The Stetson Reporter

Annual Spring Election Opens Today In Chapel? 10 o'clock, With Nominations For Student Body Officers? Publication Heads Jht Stetson importer 62nd YEAR "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" STETSON UNIVERSITY NUMBER 23 Can Students Vote In City Election? ATTORNEY SAYS YES SHOWiv bluer ii.vj vjvti-i tiit cix.1. ion ruies set down in tne aixiueiit Association Constitution are four members of the Rules and Procedure Comrnjttee. Chairman Ted Grissett (seated left) points out the various offices to Helen Woo+en while committee members (left to right) Jack Inman and Joe Peel look over their shoulders. (Photo by Horace Heley) NO THIRD Pi\RTY CANDIDATES ANTICIPATED SAYS CHAIRMAN Nominations for the five offices of the 1949-50 Student Association and -mblication chiefs will be heard this morning at 10 o'clock in Elizabeth Hall auditorium according to an announcement by Ted Grissett, chairman of the Rules and Procedure Committee. Fred IT. Owen, president, will hear all nominations which will be entered on the student ballot to be voted on April 26. According to G-rissett, "This looks like one of the closest elections ever to be conducted here on campus. For once both parties, the All-Student and Stetson Parties, are well organized and offer the students some-high calibre candidates." When asked if there had been any indication of the possibility of a third party entering the student race, Grissett said he had no knowledge of such a movement. In the race for editor-in-chief of the Stetson Reporter the Rules and Proceedure chairman said that if all candidates—that have applied for the position are approved by the faculty publications committee, (Continued on Page S) Stetson Reporters Sold at Rollins The miracle of the year! The Stetson Reporter sold like hot- cakes on the Rollins campus last Saturday. Jack Fromberger and Robert Willis, both Sigma Phi Epsilon pledges, "volunteered" (part of fraternity pledge training) to be ambassadors of good will by selling Reporters to Rollins students. The boys began their mission at Rollins last Saturday morning, and during the day they sold sixty two past issues of this ear's Stetson Reporter at five cen/s a copy. The miracle was that they came back with all their teeth intact. Glee Club Concert Tonight, Eliz. Hall Professor Harold Giffen and the Stetson Glee Clubs will appear in Elizabeth Hall Auditorium tonight at eight o'clock. One of the special features of the Friday night concert will be the duet team of Jeane Harris and Bill Jones. Jeane and Bill, both of Bartow, will represent Florida Kiwanis at the Kiwanis National Convention this summer at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Also featured on the program will be a parody on the quartet from "Rigoletto" which is sung by John Everett, first tenor, Bob Auman, second tenor, Bill Jones, baritone and Dave Thomas, bass. Probably the outstanding choral numbers to be rendered by the Clubs will be Nobel Cain's mighty "Roll, Chariot," a negro spiritual which calls for great powBr as it builds to a resounding climax, and "Dark Water," a negro spiritual by James. Brundage, Michael, Fischer Picked As Publication Heads Unopposed candidates for the editors of the Hatter and Stetson Quarterly, and Business Manager of the Stetson Reporter were announced by the Faculty Publications Committee this morning. Taking over the editorship of the Hatter is Barbara Brundage, unopposed for the position Barbara, popular girl about campus and widely known in journalistic fields here, was a member of this year's Hatter staff. She is au- I thor of a column, "The Mad Hat- , i or," published weekly in the De- Land Sun News. She is drama writer for the Reporter and has played roles in Little Theatre plays. Picked by the committee to serve as ed'tor of the Stetson Quarterly for the remainder of this quarter and unopposed candidate for next year's Quarterly is Fred Fischer. Fred is an active member of the Little Theatre, drama and feature writer for the Reporter, .author of a column, "Back Stage," member of Theta Alpha Phi; Press Club and has served as associate editor of the Quarterly several quarters. Unopposed candidate for Business Manager of the Stetson Reporter is James Calvin Michael, Junior economics and business administration major. Michael has been Assistant Business Manager of the Stetson Reporter since the beginning of the year. He is from Sanford, and is a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon social fraternity. Press Club Picnic Supper Saturday Honors Pledges A picnic supper will be given by the Press Club in honor of its four new pledges, Roy Frye, Roy Swad- er, Ted Grissett and Bill Fisher. Saturday afternoon Hatter Business Manager Position Still Open Applications for Business Manager of the Hatter will be accepted at Dean Garwood's office until Tuesday Noon. This office will be filled by appointment of the Faculty Publications Committee since no applications wore received in time to be entered on the student ballot for spring elections. State Attorney Murray Sams Tells Opinion In Letter To Fred Owen By FELTON P. DAVIS, JR. x\s far as State x\ttorney Hurry Sams is concerned Stetson students, who meet the general requirements met by other voters are eligible to vote in thc coming DeLand primary for election of mayor and city commissioners. Sams' statement was made in a letter to Fred Owen, Student Association President, in answer to a recent letter by Owen staling that the students were confused by conflicting statements of De- J^and City officials and candidates for municipal offices in regard to thc rights and duties of those who are qualified to register and to vote in the Primary and General Municipal Elections. ■ Sams' letter said, "Tn my opinion every Stetson Student of the age of 21 years and upwards, who is a citizen of the United States, and who has resided and had his habitation, domicile, home, and place of permanent abode in thc State of Florida for one year, and the City of DeLand for six months preceding such primary or general election in said City is a legal resident and qualified elector of said City and entitled to register therein, and if he does register zX least 15 days before the date of said Primary or General Election he is owen qualified and entitled to vote in said elections. "Every person who is 21 years of age and stti juris has a right to choose his place of residence and as soon as a point of time is reached where residence and intent concur the legal residence or domicile is obtained. "Our Supreme Court has said that a legal residence or dom- icle may be acquired by one who coming from elsewhere actually lives here for the required period of time with the intention of permanently remaining here. In such case a residence or domicile by choice is established. "Further that thc residence of a party consists of facts and intentions and a "resident" is one who lives "in a place with no present intention of removig therefrom; the best proof of one's residence or domicile being where he says he is." BRITISH DEBATERS TANGLE WITH STETSON TEAM MONDAY NIGHT With wit and clever repartee, the men from Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, Denzil K. Freeth and George William Pattison, will debate Stetsonites, Elizabeth Flory and William Singleton, Monday, April 11, at 8:00 p.m. in Elizabeth Hall auditorium, in what promises to be one of the most entertaining and interesting contests Stetson has heard. The topic for debate, "Resolved: that it would have been better for mankind if tlie American revolutionaries had ■ stopped short of leaving the Briti'sh Empire," will be treated in a lighthearted and witty manner, says. Professor Richard C. Brand, debate coach. The debate will be. open to the entire student body and to friends in town free of charge. Tickets will be available on presentation of student and faculty activity tickets at the Stetson News Bureau office. The Englishmen, Pattison and Freeth, are seasoned speakers who have met twenty or more teams of the large universities in the East this season on their month's tour (Continued on Page 8)