credited to Concerned 1 Honest Election. The a son.

The sheets were distri 12th in the afternoon ( paigning, in order to rr The sheets were distribt people on Campus by workers.

I will go through thl with them individually. 1. The students phone because someone was didn’t do it.

It should be noted thas gave the initial push to 1 the first issue. B. Bake listings together but I Council Meeting of Septc that I will not pay M. 1 sell the advertising and advertising.

The phone book that done almost in total by 2. The’main reason I su two people for the record shown to my satisfactio two people would not ( ficient but would also pa the two payed for itself reduced. I also got the A their record business at t their bins valued at s available to the Federat 3. Entertainment

I initiated the hirir tertainment. I further he other projects --. for tl ministration notified the smoking and drinking pc Lighthouse concert it Treadwell who attended administration. We thr e\ energy behind the crowd faras to consult with Dr. clinical psychologist reg 4. External Relations

It should be noted tha was my original idea. $1 from May 1st to the en

Radio Waterloo it sh recipient of OFY grant al for the summer. 5. Handbook

I was instrumental ii supported the funding. ended up in debt I helped both from students. Coun 6. Society-Federation cc

The Federation sponst conference was held- mail attended numerous socie year and did almost all ference to the extent th licence holder.

‘It should be remembe kissing that went on regal as the Federation was con referendum was held reg

‘being compulsory or vol. _ I do not feel that WI societies when we need tl at -other times. 7. Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest was held f( campus. Bd. of Entertain was to hold the event bu The event was a first on 1 and complexity.

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he Chevron was a total newspaper funded by should not be used for

ldue advantage to -any i I feel what went into n was immoral: I am

write up in the Mast !n was slanderous and es of the people who mder the Mast Head roved of the content. eading to the Radio

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iave deals with a sheet &ght. The sheet was tdents for a Fair and 1or was Dave Robert-

ted Tuesday February the last day of cam- e rebuttal impossible. 1 to all residences and

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lelped ’ in putting the aw your attention to ber 11th when I stated ;man a commission to undertook to get the

\ me out this term was myself. lorted the hiring of the lop was because it was that the hiring of the y make the store ef- ‘or itself. The hiring of ecause shrinkage was ninistration to give up 1 Book store and make era1 hundred dollars n. I

of Arthur for En- XI Art in concerts and

Board. When ad- ?deration about the no :y 48 hours before the was myself and S. e initial meeting with 2il our time as well as ntrol policy. I went as T. Fenz world reknown ding crowd control.

10 hire Shane Roberts ne Roberts was hired of September. Id be noted was the ut 8 people were hired A

hiring Shane. I also When the handbook ) get further financing 1 and Administration. ference ’ ?d society I Federation r due to my efforts. I

meetings in the past he work for the con-

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d the amount of ass- ilg the societies as far trned in 1972 when the rding* Federation fees ltary,. , should only use the

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the first time on this ent had no choice if it to nest it in the C.C. mpus in terms of size

It should be notd that for the first time we ran the event it was extremely well run. It was probably the best run eventin the K.W. area. We admit to mistakes being made but considering the magnitude of the undertaking the event was a success. \

The fiscal breakdown was a follows:

Net Loss $6,800 ’ 2,000 mugs for future use 1,200 turnkeys

Leaving a Loss $3,600 ’

The rationale behind not counting the $1,200 paid to turnkeys as a loss was due to the ‘inadequate budget reviewed by the Campus Centre Board. The $1,200 saved ‘by, the Campus Centre Board allowed for more money to be available for programmes in the Campus Centre. I further assert that while I worked at Oktoberfest free, most of the critics of the event sat around en- joying themselves. 8. Vending Machines

In the summer S. Treadwell and myself met on numerous occasions regarding the food store and the vending machines. In the summer we operated Federation Snacks until we were to close.

We further initiated the purchase of kaiser buns in the society outlets by getting them in- valved.

We further talked with Bill Deekes and Bob Moody regarding the increase of items provided by the-vending machines. It is hoped that some of the prices will be decreased. 9. A project on Housing

Last spring while still president elect I got together a OFY application with the hope that a group of people would be able to alleviate the housing problem. The OFY application was- unfortunately turned down.

During July and August two people were hired to do a survey of the housing-listed by the ad- ministration. I sat in a number of interviews and helped them with things like getting them a typist. I further got administration to put up close to half the funding towards the housing study.

In August and September Treadwell and myself set up housing offices in the Federation office and the Campus Centre in the evening hours as well as on weekends. The purpose was to help people who were seeking accommodations. We provided them with phones as well as listings, maps of the city- and bus routes.. I spent a con- siderable part of my weekend in the housing office.

The Forum on housing was held in early Oc- tober. I not only initiated the Forum but also got all the people to appear. People like realtors, MPs, and MPPs, Burt Matthews, lawyers and the city clerk. The forum was well attended and cost less than around $60. Because of the Forum we realized that if the housing problem was to be alleviated it would have to be done by the Federation.

I further started up the Board of Grievances. It was my hope that the Bd. would work on the housing problem. The board after it got started decided it was not interested.

I sent a letter to all members of Students Council the executive and the Presidents of. the Societies asking for help in starting a task Force in student housing. The first meeting was at- tended by Lynn Solvason, John Morris and myself. The next meeting held this year was attended by 8 people. Our immediate goals are to complete a OFY application form to get fiscal help.

I futher notified coop informing them of the OFY grants and offering help in doing a OFY application. I feel qualified in this area because of the considefable time.1 spent as a member of the LIP advisory group. The LIP advisory group recommended the allocations of funds. 10. Parking and Towing

During the summer I informed council that I found a person John Shipside ex-planning student who would co-ordinate a survey. The plan was that a group of student would become in- volved in the project in .the Fall term. Due to numerous problems the group didn’t start the survey until this ‘term., The fact that’the survey is underway was a direct result of my initiations. 11. Permanent Pub

It was mainly due to my constant pressuring of Art Ram and various members of the Board of

Entertainment that the pub was started. I even went as far as to state to Art that if Bd. of En- tertainment did not hold the Pub, the Bd. of Grievances would. I continually reassured Art that the pub would not be’a fiscal disaster.

I conferred with-Art extensively regarding the pub and hopes for a permanent one. I resent the implication of the Chevron and the sheet on setting the Facts Straight as far as why we got the licence and no one else. /

The new legislations under the L.C .B .O. has nothing to do with the present pub just as the lack of paid security guards has nothing to do with the upcoming L .C .B .O. regulations.

We have no security guards because we proved to the administration that we could control our events.

As far as the permanent pub is concerned under the new regulations the university would hold the licence but we would be the ones running the pub. The administration and the Federation have to be in agreement as far as the application to the LCBO is concerned, otherwise no licence.

For the first time the Federation is almost on an equal basis with administration as far as the pub’is -concerned. We can get what we want but we can very ea..ily blow it also.

Ram and myself met with administration including Dr. Matthews on numerous occasions. It is further essential that we reach a consensus soon. 12. Telegdi who .has done absolutely nothing

In light of the things I ,did the above statement is nothing but, slander.

The Board of Directors under the corporation charter is to act when a councilmeeting can not be convened. To the best of my recollection we called a Board of Directors meeting only three tomes.

Bd. of Directors meeting was called during the spring to deal with the sales tax issue. Council ratified that decision. Point of clarification 5 board members were present.

Bd. of Directors meeting was called in early September regarding the Guess Who concert. A decision had to be made at that time whether the Guess Who concert was going to be a promoter I concert or a private promotion.

At the meeting I put a motion before the Bd. of Directors that the concert be done by the Federation: I stated that the student body would benefit if the Federation promoted the concert. Art felt that the show would be a bust but my predictions proved accurate in the end. There were once more 5 members present.

A Board of Directorsmeeting was called during Oktoberfest. The meeting was called because a member of Radio Waterloo contravined the law regarding -broadcasting Radio Waterloo taped a phone conversation with Art Ram without in- forming Art.

Art was going to report Radio Waterloo and the station could have been closed down. At this Board meeting we only had 4 members because one of the members Dave Chapley quit school.

Regarding the workings of Students Council this year we had more meetings than ever before and have never missed quorum. Even though members of Councilwere not as involved this year in the workings of the Federation of Students they have made decisions.

I resent the slander thrown at me by the sheet. I resent the slander thrown at council.

I now call your attention to the following policy passed by this years Students Council at the last meeting by Students Council January 8th.

Procedures governing Elections. and by- Elections.

_ Elections Committee Shall Cast all decisions as to unfair campaigning (i.e.

Salacious mudslingings) As we all know the communication between the

Federation and the Student body leaves a lot to be desired. It does not help when we get misrepresented in our official Federation paper. - But to deliberately misrepresent facts and to resort to slander and have this done by people inside the Federation is inexcusable. The facts get totally twisted snd the student body confused.

I If it is the case that Dave Robertson or some one from the Assman Camp made up the “setting the facts straight sheet” and had their people to distribute it then I call for Assman’s disqualification.Who are the real sponsors? Who are the-concerned Students for a Fair and Honest Election? In all honesty Robertson, Roberts and the others involved could not possibly be serious.

The sheet was not under the guise of a Chevron Editorial. It was a deliberate malicious slan- derous statement.

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